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Event Details: EARLY REGISTRATION BY JUNE 15 is $35/camper & $40 AFTER JUNE 15. Registration CLOSES JULY 1.
SCHOLARSHIPS are available with approval of the Camp Director.
Our fifth annual Patriot Camp is designed for elementary aged children entering Grades 1 - 6 in Fall 2022. We do our best to place your child in their grade but as more registrations are completed and some classes become full, your child may be placed in the grade lower or the grade higher than their own. If this occurs, the Director will contact you to determine what's best for your child.
Your child will stay with one group throughout the morning, and each group has an adult Group Leader (GL) and 2 Group Leader Assistants (GLA's). All volunteers over 18 y/o have a Background Check on file, and the teens assisting as GLA's as well as those helping in Games & Crafts are under the supervision of the adult volunteers.
Once signed in on the first or second day, parents are asked to bring their children to the class lines and to give your child's name to the GLA's for that class. We also ask that parents pick-up their children at the class lines & let the GLA know that you're taking them. If you have alternate adults picking up your child/children, be sure to list those on the registration form and include their phone numbers, too.
After your child goes to his/her class line, each morning begins with an Opening Ceremony where the Pledge of Allegiance is recited & the National Anthem is sung. This is followed by other songs related to this year's curriculum and then a Guest Speaker. Affter this, the children rotate through Games, Crafts, Snacks, and 3 Learning Stations. Each class has a different schedule for each day. Children then re-assemble on their class lines, and camp ends with a Closing Ceremony.
If your child has special dietary needs, please let me know.
A Memory Challenge is also given to our campers, and this year's will be a part of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence. We'll learn a song to help with this and also practice it during Snack Time.
Patriot Camp 2022's curriculum will focus on Westward Expansion which began to occur in 1783 -1784 following the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Revolutionary War. The treaty granted our new nation all of the land claimed by England from west of the 13 new states to the Mississippi River.
Our Founding Fathers had the wisdom to have that vast area surveyed & wrote the Northwest Ordinance which set down the parameters by which first territories would be formed followed by the formation of states within those territories. The NW Ordinance also laid out the guidelines for governance of the territories & states as well as a prohibition of slavery, a requirement for children to be educated in the classics, and a requirement that settlers live peacefully with Native Americans, Will these guidelines be followed?
This will be such an exciting time for both your children and all of us who volunteer at Patriot Camp! We can't wait!!!
Please contact me anytime with your questions or concerns.
Linda Middlekauff, Camp Director
541-784-6306
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