Orange Community Education & Recreation

Can't get enough minecarts, redstone and diamond pickaxes? Step out of the virtual world for an in-person camp adventure with fellow Minecrafters. Campers will spend the week constructing boats and minecarts, "crafting recipes," playing "creeper" tag, building LEGO Minecraft sets, learning archery and much, much more. The camp will culminate with a real Minecraft head-to-head challenge in an actual video game truck! All campers will also take home Minecraft fun kits to continue the fun at home.

If you want to boost your child's confidence heading back into school in the fall, look no further than Academic Adventures Camp. There is nothing standard about this camp (except for Learning Standards, that is)! Academic Adventures Camp will provide your entering K through 5th grader with two solid weeks of project-based FUN! Whether you choose Pizza Parlor, Animal Discoveries or both, your child will be more than ready to go back to school with confidence! The camps offer smaller group sizes and highly-qualified teachers that are sure to give your child an extra edge! During Animal Discoveries week, your camper will be immersed in everything related to the “zoo.” Each day, your child will “travel” the world to study various animal habitats such as: Journey to the Jungle, In the Savannah, Forest Frontiers, Ocean Explorers and Polar Expeditions. Entering First Grade Learning Focus: Counting to 100, shapes, addition/subtraction, capitalization/punctuation, nocturnal, settings, characters, sight words, weather Entering Second Grade Learning Focus: Time, ordering, greater than/less than, sight words, reading, basic needs, solar energy, maps, research, bodies of water, caring for things Entering Third Grade Learning Focus: Sides/vertices of shapes, research, careers, maps, timelines, extinction, fossils, weather, writing, reading, natural disasters Entering Fourth Grade Learning Focus: Area, perimeter, telling time, soil, rocks, water, multiplication/ division, mystery writing, reading laws/rules, personal narratives Entering Fifth Grade Learning Focus: Multiple step problems, interpreting charts/graphs, cost comparing fractions, reading informational text, writing opinion pieces, narrative writing, research, fossils, ecosystems

If you want to boost your child's confidence heading back into school in the fall, look no further than Academic Adventures Camp. There is nothing standard about this camp (except for Learning Standards, that is)! Academic Adventures Camp will provide your entering K through 5th grader with two solid weeks of project-based FUN! Whether you choose Pizza Parlor, Animal Discoveries or both, your child will be more than ready to go back to school with confidence! The camps offer smaller group sizes and highly-qualified teachers that are sure to give your child an extra edge! During Pizza Parlor week, your camper will start a fun, new endeavor as an “owner” of a pizza parlor. Each day, your child will develop teamwork and academic skills while starting a pizza business, including creating recipes, cooking, developing menus, marketing and so much more. Entering First Grade Learning Focus: Shapes, greater than/less than, emergent reading, letter sounds, opinion writing, report writing, sorting, goods/services, onset/rime Entering Second Grade Learning Focus: Fractions, 3D shapes, counting coins, addition/ subtraction, writing, sight words, sources of food, supply/demand, reading, gravity, living/nonliving Entering Third Grade Learning Focus: Even/odd, arrays, place value, measurement, fractions, bar graphs, time, counting coins, writing, reading, buying/selling, condensation/evaporation Entering Fourth Grade Learning Focus: Multiplication/division, fractions, time, word problems, volume, graphing, writing, research, solid/liquid/gas, energy, budgeting, consumerism Entering Fifth Grade: Learning Focus: Multiple step problems, supply and demand, cost, resources, decimals, interpreting charts/graphs, comparing fractions, reading informational text, matter, opinion writing, narrative writing, research