SCHOOL AGE SUMMER
About
The best summer programs for school-age children combine academic, enrichment, character building, and recreational activities, often through project-based or theme-based activities. At Growing Years many different projects/themes are explored during the summer months! By implementing theme-based activities, many different components come into play—math, reading, writing, history, reinforced with hands-on field trips.
Our summer program has our “school agers” attending three different field trips a week! We also feel lucky enough to encompass a new community service project with our newly formed partnership with The Caring Closet. Children will be learning about farming and physically planting and picking their very own snacks once a week while helping The Caring Closet successfully prepare each week for their Farm to Table initiative for the less fortunate.
After all of that fun our teachers still make sure that the children participate in a program called “Quest”, developed by the Michigan State Board of Education to review skills from each child’s grade level, while giving them opportunities to learn new skills throughout the summer months.
Field Trips
Some field trips are planned to coincide and reinforce what children are learning and some field trips are just for fun! We try very hard to minimize the cost of field trips by taking advantage of local areas like public parks and libraries. Also, we provide the transportation for field trips!
Below is a list of some of the field trips we’ve taken in the past:
Stardust Bowling and Game Room
Painterly Pottery
Backwoods Blueberry
Walks to Mooney’s Ice Cream
Thomas Township Library
Caring Closet
Loons Games
Saginaw Arts Festival
Project Recreation
Chuck E Cheese
Midland Spray Park
Gym Jesters
Wilderness Trail Zoo
Saginaw Children’s Zoo
Other Important Information
Children are grouped according to their ages and current enrollment. Breakfast, lunch, and two snacks are served each day, unless an all-day field trip requires a lunch packed from home.
We ask that parents commit to at least two days a week, but additional days may be added. Second or third children in the same family will receive a 20% discount.