Week 1: Animal Week 🐾

Get ready to explore the wild side of learning!

🧢 Enrichment Activity: Students will decorate trucker hats to wear on their zoo field trip, combining creativity with animal-themed excitement.

📚 Academic Focus: Students will explore what animals need to survive and learn about animal adaptations by creating their own animal habitat dioramas.

🏃‍♂️ Physical Activity: Students will act out animals in survival mode—crawling like spiders, dodging like scorpions, and working together in TEKS-aligned games that build fitness, teamwork, and coordination.

Week 2: Olympic Week 🏅

Let the Games Begin!

Get ready for an action-packed adventure filled with creativity, movement, and Olympic spirit!

🎨 Enrichment Activity: Students will design their own country flags and craft an Olympic torch, bringing cultural pride and creativity to life.

📚 Academic Focus: Campers will explore geography and world traditions as they connect each Olympic symbol to a participating country. They'll also engage in engineering challenges by building their own mini Olympic arenas!

🏃‍♀️ Physical Activity: From ring toss relays to team-based challenges, students will compete in friendly, TEKS-aligned games that promote teamwork, coordination, and sportsmanship.

🎳 Special Highlight: Be on the lookout for our Creasey’s Bowl field trip this week, a gold-medal-worthy experience you won’t want to miss

Week 3: Artistic Week 🎨

Unleash your inner artist and celebrate creativity through color and imagination!

🖌️ Enrichment Activity: Students will design and paint their own canvas masterpieces with step-by-step guidance, learning brush techniques and expressing their individuality.

📚 Academic Focus: Students will explore the elements of art—line, shape, color, texture, and space—while studying famous artists and creating a short reflective writing piece on their artwork.

🤸‍♀️ Physical Activity: Students will engage in movement-based art activities like body tracing, mural collaboration, and rhythm-based painting games, combining creativity with teamwork and motor skill development.

Week 4: Culinary Week 🍴

Turn up the heat and mix in some fun—it's time to cook, create, and celebrate culture through food!

👩‍🍳 Enrichment Activity: Students will prepare hands-on, no-cook recipes tied to cultural traditions, learning basic kitchen safety, food handling, and teamwork while crafting delicious dishes like fruit cups, cucumber boats, and cultural corn dips.

📚 Academic Focus: Students will dive into recipe reading, measuring ingredients, and learning about nutrition and food science—connecting math, science, and reading in meaningful, tasty ways.

🏃‍♂️ Physical Activity: Students will engage in food-themed fitness relays and group games like “Chef’s Obstacle Course” and “Healthy Plate Tag” to promote movement, balance, and health-conscious choices.

Week 5: Aquatic Week 💦

Make a splash while learning and having fun in and out of the water!

🩱 Enrichment Activity: Students visited the Harlingen CISD Aquatic Center for a fun-filled day of water safety, swimming, and structured aquatic play that built confidence and coordination in the pool.

📚 Academic Focus: Students explored the science behind water—states of matter, buoyancy, and the importance of hydration—through engaging experiments and interactive discussions.

🏃‍♂️ Physical Activity: In addition to swim time, students participated in dry-land water relay games and TEKS-aligned physical challenges that promoted teamwork, endurance, and gross motor skills.

Week 6: E-Sports Week 🎮

Level up your learning with strategy, teamwork, and digital fun!

🕹️ Enrichment Activity: Students participated in an exciting E-sports competition, gaining hands-on experience with gaming setups, tournament brackets, and sportsmanship while building confidence and digital literacy.

📚 Academic Focus: Students explored the STEM behind gaming—critical thinking, coding basics, problem-solving, and game design elements—while analyzing strategies and reflecting on teamwork and goal-setting.

Week 7: Wildlife Exploration Week 🦎
Discover the wonders of nature and the importance of wildlife conservation!
🦉 Enrichment Activity: Students took a thrilling trip to Fragile Planet Wildlife Park in Los Fresnos, where they encountered exotic animals, learned from wildlife experts, and gained a deeper appreciation for biodiversity and animal care.

July 14: Movie Magic Week 🎬

Lights, camera, learning! Dive into storytelling, cinema, and imagination.

🍿 Enrichment Activity: Students enjoyed a special trip to the movies, engaging in discussions about plot, characters, and visual storytelling—encouraging them to think critically about media and creativity.

Jurassic RGV roared into our Summer ACE program, and it was dino-mite! 🦖

Students had a blast learning about dinosaurs, showing respect for their teachers, and why showing up every day matters. From prehistoric creatures to powerful lessons, it was a day to remember!