1st Grade Session 2

Give your camper a daily snack option with our Snack Pass! 

One Snack Pass = $24, and is good for one snack each day of camp (totaling 12 snacks).

Passes will be redeemed during recess or after camp,  if they are enrolled in aftercare. 

• Additional Snack Passes may be purchased if you would like your child to have more than one snack. 

Passes are purchased online when you register.

Campers can select one snack per day during their recess or during after school if they are enrolled in child care. Snacks will be an assortment of "power foods" that fuel fun and learning, focusing on whole foods with protein, fiber and healthy fats to keep our campers full, energized and SMART! Availability may vary.

• Available 2:30PM - 5:30PM.

• We offer engaging after-school care with flexible options to fit your family’s needs.

• Full Session Package: $600 for 36 hours of care (covers the entire session).  

•  Drop-In Rate: $25 per hour, billed in 15 minute increments ($6.25 per quarter hour).

• Activities:   Kids enjoy a variety of activities including free play,  arts and crafts,  supervised sports (kickball, tag, soccer, dodgeball, basketball and more, and  quiet time with G-rated Disney+ shows (4:30 - 5:30 PM).

• Late Pickup: A late fee of $1.00 per minute applies after 5:30 PM.

• The after-camp program requires a minimum daily enrollment of 10 students to operate.

This exciting summer program for incoming Kindergarten and 1st-grade students, blends the fun of fairy tales with essential learning skills. Through engaging storytelling, musical performances, and hands-on activities, your child will develop confidence, creativity, and a love of learning.

Each session of DMP Players immerses children in the enchanting world of fairytales. We'll explore classic stories, focusing on key literacy skills like predicting, retelling, and understanding characters and settings. Your child will also have the opportunity to shine on stage, participating in a mini-musical production inspired by the stories we read.

But the learning goes beyond the stage! We'll engage in hands-on activities to enhance fine motor skills as we create dazzling backdrops and props for our performances. Each session features a unique theme and musical, ensuring a fresh and exciting experience for every participant.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop essential pre-literacy skills.

• Enhance social-emotional learning through collaborative activities.

• Boost confidence and self-expression through performance.

• Foster a love of reading and performing.

• Improve fine motor skills through creative projects.

Instructor: Mrs. Murphy, DMP's Kindergarten Teacher

Give Your Child the Gift of Reading Success This Summer!

Is your child ready to become a confident and enthusiastic reader? Jumpstart Readers is an expertly crafted summer program designed for students in first grade that builds essential reading skills while fostering a lifelong love of books.

Our program combines direct, small-group instruction with engaging, hands-on activities to ensure your child makes significant progress. From strengthening phonics mastery to exploring diverse genres, students will develop the skills they need to tackle any text with confidence. They might be creating a puppet show while learning about different types of literature, or participating in a mock book club to discuss their favorite stories.

Every student receives an individual assessment to ensure proper placement and personalized attention. Our dedicated instructors provide a supportive and encouraging environment where every child can flourish. At the end of the program, families are invited to a conference to celebrate demonstrable improvement and discuss strategies for continued growth.

Enroll your child in Jumpstart Readers today!

Instructor:  Mrs. Wendy Poyhonen, DMP Kindergarten Teacher 

Where engineering meets physics, amazing inventions happen! Design bridges, build cars, and take on exciting challenges while discovering gravity, electricity, air pressure, lights, and more! How can the forces of nature help you build it bigger, better, and stronger?

Instructor: The Science Guys, returning DMP Enrichment and Summer Discoveries Vendor

What if you could ski mountains of ice cream and sprinkles? What if gravity worked sideways? What if it would rain cats and dogs? In this camp, we make the impossible- possible! 

This camp is about flipping the world around through visual wordplay, impossible ideas, and the beginnings of illustration. Students take idioms, everyday phrases, and reality itself and draw them in ways that are funny, surprising, and unique to their own ideas. In this camp, students will get the chance to generate wacky and unique ideas, learn the foundations of fine art, understand narrative illustration, and apply their new skills on their projects. 

You’ll get to draw, paint, sculpt, and make mixed media art designs. By the end of each week, you will take home a variety of illustrated works of grandeur! Every student also gets their own sketchbook to jot down ideas and sketches and take home at the end of the camp! Let’s go create!

Instructor: Ms. Anna, Art-Deco Studios, returning DMP Enrichment Vendor and Young Artists' Day Participant

Students entering First or Second grade in the fall will enjoy an adventure in the exploration of math games. Math Games is a     game-based math class that explores how math applies to the real world. Your child will see how important math is and how much fun solving problems can be. Students will use paper, toys, food, and iPads to create, discover and develop functional math skills and awareness of foundational math ideas. Each child will have access to an iPad for use during the class.

Instructor: Mrs. Laura Murphy, DMP's Kindergarten Teacher

Students will use iPads and follow the curriculum inside code.org which will provide a fun, engaging way for students to learn basic computer  science concepts.  We will also take a hands-on approach with the coding of Bee Bots which will move to students’ instructions.  Lastly, students will discover how coding helped fuel the space race. 

