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YOUR GUIDE TO THE REGION’S BEST SUMMER PROGRAMS!

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By Lucy Norvell, Director of Public Information, American Camp Association, New England

decisions, decisions…The first decision to make is where to attend

camp! Parents and guardians do that on behalf of children and in partnership with them. Some teens even spearhead the entire process of choosing camp. But, selecting a camp, difficult as it can be, is just the beginning. Camp experiences teach children about decision-making individually and as group members. These are life lessons that set young people up for success in college and life; and camp provides them differently than families and schools do. Learning to become a better decision-maker can be a major benefit of attending summer camp.

Child development experts stress the impor-tance of allowing children to make decisions and to live with the consequences. But, that’s not easy in today’s world—or safe. At camp, children are empowered to make small and large decisions throughout the experience, as developmentally appropriate. For preschool age day campers de-cision-making might look like determining which towel and sun hat to pack in a backpack each eve-ning in preparation for the next day. Young over-night campers often get to experience a variety of planned activities to learn more about what’s available; but it’s common for them to be able to choose between electives during some portion of the day. And as campers return summer after summer, they are provided with more and more opportunities to make their own choices program-matically.

In addition to deciding what to do at camp, there are many other individual decisions campers get

to make: How to dress, how to participate in a dif-ficult group conversation, whether to speak up… These decisions are overseen by either counsel-ors or parents/guardians, but the point is to al-low children to do as much as possible. Counsel-ors may remind campers that swimming comes before lunch and encourage campers to wear or pack their swimsuits. Counselors help a quiet camper provide feedback in a difficult discussion about working together as a group.

Camps specialize in facilitating group decision-making opportunities. And the emphasis is on the facilitation. Trained adults work in partner-ship with campers to experience and process life as a group. Children get to plan adventures with adult guidance at overnight and day camps. Plan-ning requires the ability to make a series of sim-

ple and complex decisions as part of a learning progression. Campers don’t just go on a ten day trek in the White Mountains or white water rafting down a river. A musical production with costumes and choreography doesn’t just happen. For these larger experiences to be successful, campers work up to them through a decision-making pro-cess. Campers get to decide whether or not to go out for the play. The group doing technical theatre decides how to gather the props and how to pull creative costumes together. Staff members guide a hiking group to select which mountain to climb. After following a progression of increasingly diffi-cult hikes, counselors guide the group to plan and pack their food, gear up for, and go on the big trip.

Children feel empowered by decision-making opportunities. Summer camp offers these and manyother lessons that come from hands-on learning. Knowing how to decide is a critical life skill; practicing decision-making is the best way to build it. Colleges and employers value young people who are confident decision-makers. Sum-mer camp experiences are helping build this criti-cal competency!

Provided by the American Camp Association, New England, a 501 (c) 3 organization that serves families and camp professionals as the region’s leading source for “all things summer camp.” For help finding a camp or for additional camp information and resources in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI & VT, visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080.

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Future environmentalists are the Campers of Today!

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Campers are the future stewards of the environ-ment! What they learn at summer camp raises en-vironmental awareness and establishes a lifelong interest in caring for the planet. What they learn at camp just might save the planet!

Camps have long provided an ideal setting for creating environmental awareness in our children; and camps in New England have been doing so for the last century and a half! Living more closely with the Earth while at camp than at any other time of the year (whether for the day or overnight), campers experience nature differently. They expe-rience it as members of the ecosystem, which al-lows them to understand and appreciate biodiver-sity on a personal level. Camp gives children the chance to explore how their choices impact other animals and the Earth and it often sparks their in-terest in studying science of all kinds, especially environmental science and Earth science.

Camp program offerings maximize the use of the site where camp is located—whether that is in a field or a forest or on an island or school campus. Experiential learning at camp happens in a wide array of settings where a camp’s loca-tion can provide built-in environmental lessons. Organic gardens are planted to catch enough rays of the sun; kayakers and canoers are forbidden to pick the water lilies as they paddle around the

pond or lake; overnight trips travel to the island in the middle of the camp’s lake; and hikers stomp across the dirt road, climb a mountain and climb back down with every scrap of trash generated on the hike.

These experiences in the natural world are transformational—so much so that campers re-

turn home with real world knowledge of environ-mental awareness and an expanded focus on avoiding making an impact on the environment. Campers return home with an enhanced appre-ciation of the outdoors and of the environment. Most go on to appreciate natural parks and wild-life preserves for the rest of their lives while oth-ers take environmental interests on to college, into the workforce and even into their own adult lives, communities and families.

Children’s optimal development continues to be enhanced by such camp experiences. Recent research has shown that NOT interacting with na-ture has quite a negative influence on child de-velopment. While you’ll find varying degrees of environmental expertise and focus from camp to camp, summer camps today are building on the proud tradition of providing children with oppor-tunities to experience and enjoy nature and the environment in ways that will sustain our collec-tive future.

