Camp LearnALot

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CampLearn-A-Lot

• South Western School District
• Elementary Summer School

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Program Overview

• Who South Western Elementary students in grades
  1-4 who have received reading or learning support
  services during the school year.
• What This camp is a supplemental reading and
  math program offered during the summer.
• Where Held in a district elementary building
  that is able to support the number of students
  attending.
• When Monday through Thursday during the month
  of July. The day is from 830 a.m. to 1200 p.m.
• Why To increase motivation for academic
  learning and to reinforce reading and math skills
  learned during the school year.

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Program Overview

• Class size limited to 15 or less.
• Certified elementary teacher and instructional
  aide per classroom.
• IEPs were not followed for learning support
  students.
• Learning support teacher rotated through the
  classrooms to assist and taught small groups.

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Preparation

• Staff meets during school year to meet each other
  and prepare for the campers.
• Theme
• Job Responsibilities
• Purchase Orders
• T-Shirts
• Parent Meeting
• Held 1-2 weeks prior to camp starting.
• Students meet teachers and receive t-shirts to
  wear the first day.
• Parents complete emergency paperwork and field
  trip permissions.
• Transportation department representative is on
  hand to answer questions.
• Time for questions and answers.

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Scheduling

• Time allotments
• 1 hour 15 minutes LA Block
• 1 hour 15 minutes Math Block
• 15 minutes Recess / Snack
• 30 minutes Camp Time
• 15 minutes Wrap-up
• Transportation
• The transportation department handled all of
  bussing needs for Camp Learn-A-Lot.
• Regina Krysiak regina_krysiak_at_swsd.k12.pa.us

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Camp Time

• Rotating schedule of activities
• Large group Camp Time
• Music
• Physical Activities
• Small group Camp Time
• Crafts
• Cooking
• Wrap-Up
• Reviewed announcements
• Sang class chants and camp theme song
• Organized dismissal

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Field Trips

• Educational and background building experiences
• Pizza Hut
• Martins Potato Chip Factory Tour
• Thomasville Airport
• Eichelberger Performing Arts Center
• The Evening Sun
• Revonah Pretzel Factory

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Codorus State Park Cookout

• Center-based outdoor activities for the entire
  camp
• Students rotate through centers involving
• Math - Environmental Activities
• Reading - Snacks
• Games - Crafts
• Scavenger Hunt - Cooking
• Lunch is prepared cookout style by teachers and
  staff.
• Local stores can donate materials if you write a
  letter of request on school letterhead.

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Parent Day

• Parents activity during the camp day
• Stations to create learning games related to LA
  and Math.
• Technology speaker
• Parent/student activity during the camp day
• Magician
• Story Teller

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Funding

• Title 1 money set aside year One
• District Funded Remaining years
• Approximately 25,000 for 200 students per summer
• (125 per pupil expenditure)
• Cost includes salaries, materials, food,
  transportation, incentives, speakers, parent
  involvement activities, field trips

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Assessment

• Database of multiple criteria used to track
  academic success.
• Reading Specialists evaluate student progress to
  determine reading support needs in the new school
  year
• A personal anecdote

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IST
Building
Math Timed Fluency (4th only)
Bchmk. Level (1st 2nd)
In Learning Support
Sum. Sch. Attend. 15 Days
Student Name
Current Grade
1st MP Rdg. Grade
Writing Grade
Spelling Grade
Comments
Title 1 / Reading Recovery
Teacher 2005
Retained

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Expansion

• Summer 2003
• Title 1 students only
• Grades 1-3
• 2 first grades, 2 second grades, 1 third grade
• Dr. Manga Coordinator
• Summer 2004
• Reading support and Learning Support students
• Grades 1-3
• 4 first grades, 2 second grades, 4 third grades
• 1 Learning Support teacher
• Each teacher had a classroom aide
• Teacher Coordinator
• Summer 2005
• Reading support and Learning Support students
• Grades 1-4
• 4 first grades, 3 second grades, 3 third grades,
  2 fourth grades
• 1 Learning Support teacher

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Contacts

• Dr. Jil Manga, Supervisor of Reading
• Jil_Manga_at_swsd.k12.pa.us
• Wendy Currey, Coordinator 2004
• Wendy_Currey_at_swsd.k12.pa.us
• Jenn Wilson, Coordinator 2005
• Jenn_Wilson_at_swsd.k12.pa.us
• Handouts available at
• http//www.swsd.k12.pa.us/jenn_wilson/
• Camp_Learn_a_Lot.htm
• Regina Krysiak, Director of Transportation
• Regina_Krysiak_at_swsd.k12.pa.us

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We Love Camp

• C reative
• A cademic
• M usical
• P arental involvement
• L iterature
• E nriching experiences
• A rt
• R emembering
• N umbers
• A dventures
• L aughter
• O utings
• T ogetherness

Learn-A-Lot