MOCO - Camp with academics - thinking ahead for summer 2014

[Anonymous]

Wondering if there is a camp in MOCO (close in) with some light academics for summer 2014 - not this year. Child loves his current camp - water fights, jello wars, lots of outdoor silly fun, but after two weeks he is expressing a desire to keep up with academics over the summer.

In a perfect world, I would lovingly craft summer academic activities to help him stay where he wants to be - it is really child driven. But between both parents working full time, long commutes and swim team, it is not really happening. So, we will hobble along this summer, but assuming he has the same disposition next year, perhaps during the summer of 2014 - we can find a camp with some "light academics" - to try for a few weeks. Not anything intense - just something to satisfy his desire to keep making progress over the summer.

Long story short, since we are paying an arm and a leg for camp, maybe we can find one that has both fun activities and some light academics. This is child directed - he has a vision of where he wants to be but does need a little help getting there. So a camp that has fun traditional activities but also some academics would be a good fit for at least part of the summer.

[Anonymous]

You're wanting something full time? Stone Ridge has this. It's open to boys and girls but it's a girls school during the year so I don't know what percentage of campers are boys. MoCo itself has a catalogue of summer programs but they're only part time. Check at the county library in the lobby, there are always a lot of catalogues and flyers for academic camps. If you find other options, please post back, I'd be interested in knowing about more options too.

[Anonymous]

McLean School Summer's Edge program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if there is a camp in MOCO (close in) with some light academics for summer 2014 - not this year. Child loves his current camp - water fights, jello wars, lots of outdoor silly fun, but after two weeks he is expressing a desire to keep up with academics over the summer.

In a perfect world, I would lovingly craft summer academic activities to help him stay where he wants to be - it is really child driven. But between both parents working full time, long commutes and swim team, it is not really happening. So, we will hobble along this summer, but assuming he has the same disposition next year, perhaps during the summer of 2014 - we can find a camp with some "light academics" - to try for a few weeks. Not anything intense - just something to satisfy his desire to keep making progress over the summer.

Long story short, since we are paying an arm and a leg for camp, maybe we can find one that has both fun activities and some light academics. This is child directed - he has a vision of where he wants to be but does need a little help getting there. So a camp that has fun traditional activities but also some academics would be a good fit for at least part of the summer.

Sidwell