CSD Teacher-Led “Summer Enrichment Camps”
Decatur Metro | May 17, 2010From the CSD website…
Summer Enrichment Camps! There are still spaces available in camps taught by our own CSD teachers! Sign up your child today! For more information see: http://www.cys.decaturga.com Playbook March 10 Phone: 404-378-1082 404-377-0494
The following CSD teacher-led camps are held at Clairemont Elementary and still have spaces available: June 7-11
- Camp Wanna Cook-a-lot | 9:00-12:00 | 4-5 year olds | taught by Dana Kinney, DHS Culinary Arts teacher
- Totally Awesome Technology, Beginners | 9:00-4:00 | 6-12 year olds | taught by 4 Glennwood teachers: Marie Tingle (4th grade), Colleen Dunbar (Art teacher), Laconia Massaquoi (Music and Links teacher) and Steve Bartl (media specialist)
- Spanish Camp I | 9:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Luis Mercado and Yunilda Vargas, RMS Spanish teachers
- Culture Club | 1:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Courtney Hartnett, Oakhurst Links teacher
- Who’s That Crawling? | 9:00-12:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Nancy Woodley, Winnona Park Art teacher
June 14-18
- Totally Awesome Technology, Advanced | 9:00-4:00 | 6-12 year olds | taught by 4 Glennwood teachers: Marie Tingle (4th grade), Colleen Dunbar (Art teacher), Laconia Massaquoi (Music and Links teacher) and Steve Bartl (media specialist)
- Spanish Camp II | 9:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Luis Mercado and Yunilda Vargas, RMS Spanish teachers
- Ends of the Earth | 9:00-12:00 | 4-5 year olds | taught by Kristin Karably, Links teacher at Glennwood
June 21-25
- Desert Adventures | 9:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Kristin Karably, Links teacher at Glennwood and Tabitha Wiedower, 3rd grade teacher at Oakhurst
- Stitches | 9:00-12:00 | 7-14 years olds | taught by Courtney Hartnett, Links teacher at Oakhurst and Amy Radford, Art teacher at Oakhurst
- For the Birds | 9:00-1:00 | 7-10 year olds | taught by Nancy Woodley, Art teacher at Winnona Park
- Meet the Masters | 1:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Nancy Woodley, Art teacher at Winnona Park
- Camp Wanna Cook-a-lot | 9:00-12:00 | 5-14 year olds | taught by Dana Kinney, DHS Culinary Arts teacher
June 28-July 2
- Music and Games from Around the World | 1:00-4:00 | 5-8 year olds | taught by Laura Deming, School Counselor at Oakhurst and Glennwood
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These CSD-led camps tend to be awesome. I highly recommend them. Unfortunately, a lot of them cluster in the same time periods. There’s more of them in June than July and more of them are half-day in the morning than full day or half-day in the afternoon which makes it hard for working families that have to put two halves together for a full day of care for their children.
Thanks Karass!
We have to work around the cleaning schedule and for the system and leave time for teachers to set up their rooms, therefore we clustered all the teacher-led camps in June at Clairemont. Four weeks of awesome camps!
I forgot to list Dana Kinney’s Camp Wanna-Cook-a-Lot for 5-8 year olds June 14-18, 9:00-12:00.
Understand. But if some of these great camps don’t get enough enrollment it may not be that folks don’t appreciate them but that the camps are competing with one another for the same time slots. And some families may have to skip a camp that they’d love but doesn’t come with a counterpart for the afternoon for the same age group at Clairemont.
I’m not even mentioning a couple of the camps to one of my children who would be heartbroken to know that they are missing them. But they conflict timewise with another priority choice. Meanwhile, there were other weeks in the summer where we would have loved more good choices.
Of course, if Mary Poppins would have shown up at LSOS like she promised, we probably would have worked all this out with a spoonful of sugar and she would have transported the children by umbrella whereever they needed to be this summer. Maybe next summer if the children write a good ad for a nanny….
Agree that there was a lack of 1-4 camps this summer, which would have nicely complemented the many wonderful 9-12 camps. I know it’s hard to cover all the bases and I’m sure they work diligently at providing a variety of camps for a variety of ages, but being able to combine these half-day camps is great when it works out!
One of my sons did Totally Awesome Tech for beginners last year and absolutely loved it. He can’t wait to go back for the advanced session this year.
Anyone else out there wishing for more camps for middle schoolers? I’d love some half-day camps my kid could walk to – get her out of the house and away from the screens for a while.
Yes! But CSD tried camps for middle schoolers a few years ago and not enough kids signed up. Doesn’t Decatur Rec have some 1/2 day camps for young teens? Check the Playbook.
Here is another place that has half day camps for middle schoolers. Don’t know where you live in Decatur but it is a couple of blocks south of
Decatur – http://www.siyehglass.com/resources/SiyehSummerCamp2010info.pdf