Join us for Cub Camp, designed to acclimate incoming Kindergarten students to the beautiful Woodland campus. During this week-long experience your child will have the opportunity to practice foundational concepts through hands-on activities to further develop social and fine motor skills. Children will build a sense of community through collaboration and cooperative play, practice listening skills and transitions, learn math and literacy through arts and crafts, all while exploring and adjusting to their new surroundings on Woodland's beautiful 11 acres!

Our Tennis Camps will inspire and encourage children to do their best. With proven coaching techniques and great amounts of positive reinforcement, our coaches aim to keep your kids engaged and enthusiastic about the exciting sport of tennis.

Join us for a week of artistic connections and summertime fun! Art campers will learn basic drawing techniques and explore many fantastic art forms using different media. As we cut, draw, paint, glitter, glue, rub pastels, and make puppets together, we will be developing our storytelling and team building skills.

Campers will explore the deep blue sea through art in this week's camp. Students will take an ocean adventure, using paint, clay, and other creative materials to make their favorite sea creatures. They will dive into the amazing world of marine life while creating using an array of art techniques to create mixed media art.

Kids’ Carpentry is designed to teach students the safe use of hand tools and general woodworking skills. Through a sequence of projects, young carpenters gain the skill and competence to complete increasingly more complicated projects. From boats to bird feeders, doll furniture, clocks, games, airplanes, and many more, the kids have a wide range of projects to choose from besides designing and building according to their own needs and imagination for the veteran carpenter. Camp lessons will teach students about craftsmanship (the difference between spending a little more time on a project with an entirely different outcome). They also will have a painting station in which instructors will show the students new painting techniques all while learning in a positive and fun environment.

Through class discussions and readings, campers will engage in acting. They will apply these exercises to pieces of text that they will memorize and perform in front of their peers with feedback from the teacher. Campers will enhance their imagination, observation, and concentration skills. There will be some text memorization, class rehearsal with peers, and practicing at home. No previous acting experience is necessary.

Have fun finding and magnifying nature’s smallest creatures, engineer animal habitats, pour plaster casts of animal tracks, make recycled paper, and build a water filter! Create your own blob of “Mad Mucus” and find out what Mr. Owl ate for lunch!

Everyone has some magic in them. Kids will learn the foundational skills to release their inner magician. Some of the skills taught in this class include hand-eye coordination, public speaking, humor, prop making, costuming, and character development. At the end of the course, each student will have a goodie bag of all the props used for the magic taught in class to take home and share with family and friends.

Have a ton of fun as we whip up potions and experiment with all kinds of chemistry, including growing crystals, making sidewalk chalk, and learning the science of chromatography!! Mix it up as we experiment with molecular madness, radical reactions, and “fizz”-ical and chemical reactions. Discover what those chemists are really up to in their laboratories!

Students will learn the basic urban choreography or studio hip-hop. The class will start with warm-up free-styling, stretching and conditioning. It will then move into choreography set to today’s groove worthy jams. This is great fun and an exercise class. It will have students jumping, turning, and moving forwards and backwards.

Explore the basic principles of flight, ride a hovercraft, build airplanes, and construct balloon copters! This hands-on Mad Science program teaches you all about aerodynamics and the world above us! Discover the mysteries of the galaxy, learn how to navigate using the stars, and take home a rocket you build yourself!

Using age-appropriate materials, tools, and building techniques, young engineers learn more about how things work, how they are made, and where good ideas come from. Maker Space will help kids develop a growth mindset, creating a structure for creativity as they build fun projects such as arcade-style games and catapults.

Campers will learn and play a variety of activities. On Olympics day, campers will not only compete in a variety of events but also learn the history of the games. Students will learn best practices of throwing and catching a frisbee along with navigating an obstacle course. The “art of evasion” will be a key focus where campers will learn a variety of jukes, fakes, hesitations, and other movement concepts in tag, capture the flag and dodgeball games. Campers will then have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding with structured gameplay in the second part of class.

