Summer+Camps

For the last six years of our co-op, I started out each year with a 2-day summer camp that gave the kids a chance to get back together after the summer, have fun, and learn something that they could use to understand the topics we would be discussing in the next year.

Year 1: Archaeology Field School (for learning about pre-history) Year 2: Spice Merchant School (for learning about life in the late middle ages) Year 3: Pirate School/Underwater Archaeology (for studying age of Exploration) Year 4: Explorers of the Interior (for studying the 19th century) Year 5: International Spy Training Camp (for studying the 20th century) Year 6: The Professional Prognosticator Summer Camp (not yet uploaded)

I planned the camp activities but was by no means in it alone. The moms all helped me pull things together, and provided food and grunt work so I could do all the fun stuff. My husband figured out how to do all the things I envisioned and made sure that things would work on the day—and he hung around to trouble-shoot and take video. My kids had to make sure the house was clean enough for people to sleep on the floor in various rooms. So it really took a whole “village” to make these camps happen.