Provided by the American Camp Association, New England, a 501 (c) 3 organization that serves fami-lies and camp professionals as the region’s lead-ing source for “all things summer camp.” For help finding a camp or for additional camp information and resources in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI & VT, visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080.

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• STRIKER SCHOOL: Montpelier High School, July 7th – July 11th,1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Tuition: $140

• JR. DRAGONS: Barre Town Recreation Fields, June 23rd – June 27th, Ages 4-5 Years, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Tuition: $125Montpelier High School, July 7th – July 11th, Ages 4-5 Years, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, Tuition: $125

• HIGH SCHOOL PREP: Barre Town Recreation Fields, August 11th – August 13th5:30pm to 7:30 PM (HS Aged Males and Females)Tuition: $75

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Guess what? Finding a camp is fun! There’s a camp out there for everyone—figuring out which ones suit a child’s current needs and interests is an adventure in itself (not as fun as going to camp, but fun nonetheless!). Here are five steps to guide your family’s Camp search this year.

1. Begin in New England, where summer camp began a century and a half ago. New England camps offer an incredible array of options. Day. Overnight. Trip and travel. Independent. Nonprofit. Religiously-affiliated. One week. Eight weeks. Coed. Girls’ only. Boys’ only. General. Traditional. Specialty (and everything in between). Hundreds of camps are nestled among the lakes, forests, beaches, and moun-tains all six New England states.

2. Get the lay of the camp landscape—online. Online camp search has just had a long-await-ed major advancement—a place in cyber-space where camp seekers can explore all their options on one website! The American Camp Association’s Find A Camp Tool is now available at www.acanewengland.org (click on Families & Public). Finally! A one-stop spot in cyberspace to explore a full range of camp op-tions by using key search criteria. Search by location, date, session length, activity, and in-tensity of instruction and competition.

3. Visit a Camp Fair—or two! This can be an efficient way to explore camp options—in a large room where anywhere from 30-90 camp exhibitors are set up to share information and advice. Wherever you are in your camp search, attending a camp fair can be educational. Meeting camp people can inform your search in a big way.

4. Talk with camp representatives. If a camp fair is not an option this year, you can fill in the gaps from your website research with in-formation you gather over the phone and via email, chat, Skype or other forms of electronic communication. Camp people are sitting by their phones and computers at this time of the year just to answer questions from pro-spective campers and families! When you get close to a final decision, ask for names of par-

ents of new campers from last summer so you can hear firsthand what they and their families experienced.

5. Talk to people about camps! Do check ref-erences and collect as much informal infor-mation about camps as possible. And do ask your neighbors, friends, and parents of your children’s friends about camp, too. Pediatri-cians and teachers might have some great camp insight for you as well! And remember, you’re welcome to contact ACA New England, the region’s experts on all things camp.

Like many searches, it’s fine to start your camp search online. But, end that search with people. Camps are people-centered. People who work at the camp and people who have attended and who belong to the camp’s community are going to be able to help most as you explore the fit between what you and your child hope to find in a camp and what each particular camp strives to provide.

Provided by the American Camp Association, New England, a 501 (c)3 organization that serves as the region’s leading source for “all things summer camp.” Families and camp profession-als in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI & VT can visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080 for additional information and resources.

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Camp Search 101: 5 Steps to Find a Best Fit Summer Camp!

By Lucy Norvell, Director of Public Information, American Camp Association, New England


Key Questions to Consider When Framing Your Camp Search

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What’s driving your camp search? Un-paralleled fun and learning? The opportunity for new experiences? To develop new skills? Family tradition? The need for child care?

What are your leading camp search criteria? Which are non-negotiable and which are pref-erences? For example, does a camp have to be single-sex, offer four week sessions, or be located in a particular area?

What specific activities and programs might interest your child? What level of intensity are you looking for? Are you look-ing for opportunities to try new activities, to play, to advance current skills, to practice, to compete, or to specialize?

What educational philosophy will best match your child’s temperament? What values are important to you in terms of how the camp runs its program and trains its staff? Do you want a camp that emphasizes structure and responsibility? One that empha-sizes free play and choice? How do the camps you are consider-ing build community and encourage independence?

What kind of facilities will your camper consider? Discuss camp “architecture” (tents, cabins, bunks, and more), dining, electricity, bath-

rooms, and the list goes on!

What session length is comfortable for you, for your child and for your family’s summer sched-

ule? Remaining flexible about session length can considerably increase your options. Ses-sions range from a few days up to 8 weeks, often with plenty of options in between.

What clientele should the camp focus on? There are camps for boys only, girls only, coed, brother/sister, religious groups, under-served populations, children with special needs, and everything in between.