Earn, save, spend, donate! Let's learn about money! This innovative program provides a solid foundation on financial literacy for kids in a fun setting. Games and hands-on activities help campers internalize key concepts (like money, budgeting and saving) in an engaging and supportive environment fostering teamwork. This unique experience empowers campers with the mindset to start making sound financial decisions and develop into responsible global citizens.

Listen to the sound of the jungle beat! Children will learn and sing songs from Africa and South America, playing on the big drums and native percussion and Orff instruments. In addition, some beginning piano will be explored in Ms. Julie's piano lab!

It's time for the Sounds of "moo-sic" on the farm! Children will sing songs about farm animals and life on the farm playing an assortment of unpitched percussion and the Orff instruments. In addition some beginning piano will be introduced in Ms. Julie's piano lab!

Let's sell lemonade! Young campers become "lemonade entrepreneurs" and learn how to make yummy lemonade and earn money selling it! From designing marketing flyers to estimating profits to experimenting with recipes, campers have fun all week while developing business savvy. As a showcase event, campers launch the lemonade stand on Friday to raise money for a charity they select!

Set your future space explorers on a trajectory from our Earth’s atmosphere to the outer reaches of our solar system! This hands-on program brings them closer to the stars, planets, comets, and more. They learn about living in space, getting away from gravity, looking for space phenomena, and they participate in a rocket launch!

From decoding messages to metal detectors and night vision, campers check out spy tech equipment and take-home lots of gadgets! Step into the shoes of a detective as you uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis! Figure out the science of forensics and reveal who is behind those crazy capers! Become a super spy and learn clever ways of performing tasks as we take a hands-on view of the science that spies and detectives use!

Using “Dash” a dynamic STEM robot, kids will be formed into teams of up to 5 individuals and will learn how to program their way through a series of increasingly complex missions. These fun activities will encourage creative thinking, problem-solving and teamwork.

This fun camp helps students develop a global mindset and build international awareness early in life, an important skill in today's increasingly interconnected world. Students explore cultural differences across countries, languages, currencies, country flags, geography games, famous landmarks, current global events, diplomacy and come up with solutions to global problems like hunger, poverty and pollution.

Campers will practice fundamental skills such as dribbling, passing, trapping and shooting. In addition, we will learn offensive and defensive strategies, positioning, and transitions. Campers will participate in a variety of fun drills and games to practice their skills and display their understanding in a game scenario. Game concepts and strategies will be implemented during the skill development portion of the class. The second portion of the class will include structured gameplay to apply the skills and concepts learned.

Come make wonderful memories as we make beautiful art and crafts! Some of the projects will include a terracotta potted paper sunflower with sunflower seeds at the roots, beautiful high quality birthday, holiday and thank you cards for family and friends, a 3-D “pencil” filled with chocolates to be gifted to your favorite student or teacher, a flowering tree, paintings of nature, sunprints. You will also take home a canvas painting of your own self-portrait! We will spend time in the beautiful outdoors and in a calm classroom indoors during our time together of creative art-making!

During camp, students will learn technical drawing skills to create a fun cartoon. Each day, the artists will build on their drawing abilities to create rich artwork. We will combine emotion and context to create silly and hilarious stories. The instructor will also teach technical drawing skills in various architectural styles. Each day, the artists will build on their drawing abilities to create rich artwork. We'll spend time doing various 2D and 3D forms of buildings and structures, as well as introduction to perspective drawing. Students will also learn anime style drawing skills through the popular techniques of anime/manga. Each day, the young artists will develop and continue to build on their drawing abilities to create rich anime artwork. For example, we start with the basics of how to draw with simple shapes, then add faces and different expressions, and finally, add in a body performing different actions. Artists will finish the week with a beautiful portfolio of all of their artwork!

In this camp, we will study five artists from various eras and movements. We will learn about their lives, art styles, techniques and mediums. Then comes the fun part: We’ll recreate a few of their most famous pieces, giving each our own mixed media twist! This series is a whimsical and highly enjoyable one – a way to learn about famous artists and their works by getting our own hands dirty and using our “artistic license” at the same time. We go much deeper than your typical artist studies with “fill-in-the-blank” worksheets, coloring pages, or paper crafting. Each piece will be a unique work of art that will help to encourage your child to explore his or her creative talents.

