Our camp runs for 8 hours/day, 5 days/week for 5 weeks during summer vacation. Our staff is made up of a full-time director (who holds a teaching license) and 2 full-time counselors. Our part-time staff includes a morning counselor, guidance counselor, lifeguard and gardener. Our program administrator assists during the 5-week summer camp as needed. Camp activities include:
- Daily breakfast and
lunch meals prepared by Mary Johnson Children's Center's cook
- Daily afternoon snack prepared by camp staff and a small group of campers
- Shopping trips for snack and cooking class ingredients
- Gardening at Mary Hogan School and Hannaford Career Center
- Cooking classes with UVM Extension and Hunger Free Vermont, including ingredients to take home to recreate a meal for their family
- Weekly pizza decorating for campers to take home to share with their families
- Daily swimming at the town pool (except on field trip days)
- Outdoor recreation activities, including kayaking and swimming at Lake Dunmore
- Indoor recreation activities, including yoga, Zumba, rock climbing, African dance and cooperative games organized by staff
- Field trips, including ECHO, indoor rock climbing, Lake Monsters baseball games, berry picking, Carillon Boat Cruise, local fire department/police station/ambulance station, local library
- Attend Festival on the Green "Brown Bag Lunch Series"
- Hands-on science projects led by staff
- Art and craft projects led by staff, including paper-mache, beading, tye-dye, flower pot painting
- Community Service, including building bird houses for local elderly homes, visiting local nursing homes, and participating in small group activities with residents
- Educational Presentations: Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF), Vermont Institute of Natural Science-Raptor Show
- Literacy: Read-aloud time by counselor or silent reading by campers