What is your camp budget? Camp remains an affordable option for most everyone and

some camps offer financial assistance. Financial aid procedures vary from camp to camp, so don’t

be afraid to ask questions. Read camp brochures and websites carefully for information and application

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By Bette Bussel, Executive Director, American Camp Association, New England

How Summer Camps Keep Kids Healthy

A new study by Indiana University and Ohio State researchers found that children gain more weight over the summer than during the school year. However, a child’s summer camp experience can provide the structure and activity needed to keep kids healthy year-round. Ac-cording to research conducted by the American Camp Association, 63% of children who learn new activities at camp tend to continue engaging in these activities after they return home.

The whole camp environment promotes a healthy lifestyle and prevents childhood obesity, and it’s not just limited to the activities that campers are participating in. Camp includes a lot of physical activity, but it also includes healthy eating and good nutrition, and a set sleep schedule, all of which many children with no camp experience are missing out on.

Exercise:

Summer camp life involves quite a bit of mov-ing around, and no matter what, campers are al-ways playing. Physical activities such as, sports, dance, swimming, navigating the ropes course, or hiking up a mountain, all require campers to move and burn calories in new ways. Even the walk from one activity to another might involve more steps than children typically take in a day.

Healthy Eating:

At camp, food tends to be different than school cafeteria food and home food and

snacks. Camp is all about trying out new experi-ences, and many campers do that even in the dining hall, campers have an opportunity to try new foods - whether it’s a new salad dressing from the salad bar at lunch or frozen yogurt instead of ice cream. Food service staff mem-bers and counselors are always looking for ways to encourage healthy eating by introducing new meals. Also, often campers are exposed to the food that happens to be around camp like produce from the camp’s garden and healthy snacks often at hand, including cereal, energy bars, or pieces of fresh fruit, and of course, plenty of water rather than soda and other sug-ary drinks.

Sufficient Shuteye:

You will be amazed at how tired your camper is when they come home from day camp or even a session at overnight camp. Reports in fact show that bedtime happens on time or early most days for day campers. Overnight campers expe-rience optimal conditions for sleep too—extra activity during the day, fresh air and sunshine, and a schedule with built in time for sleep and rest—often after lunch and again at the end of the day.

The Benefits of the Great Outdoors:

Spending more time in nature is a proven stress reducer. The warmth of the sun, a cool, refreshing rain, the calming sounds, the wind in the trees — being outside and connecting with

nature is nurturing and calming for people of all ages. Camps offer some unique opportunities to explore, appreciate, learn and benefit from nature, and when stress is reduced, often the desire to overeat and remain inactive is also reduced.

The American Camp Association, New England believes that all children need to be provided with a broad range of opportunities to be physi-cally active. Physical activity produces fundamen-tal physical, psychological, and social benefits. For more than 150 years, camp programs have sought ways to create healthy communities for children by providing environments that offer frequent and varied opportunities for physical activity. The healthy lifestyle learning curve can be steep, but camps encourage children and pro-vide the lessons, role models, coaching, inspira-tion, and encouragement that children need so they can form healthy habits for life.

For more information, please visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080.


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How to prepare for Summer Camp!By Bette Bussel, Executive Director,

American Camp Association, New England

Once final camp decisions have been made and registration logistics are well underway, parents and guardians of first-time campers may be unsure of how to prepare themselves and their children for upcoming summer camp experiences. The American Camp Association, New England offers the follow-ing pointers:

1. Pack efficiently — What gear will you need? Your camp offers the best advice—what campers really do need. If a packing list is provided by the camp, carefully follow it. Whether you’re filling a daypack for day camp or a duffle, backpack or trunk for overnight camp, remember that more is not necessarily better. Over packing is the most common camp prep error families make. Over packing creates difficulty in finding essential items quickly—the swimsuit for free swim, for instance. Over packing increas-es the chances that possessions will get lost somewhere in camp. Over packing burdens the camper.

2. Pack together — If campers are to manage their belongings while at camp (for the day or for weeks at a time), they need to pack them! Camp experiences teach children valuable life lessons in how to keep track of and to take care of their belongings. If adults do the packing for and not with campers, children don’t know what they have or where to find it.

3. Practice independence — Camp provides an opportunity for each child to benefit as an individual and as a member of a group, from time spent in a world designed exclusively for children. It also offers parents and children a chance to practice normal, healthy separation, for the day or for several days or weeks at a time. At camp, children develop autonomy and a stronger sense of self. They make new friends, build skills, and experi-ence teamwork. And at the end of camp, parents report their children’s increased sense of independence. Schedule some time away from home for the day or overnight with friends and family members.