Get ready to discover art from around the world! Students will make cool multicultural creations and discover a treasure trove of creativity with crafts inspired by cultural traditions from across the globe. Their imagination can travel from Japan to Mexico to Sweden and beyond with these unique craft projects.

Campers will work on fundamental skills including dribbling, passing and shooting, and defense. Other skills such as proper footwork, balance, and pursuit angles will also be learned. Game concepts such as knowledge of the various areas of the court along with proper player positioning and specific roles will be implemented during skill development. Campers will participate in a variety of fun drills and games to practice their skills and display their understanding of best practices. The second portion of the class will include structured gameplay to apply the skills and concepts learned.

If you love Shark Tank, this empowering camp is for you! Join other intrepid campers and develop a business plan for your own business idea. You will learn to take risks and persevere, while making business-like decisions about strategy, marketing and finance (optional activities include building a website and designing business cards). Campers build confidence "learning by doing" throughout the week and make their pitch presentations on the last day!

Kids’ Carpentry is designed to teach students the safe use of hand tools and general woodworking skills. Through a sequence of projects, young carpenters gain the skill and competence to complete increasingly more complicated projects. From boats to bird feeders, doll furniture, clocks, games, airplanes, and many more, the kids have a wide range of projects to choose from besides designing and building according to their own needs and imagination for the veteran carpenter. Camp lessons will teach students about craftsmanship (the difference between spending a little more time on a project with an entirely different outcome). They also will have a painting station in which instructors will show the students new painting techniques all while learning in a positive and fun environment.

Campers will learn fundamental skills such as proper throwing, kicking, hitting techniques in addition to rules / concepts such as baserunning (when to run, when to hold, tagging up, etc) Campers will also learn the various positions on the field and their roles. Game theory and strategies will also be implemented during skill development portions of the class. The second half of the class will include structured scrimmage and gameplay to apply skills and concepts.

Through class discussions and readings, campers will engage in acting. They will apply these exercises to pieces of text that they will memorize and perform in front of their peers with feedback from the teacher. Campers will enhance their imagination, observation, and concentration skills. There will be some text memorization, class rehearsal with peers, and practicing at home. No previous acting experience is necessary.

Calling all aspiring filmmakers! Learn the basics of creating and telling a good story in Short Film Camp! Each student will develop their own project and participate in each other's short films. Starting with an intentional idea and storyboard, students will plan and direct their shots for a short story, commercial, or other video. Each day, we'll also present a child-friendly film. The instructor will discuss the film's story and basic tips on film making.

We will have a ton of fun as we whip up potions and experiment with all kinds of chemistry, including growing crystals, making sidewalk chalk, and learning the science of chromatography!! Mix it up as we experiment with molecular madness, radical reactions, and “fizz”-ical and chemical reactions. Discover what those crazy chemists are really up to in their laboratories!

Do you want to learn to garden or just learn some tips to make your green thumb even greener? Then this is the perfect class for you. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener or somewhere in between, this class will teach you how to improve soil, gain knowledge of drought tolerant plants and learn the basics of plant development. Students will make compost, learn the difference between herbs, perennials, annuals and succulents and plant their own plant and learn how to make it grow. Using the wonderful outdoor space of Woodland School, get ready to explore and create or enhance a garden of your own.

Join Ms. Roma for a two week session of making a musical. The half day will be divided between singing, dancing, and acting to prepare a performance for the end of the two week session. Learn about some amazing heroes from the 20th century through The Greatest Americans featuring a Henry Ford rap, a Rosa Parks tribute song, and a high flying duet from the Wright Brothers just to name a few! Everyone plays a part in bringing the story to life. Wear comfortable shoes and prepare for high levels of drama and fun!

