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Have you registered for school or camp yet?Now may be the time in your area to register for school next year and summer camp. I've included links below about the process we went through last year choosing and registering for kindergarten. Now that we're in kindergarten, our big surprise has been summer camp sign ups - we were previously in a program that had only five consecutive days off during the summer. We didn't realize how lucky we had been or when we needed to sign up for summer camp. After spending countless hours trying to schedule our summer and finally feeling good about it, I was surprised to receive a waitlist email the first evening of new camper registration for what I thought was our new four week day camp... If you haven't registered for camp yet and want/need your kids in camp, I recommend checking the registration deadlines in your area. Our area has a lot of great camps and choosing one required me to think carefully about what was important for us. Our list of what the camp must offer includes: a full day program so we could both work (that means we are paying for post-camp care and some pre-camp care plus it removed all the half-day camps from our list), something B could return to for several weeks in a row so he didn't have to adjust to a new setting every week, a camp where he could run around outside and play lots of different sports/games, and something that wasn't too structured. At first I was looking for camps with projects I'd like - art activities, lego, science projects - before I realized that many camps are mostly indoors. I also realized that as much as I'd like to go to camp and do the cool detective projects, it's really B who will be going and not me. Now I'm looking for an opportunity for B to explore outside, like I was allowed to as a kid, but with someone else I can trust watching him. In order to find this experience, I've talked with lots of moms in my area, at least one person who works at the camp, and I've had to let go of many of my impossible to attain for the price I would like to pay expectations. And because I now understand that my son would be miserable going to a different camp every week, I am going to do a few science experiments with him at home (I'll write up the ones that work), and give B the opportunity to build with lots of legos on the weekends. The registration for our new camp of choice opens this week so I'm hoping we can get in and I don't have to go through another round of figuring out what we are going to do this summer. Helpful information about entering school
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Lucky for us, for now....
Luckily, my daughter's school has a camp so we were the first to be offered the option. My husband wondered why we needed camp at all since it is summer and I don't work. A week of missed school when my daughter was sick answered that question fast! The school and camp have tools and patience I just don't have....especially with a newborn to contend with. On another note, my husband's childhood camp is having a reunion and we are all going up in late August to check it out. He already has dreams of sending our son there someday and our daughter to the sister camp.