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Summer Camp 2011
Want to have a REAL.WILD.SUMMER. of fun? Sign up for Adventure Camp and spend the week learning all about animals and nature. Age-appropriate games, stories, crafts and animal encounters are part of each camp. We offer week-long camps concentrating on specific themes with creative learning experiences in a positive, nurturing, and fun environment. This year we are offering two exciting week-long camp sessions for campers entering kindergarten - 6th grades, and back by popular demand, two sessions of our Jr. Zoo Crew for campers entering 7th – 8th grades. Campers will be placed in an age appropriate camp session determined by his/her date of birth.
Registration begins March 1, 2012.
Entering grades K-6
Monday – Friday: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
$220/members; $260/nonmembers
Entering grades 7 & 8
Jr. Zoo Crew
4days: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
$240/members; $285/nonmembers
Most children love to go hiking in the woods, skip rocks on a river and camp under the stars. Do your children know how to have fun in nature without getting lost, stung or developing a rash? Join us this summer at the Zoo where children can explore and practice age appropriate nature survival skills like how to identify safe plants and animals, find water and build a shelter. Each day children will learn a skill needed to survive in the wild as well as visit animals to learn how they survive in the deserts, forests, mountains and oceans of the world. At the end of the week your child will have a greater appreciation of what it takes to survive in the wild world and the knowledge to explore that world in a safe and adventurous way.
You drink it, bathe in it, travel on it and love to jump in it when it’s hot outside. Water is the most essential element to life on Earth. Come join us this summer and explore how wildlife from around the world adapts to live with and without water. Learn how an African lungfish can survive in a burrow without water, how much water an elephant drinks daily and how an addax can survive in the barren deserts of northern Africa. We will also conduct age appropriate experiments that illustrate the unique and amazing qualities of water.
Think you want to be a zookeeper? Well here’s your opportunity to go behind the scenes and experience what it’s like to be a real zookeeper! Meet daily with a classroom instructor to discuss the various duties and responsibilities of a zookeeper. Meet with keepers and test newly acquired knowledge and skills by designing animal enrichment items, cleaning exhibits, participating in training, recording vital animal health information and much more.
Camp Theme |
Session # |
Dates |
Wild Survivor
|
#1
|
June 4 – June 8
|
Wild Survivor
|
#2
|
June 11 – June 15 |
Wild Survivor
|
#3
|
June 18 – June 22 |
Wild Survivor
|
#8
|
June 23 – June 27 |
Wild Survivor |
#9 |
July 30 – August 3 |
Wet & Wild
|
#4
|
June 25 – June 29 |
Wet & Wild
|
#6
|
July 9 – July 13 |
Wet & Wild |
#7 |
July 16 – July 20 |
Wet & Wild
|
#10
|
August 6 – August 10 |
Jr. Zoo Crew
|
#5
|
July 2, 3, 5 & 6 |
Jr. Zoo Crew |
#11 |
August 14 – August 17 |