Students will learn the basic urban choreography or studio hip-hop. The class will start with warm-up free-styling, stretching and conditioning. It will then move into choreography set to today’s groove worthy jams. This is great fun and an exercise class. It will have students jumping, turning, and moving forwards and backwards.

Explore the basic principles of flight, ride a hovercraft, build airplanes, and construct balloon copters! This hands-on Mad Science program teaches you all about aerodynamics and the world above us! Discover the mysteries of the galaxy, learn how to navigate using the stars, and take home a rocket you build yourself!

How cool would it be for you to be the boss at Apple or Nike for a day? In this leadership program, you can! Campers act as CEOs for leading companies and collaborate to make strategic recommendations to address real business issues. Case studies include popular companies and examine the role of female and minority CEOs. Campers enhance their problem solving skills, develop business savvy and cultivate a strategic mindset as future leaders.

By combining LEGO elements with a programmable brick, motors and sensors, kids can make your creations walk, talk, grab, think, shoot and do almost anything you can imagine! We will build things like a humanoid robot, a shooting scorpion, a slithering snake, a fork lift, a race truck, an electric guitar, a walking dinosaur and many more! Each robot comes complete with its own unique features and a program that controls the robot’s behavior! With our KidzToPros LEGO Robotics camp, you will discover the endless possibilities of LEGO motors and sensors. Students compete in friendly competitions

Magic Camp - Everyone has some magic in them. In this camp, they will learn the foundational skills to release their inner magician. Some of the skills taught in this class include hand - eye coordination, public speaking, humor, prop making, costuming, and character development. At the end of the course, each camper will have a goodie bag of all the props used for the magic taught in the camp to take home and share with family and friends.

Design your own adventures and games that you can share with your friends in Minecraft Coding & Game Design: Adventure Maps! Kids will think through how to make a playable activity, and learn conditionals and event triggering. They will use command blocks, red stones, and more to create Adventure Maps, missions, or games. They will also be able to package their game to send to anyone else to play! Kids will grow in problem-solving and computational thinking as they play one of the most popular and dynamic games in history.

Campers will learn and play a variety of activities. On Olympics day, campers will not only compete in a variety of events but also learn the history of the games. Students will learn best practices of throwing and catching a frisbee along with navigating an obstacle course. The “art of evasion” will be a key focus where campers will learn a variety of jukes, fakes, hesitations, and other movement concepts in tag, capture the flag and dodgeball games. Campers will then have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding with structured gameplay in the second part of class.

Play with beat makers, and use fun and easy tools to create original mixes. Along the way, learn to digitally keep time and tempo and pitch, as we record, sample, and edit. We'll also explore different genres of music and how they use rhythm in different ways. Finally, kids will have some fun dabbling with some introductory DJ tools, and have an ending performance day!

Campers select a food theme, choose an ideal location, identify target customers, design appealing menus, and form a comprehensive business plan covering strategy, marketing, operations and finance, including capital-raising needs. Activities include drafting mission statements, setting prices, estimating expenses and learning key financial metrics. This program offers a tasty way to develop business savvy! Note: no food is handled at camp.

Let's sell lemonade! Young campers become "lemonade entrepreneurs" and learn how to make yummy lemonade and earn money selling it! From designing marketing flyers to estimating profits to experimenting with recipes, campers have fun all week while developing business savvy. As an optional showcase event, campers launch the lemonade stand on Friday to raise money for a charity they select!

Dive into the realms of the Chemical and Physical world in this crazy week of non-stop action – and Reaction! Explore our wonderlab and find eggs that don’t break, ice that doesn’t melt and discover how to freeze time! Perform spectacular hands on experiments and continue the fun at home with the gadgets you’ve designed in the lab!

For the sports lover, future team General Manager, sports team owner or ESPN analyst, this unique program helps campers view the world of sports from a business perspective. Campers participate in fun mock drafts for various sports and analyze different sports topics, including the value of sports teams, player compensation, college sports, endorsements, the Nike vs Under Armour competition, sports agents, the Super Bowl, e-sports and more!

