BOA Summer Camp 2022

Reading Program:  The Superkids Summer Camp curriculum offers a comprehensive review of the reading and writing skills acquired throughout kindergarten as well as enrichment opportunities that will keep our participants excited and ready to enter their first grade language arts programs with confidence. Children will develop their skills as strategic readers through a variety of activities designed to strengthen comprehension.

Math Program:  Our math skills program will sharpen grade level math concepts and beyond. The math summer curriculum offers a variety of practice and hands-on activities that will build upon the foundational mathematic skills acquired during kindergarten. Participants will enjoy developing  their number sense in a variety of ways including working with place value, money, telling time and computation.

Writing Program: First grade students will concentrate on creative writing, with an emphasis on forming strong sentences.  They will learn brainstorming using a web as a pre-writing activity.  Students will write about different subjects related to the reading program.  

Reading Program: Students will focus on various topics in high interest readers from Houghton Mifflin Summer Success and After the Bell reading programs.  Students will continue developing skills such as making connections, reading fluency, making predictions, asking questions while reading and comprehension.  We will further explore topics using videos, books and hands-on activities. 

Math Program:  Using Houghton Mifflin's Summer Success Math program, students will sharpen their grade level math skills and beyond.  Each day students will warm up with daily math practice and then reinforce concepts with videos and games.  Topics include multi-digit addition, multi-digit subtraction, problem solving, money, telling time, geometry, fractions, graphing, place value and multiplication.  

Writing Program: Each session, writing topics will be integrated into the reading theme.  Students will write individual assignments to enrich and expand their writing skills and ability.  Each session will include creative and directed writing. 

Reading Program:   The 4th and 5th grade students will read a variety of literature.  The texts will be read for detail and understanding main ideas and various literary elements.  Students will continue to build foundational reading skills, improve comprehension and create projects as a culminating reading activity.  

Math Program:  Our math curriculum will sharpen grade level math concepts and beyond.  Hands-on practice, word problems, real world application and computation concepts are practiced on a daily basis with an emphasis placed on speed and accuracy.  Introduction to algebraic concepts will be covered in this program.  

Writing Program: Students will concentrate on creative writing and formal writing structure with an emphasis on multiple paragraph essay and report writing.  Students will work on one writing project per session which focuses on a specific element of writing and incorporates the seven traits of writing.  This will help students build confidence in their skills as a writer.  

Whether it's the extreme cold of space, the extreme heat of the desert, or the extreme dark of the deep ocean….life finds a way to exist.  During this camp session we will "visit" all of these places and more to discover what it's like to live life as an extremophile.  Come learn and model deep sea creatures, desert dwellers, and even imagine what extraterrestrials might be like through hands-on activities and S.T.E.A.M. projects. 

What lived on this planet before humans?  Explore ancient worlds during the reign of the biggest animals ever to walk the earth.  In this session come explore ancient seas, mountains, and plains with fun and engaging hands-on projects.  Campers will be able to touch and observe real live fossils and make their own "fossils" to take home from camp.  

Explore the lives of pirates and buried treasure with this fun and immersive camp session.  Follow secret maps to search for treasure at camp, and make your own buried treasure to take home!  Each day will bring a new adventure in the form of hands-on science, craft, and movement activities; just like on treasure island.

Calling all animal lovers!  Campers in this session will enjoy learning everything about animals - from the very tiny soil rotifer to the humongous blue whale (and everything in between).  We will explore and observe animals in this session first hand and through video; making models, playing games, learning and having fun all the while.