It’s going to be fun and hands-on!

Instructor: Mr. Sanchez, DMP's Technology Teacher

CSI: Crazy Science Investigation is the most fun you can have at a crime scene! We’ll collect clues, identify suspects, and solve crimes through exciting hands-on science. Explore DNA, fingerprinting, fiber analysis, anatomy, and more - plus take home your own CSI Kit!

Instructor: The Science Guys, returning DMP Enrichment and Summer Discoveries Vendor

This camp will teach children how to make their own scrubs, masks, and other treatments using natural ingredients! Make Unicorn sugar scrub, homemade glitter soap, peppermint and chocolate lip-balm, colorful clip in hair styling and hair styling station, bath bombs, spa headbands, smoothies, decorate spa sandals, edible mud masks, create mermaid foot scrubs, homemade kid friendly nail polish and nail art decorating, homemade “perfume” and jars, make your own hair clips, cupcake bath fizz in a jar and much more! 

Fun spa themed games will be incorporated each day! 

Instructor:  Charlene's Dance & Cheer, returning DMP Enrichment and Young Artists' Day Vendor

Designed for a multi-purpose hard court, this program features modified games that prioritize safety while keeping kids active and excited.

Sports & activities may include:
Basketball games • Floor hockey • Throwing games • Relays & obstacle courses

Program Focus:

• Safe play with soft equipment

• Coordination & balance

• Short games & frequent movement

• Learning through play

A fun and safe way for kids to stay active indoors or on court surfaces.

Instructor:  Sports-X, returning DMP Enrichment Vendor

Calling all young book lovers! 

Embark on a magical summer journey with Mrs. Canzone and Mrs. Colley through the world of children’s literature. Each session, we’ll dive into captivating stories, spark our imaginations with fun discussions, and bring tales to life through creative crafts and snacks.  Get ready for a summer filled with adventure, laughter, and a love of reading!

Instructors: DMP's 2nd and 3rd grade teachers, Mrs. Colley and Mrs. Canzone

Get ready for Crazy Chemistry - where science bubbles, foams, and explodes! 

Let’s create elephant toothpaste, lava lamps, Skittle colors, walking water, and more while exploring exciting chemical reactions. 

What are elements, how do they combine, and what happens when they react?

Instructor: The Science Guys, returning DMP Enrichment and Summer Discoveries Vendor

Our goal is to teach children in grades 1– 6 abstract concepts of planning, analysis and strategy through the game of chess. Kids will be excited to understand and amazed by the positive experience that chess offers. We believe that when a child learns the most complicated game in the world, they will build self-confidence, develop self-learning tools and learn how to evaluate their own decision-making process. 

This chess class is fun and educational. Kids participate in mental gymnastics, learn chess from trained instructors, and experience competition with others. Kids who learn chess will sharpen their analytical and observation skills which will be very useful in many aspects of their life. 

Chess teaches critical and abstract thinking, planning, logic and analysis. It improves the ability to concentrate and teaches the value of good sportsmanship. Chess also teaches the importance of behavior management: making good choices and considering all possibilities.

●Chess develops memory. 

●Chess improves concentration. 

●Chess develops logical thinking. 

●Chess teaches independence. 

●Chess promotes imagination and creativity. 

●Chess inspires self-motivation. 

●Chess improves schoolwork and grades 

Instructor: Coach Dustin, returning Enrichment and Summer Camp Vendor

Eat what you create in this fun edible science themed cooking camp! Recipes focus on the science, chemistry and physics behind making ice cream in a bag (freezing point), erupting volcano cakes (acid-base), candy geodes (crystallization), edible slime, fizzing powder sherbet, glow in the dark jello, molecular gastronomy sweet fruit “caviar” pearls, baked forms scratch bread (leavened bread science) homemade apple butter, chocolate mousse, grape molecules and much more! 

*Please note, we cannot make accommodations/substitutions for allergies or dietary restrictions. Food may contain milk, cocoa, dairy, egg, gluten and tree nuts. 

Instructor:  Charlene's Dance & Cheer, returning DMP Enrichment and Young Artists' Day Vendor

Calling all junior bakers! Bake up delicious recipes and desserts! Learn cooking and kitchen skills, work as a team and create a variety of recipes including (but not limited to) surprise confetti cupcakes, mini s’mores cookie cups. Greek yogurt banana muffins, homemade crepes, baked mozzarella sticks, cinnamon sugar pizza, homemade truffles, baked sweet potato tots, puff pastry pin wheels, homemade pizza rolls, cheesy mac n cheese in a mug, angel food cake, tiny vanilla layer cakes, and much more ! 

Please note we cannot make accommodations for food allergies and sensitivity and recipes may include eggs, milk, tree nuts, wheat, gluten etc. 

Instructor:  Charlene's Dance & Cheer, returning DMP Enrichment and Young Artists' Day Vendor