From decoding messages to metal detectors and night vision, campers check out spy tech equipment and take-home lots of gadgets! Step into the shoes of a detective as you uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis! Figure out the science of forensics and reveal who is behind those crazy capers! Become a super spy and learn clever ways of performing tasks as we take a hands-on view of the science that spies and detectives use!

In this one-week course, students will plan and create stop-action animation films using inanimate objects, drawings, and other sources. We will start with looking at some stop-action short films and the magic of flipbooks. Then we will brainstorm a concept, storyboard our ideas, and follow this with photography of the subjects. Once the still photos have been taken, students will edit them together and add sound and effects. At the end of the week, we will share them in a Woodland Summer Camp Animation Film Festival.

Come hear short stories from around the world and have the opportunity to create your own versions of folk tales, fairy tales, fiction, fantasy, and science fiction stories! The students will hear and tell stories, play interactive games, learn theatre skills, and create dramatic tableau scenes from their own stories. If you love storytelling in all its forms, this is an opportunity to hear and tell spell-binding stories in the beautiful outdoors and in a calm classroom! Finally, explore your life experiences and use the power of storytelling to create your own book, which will includes pictures or photos from important moments from your student’s life integrated and woven into an original story.

Our Tennis Camps will inspire and encourage children to do their best. With proven coaching techniques and great amounts of positive reinforcement, our coaches aim to keep your kids engaged and enthusiastic about the exciting sport of tennis.

Campers will learn fundamental skills such as footwork, serving, setting, hitting and passing. Court positions and roles will be learned with additional concepts like game theory and offensive/defensive strategies. Basic rules will also be an area of focus during skill development portions of the class. The second half of class will include structured scrimmage and gameplay to apply skills and concepts.

Whether you love to build things or destroy them, this camp includes lots of both! Design and build structures using simple tools and your imagination! The machine madness starts when you discover how different machines, both simple and complex, are used in our daily lives. Build contraptions using simple machines, experiment with catapults and use your skills to build a robot you get to keep!

Campers will practice fundamental skills such as dribbling, passing, trapping and shooting. In addition, we will learn offensive and defensive strategies, positioning, and transitions. Campers will participate in a variety of fun drills and games to practice their skills and display their understanding in a game scenario. Game concepts and strategies will be implemented during the skill development portion of the class. The second portion of the class will include structured gameplay to apply the skills and concepts learned.

Overcome a series of challenges using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – your imagination! With a little bit of ingenuity you’ll construct catapults and forts, then lay siege to the castle. Assemble your own working light stick to take home a rule the galaxy!

Students will study five artists from various eras and movements, learning about their lives, art styles, techniques, and mediums. Then comes the fun part: We recreate a few of their most famous pieces, giving each our own mixed media twist! This series is a whimsical and highly enjoyable one – a way to learn about famous artists and their works by getting your own hands dirty and using “artistic license” at the same time. Each piece will be a unique work of art that will help to encourage your child to explore his or her creative talents.

Come make wonderful memories as we make beautiful art and crafts! Some of the projects will include a terracotta potted paper sunflower with sunflower seeds at the roots, beautiful high quality birthday, holiday and thank you cards for family and friends, a 3-D “pencil” filled with chocolates to be gifted to your favorite student or teacher, a flowering tree, paintings of nature, sunprints. You will also take home a canvas painting of your own self-portrait! We will spend time in the beautiful outdoors and in a calm classroom indoors during our time together of creative art-making!

In this stylish program for boys and girls, campers gain knowledge of the fashion industry and develop skills in fashion design, fashion marketing, fashion journalism and branding. Campers develop sketching skills, explore popular brands, analyze industry trends (e.g., athleisure), design various articles of clothing, define their own brand, explore careers in fashion and more!

Campers will work on fundamental skills including dribbling, passing and shooting, and defense. Other skills such as proper footwork, balance, and pursuit angles will also be learned. Game concepts such as knowledge of the various areas of the court along with proper player positioning and specific roles will be implemented during skill development. Campers will participate in a variety of fun drills and games to practice their skills and display their understanding of best practices. The second portion of the class will include structured gameplay to apply the skills and concepts learned.

