5th 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.

Prepare your child for long-term academic success with our engaging and enriching summer language arts course. This immersive program strengthens essential reading, writing, and language skills while building the critical thinking and analytical abilities students need across all subject areas. Each day, students participate in purposeful writing activities that reinforce grammar and mechanics, dive deeply into high-quality novels through thoughtful discussion, and practice crafting clear, well-supported essays. Guided reading comprehension lessons help students analyze complex texts, make meaningful connections, and support their ideas with strong evidence.

At the end of the program, families are invited to a conference to celebrate demonstrable improvement and discuss strategies for continued growth.

 Give your child the academic edge and confidence they need to thrive.

Instructor: DMP's 6th Grade Teacher,  Mrs. Joanne Freedman

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

In this session, students will combine coding with storytelling and creativity. They will build an interactive animated story about themselves while learning how to use dialogue, animation, scene changes, and user interaction. As their skills grow, students will design a branching mystery adventure, creating characters, adding clues, developing multiple story paths, and building suspense through code. 

Perfect for students who love storytelling, creativity, and imaginative problem-solving!

Instructor:  Mrs. Susan Smith, returning DMP Camp Instructor, San Marcos Unified GATE Coordinator, 5th Grade Teacher  

This class is a deeper dive into improving existing chess skills.  

Students must have taken a Chess class previously and have some experience.  Students will learn to play with chess clocks and to notate their own games.  They will be learning to analyze the games that they play, and to look for different possibilities that may have better results.  This class is tournament focused and students are introduced to the rules and etiquette for tournaments.  They will play a tournament during class in which trophies and medals will be awarded to all students.  Students develop increased patience, critical thinking and planning.  They also learn a healthy attitude toward competition and improvement.  There will be a fun bughouse chess tournament.  Bughouse chess is a 4 player variant of chess where the student plays with a partner in a fast paced, exciting game.

Instructor: Coach Dustin, returning Enrichment and Summer Camp Vendor

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

Do you want to learn the basics of photography? 

Have you ever wanted to learn to edit photos? 

This class will teach students how to take photos with a digital camera and transfer them to a computer where they will work with photos and additional images. The class will explore proper composition, exposure techniques, and types of photography. The class will also look at examples of famous pictures and attempt to duplicate the styles. Students will walk around the campus looking for unique angles, shapes, colors, and lighting as we capture a variety of images. We will take our photos and enhance them using Adobe Lightroom to correct minor flaws in the image and to experiment ways to make the images different. We take photos almost every day in our lives and our kids will most certainly do the same. This class will provide the basics of a journey that will last a lifetime.

Students will use digital cameras that are provided by the school in addition to a laptop with Adobe Lightroom.

Instructor: Mr. Terry Sanchez, DMP's Technology Teacher

Do your kids have big ideas? We help them share them boldly. Young Voices: Public Speaking & The Art of Expression is designed to build confidence, creativity, and critical thinking through fun, interactive speaking experiences. We transform curious, imaginative kids into confident communicators who can stand tall, organize their thoughts, and express with clarity.

Through interactive games, storytelling challenges, improv activities, and friendly debates, students learn how to capture attention, build strong opinions with reasons, and think on their feet.  It feels like play, but every game, story, and friendly debate is intentionally designed to empower  with confidence that lasts far beyond the classroom.

Instructor: Generation Forward, returning DMP enrichment 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 DMP Enrichment and Camp vendor

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

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