4. Talk, talk, talk — It is only natural that as the first day of camp approach-es, some children may experience uneasiness. Encourage your child to talk about these feelings. Let children know that you are confident in their ability to handle the independence that being a camper brings. Remind the child of other times they have been independent — sleepovers and time away from home with friends or family, etc.

5. Get real — It is important for children and parents to maintain realistic expectations. Camp is a microcosm of the real world, so just like life, there will be highs and lows. Parents should encourage realistic views of what camp will be like, discussing both the high points and the low points children may experience. Remind children that the most important thing is to relax and have fun at camp.

6. Prepare to move through homesickness with confidence — If homesick-ness hits, things will go more smoothly if there’s a plan in place. Discuss beforehand what the camper might do when missing home. Empower the child to seek a counselor’s help. Prepare yourself to support your child’s ability to adjust to a new setting. Try to follow the camp’s advice. Remem-ber that for most children homesickness is a passing phase and growth opportunity. Working through it can be tremendously empowering! And your plan will be the first step.

7. Look forward to keeping camp memories alive — Campers love to remi-nisce. So set your child up for success by planning for what will happen with photos and camp memorabilia. Will there be a photo album? A spe-cial box for collecting camp memories? Get the rest of the family ready to hear camp stories and songs! Those can go on well into the winter and spring until it’s time to return to camp.

Provided by the American Camp Association, New England, a 501 (c) 3 orga-nization that serves families and camp professionals as the region’s leading source for “all things summer camp.” For help finding a camp or for addi-tional camp information and resources in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI & VT, visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080.


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Ten reasons Why Your Child Needs a Summer Camp experience

By Bette Bussel, Executive Director, American Camp Association, New England

There's no doubt that summer camp is fun. Kids get to sing silly songs, play fun-ny games, swim in lakes, and tell spooky stories around a campfire; this is the image of camp that has been captured and memorialized in films, books, and television programs. But there's much more to camp than just a good time. For the last century and a half, experiential education in summer camp settings has played an integral role in children’s over-all development–cognitive, physical, and social-emotional. Here are ten reasons why your child shouldn’t miss out on the unique growth experience that awaits this summer at day or overnight camp:1. Development of critical-thinking

and leadership skills. Camp pro-vides the perfect environment for your child to learn and practice individual and group decision-making, how to navigate interactions with others and socialize appropriately, and how to resolve conflict and other issues that may arise when working, playing and living together closely.

2. Increased physical activity. From soccer and tag to canoeing and hiking to walking to the dining hall for meals, an on-going workout is a natural part of the camp day.

3. Direct experiences in nature. Being outside is proven to reduce stress levels, improve mood, and simultaneously stimulate all of a child's sens-es. Day after day in the outdoors teaches children about many of the sci-ences (Earth, biological, and environmental to name just a few.)

4. Lasting intergenerational and diverse relationships. From peers to counselors, summer camp gives your child an opportunity to meet new people from a variety of age groups, providing them with positive role mod-els and new friends.

5. Safety away from home. At camp your child is supervised by trained professionals who ensure their safety while inspiring them to have fun and try new things.

6. Greater self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and self-confidence. In addition to learning how to take responsibility for themselves, their space, and their belongings, campers often discover strengths that they never knew existed through various activities and experiences. Being at camp is inde-pendence boosting.

7. Reduced summer learning loss. Studies have shown that during sum-mer vacation, students can lose the equivalent of up to three months of what they've learned during the school year. Camp programming keeps a child’s brain active, alert, and acquiring knowledge and skills.

8. Positive risk-taking. Camp provides a safe, wholesome, judgment-free environment for your child to step out of their own comfort zone to take physical and emotional risks that they never would have tried during the school year.

9. A strong sense of community. Group living and team experiences teach children how to work together for a common goal and to find their place and voice within a group. Camp communities create a powerful sense of belonging for their campers.

10. Memories that will last a lifetime and experiences and skills chil-dren can build on for summers to come. When the summer ends, camp memories live on in children’s hearts and minds. They take home skills and experiences that will come in handy back at school. Expect them to be enthusiastic about advancing those skills and acquiring new ones at camp next summer!

Provided by the American Camp Association, New England, a 501 (c) 3 or-ganization that serves families and camp professionals as the region’s lead-ing source for “all things summer camp.” For help finding a camp or for ad-ditional camp information and resources in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI & VT, visit www.acanewengland.org or call (781) 541-6080.

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taste of verMoNt: Come join us for a tour of Vermont’s local culinary fine arts. Visit several local businesses and taste different flavors of Vermont,

such as Ben & Jerry’s, Lake Champlain Chocolates, and Cabot.

farM week: After visiting Shelburne Farms, “Kick it Old School” while making butter, candles, and other homemade products during Farm week. The children will get to experience a day in the life of a farmer.

…and more!

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