Broadway Scenes will be a mix of ensemble and solo performance. Students will start with vocal and body warm ups and learn about best practices for keeping your instrument healthy and in shape. Groups will connect and create together with improv and drama games. Rehearsal will be divided between whole group chorus numbers with group singing and dancing and individual or small group study for solo or duet numbers. Students will create and perform a Broadway Revue on the last day of the week. Possible show numbers include selections from Annie, Suessical, School House Rock, and Music Man. Performances will be personalized for the group with a focus on building confidence for new performers or polishing already strong skills from more experienced thespians. No previous theater experience is necessary, all levels welcome!

Continuing from Broadway Scenes Week 1, this class will be a chance to try a new chorus number. Students can also build on the small ensemble work of the previous week or start a whole new solo piece! Students will start with vocal and body warm ups and learn about best practices for keeping your instrument healthy and in shape. Groups will connect and create together with improv and drama games. Rehearsal will be divided between whole group chorus numbers with group singing and dancing and individual or small group study for solo or duet numbers. Students will create and perform a Broadway Revue on the last day of the week. Possible show numbers include selections from Annie, Suessical, School House Rock, and Music Man. Performances will be personalized for the group with a focus on building confidence for new performers or polishing already strong skills from more experienced thespians. No previous theater experience is necessary, all levels welcome! Attending Broadway Scenes I is not a requirement.

Campers will learn fundamental skills such as proper throwing, kicking, hitting techniques in addition to rules / concepts such as baserunning (when to run, when to hold, tagging up, etc) Campers will also learn the various positions on the field and their roles. Game theory and strategies will also be implemented during skill development portions of the class. The second half of the class will include structured scrimmage and gameplay to apply skills and concepts.

Think on your feet, cooperate with your scene partners, and build a story. Campers will focus on character development in this camp. We will play a variety of active games to teach the basics of theater and improvisation and put on our own performance.

Campers will learn and play a variety of activities. On Olympics day, campers will not only compete in a variety of events but also learn the history of the games. Students will learn best practices of throwing and catching a frisbee along with navigating an obstacle course. The “art of evasion” will be a key focus where campers will learn a variety of jukes, fakes, hesitations, and other movement concepts in tag, capture the flag and dodgeball games. Campers will then have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding with structured gameplay in the second part of class.

In digital 3D Modeling, kids create their own characters, environment, and objects to be used in a video game. The course is a unique blend of art and technology that will bring students closer to modern and future creation of video games and animated films. Campers will manipulate 3D shapes to emulate real-life objects, and then add lighting effects. Next, they will enhance their models with textures, shading, sculpting, and rigging for animation. They will finish with an introduction to cartoon character modeling.

Play with beat makers, and use fun and easy tools to create original mixes. Along the way, learn to digitally keep time and tempo and pitch, as we record, sample, and edit. We'll also explore different genres of music and how they use rhythm in different ways. Finally, kids will have some fun dabbling with some introductory DJ tools, and have an ending performance day!

Students will plan and create stop-action animation films using inanimate objects, drawings, and other sources. We will start with looking at some stop-action short films and the magic of flipbooks. Then we will brainstorm a concept, storyboard our ideas, and follow this with photography of the subjects. Once the still photos have been taken, students will edit them together and add sound and effects. At the end of the week, we will share them in a Woodland Summer Camp Animation Film Festival.

Campers will learn fundamental skills such as footwork, serving, setting, hitting and passing. Court positions and roles will be learned with additional concepts like game theory and offensive/defensive strategies. Basic rules will also be an area of focus during skill development portions of the class. The second half of class will include structured scrimmage and gameplay to apply skills and concepts.

For the sports lover, future team General Manager, sports team owner or ESPN analyst, this unique program helps campers view the world of sports from a business perspective. Campers participate in fun mock drafts for various sports and analyze different sports topics, including the value of sports teams, player compensation, college sports, endorsements, the Nike vs Under Armour competition, sports agents, the Super Bowl, e-sports and more!