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What are people doing for their bs summer camps?
I've got 2 weeks of summer camp in August, I'm supposed to organise it. Has anything worked for anyone?

[BS.Dos.]

I've done one Winter Camp, but this'll be my first Summer Camp although, it's only for 2-days (20th and 21st July) with just the one night away. I've no idea what I'll be doing though or what I'm supposed to do.

[spliff]

I believe the OP is thinking about the "in school" camp. Task based project work works best for me.

[Bibbitybop]

I do some real studying half the time and then playing games half the time. Unless it's Friday, then I do games the whole time.

Sentence scavenger hunt is good. Take index cards and hide them all over the school and the grounds outside. Kids find the cards, then they must write as many sentences as possible using their words. Only correct sentences earn points.

"The" "A" "Dog" "Ran" "Quickly"

The dog ran quickly.
A dog ran quickly.
The dog ran.
A dog ran.

[tree]

It's going to be an in-school camp. Thanks for the idea's I will use them.

What class sizes would you recommend?
Did you have the same students for 2 weeks straight?

[Bibbitybop]

The situation will differ school to school.

I had 15 students per class, 2 classes per day with a total of 4 classes (kids come every other day).

[crazy_arcade]

This should really be discussed with your co-teachers first.

It will differ from school to school.

Some schools prefer a fun camp....others prefer a hard study camp.

[icnelly]

Here's a link to my GEPIK Esnip's page for camps:

Winter Camp 2007-8

And, here are links to Rob Mcelroy's GEPIK camp pages:

Summer Camps

Winter Camps

Use what you can and hopefully you'll be given the room to make your camps enjoyable!

EDIT: These were designed for elementary camps.

[Otherside]

posting here, so I can find these links closer to the time.

[poet13]

"I do some real studying half the time and then playing games half the time. Unless it's Friday, then I do games the whole time.

Sentence scavenger hunt is good. Take index cards and hide them all over the school and the grounds outside. Kids find the cards, then they must write as many sentences as possible using their words. Only correct sentences earn points.

"The" "A" "Dog" "Ran" "Quickly"

The dog ran quickly.
A dog ran quickly.
The dog ran.
A dog ran."

Cool!

[Easter Clark]

My high school wants something straightforward. The students will be very low-level, so I was just going to buy a book to use with them, planning various classroom activities. We only have access to the English Zone. Last year I tried to get the computer lab but they don't trust me with that many students on the school computers (for some reason)...

What have those of you with low-level (High School) students done in the past to have a successful camp?

For our Winter camp I used the "Extra English" video series. We did "discussion" related to the video (you can get the workbook and videos from esnips) the first half of class, then watched the video the second half. Finally they role-played the video. It worked very well, but I don't want to do the same thing this summer, since some of the same students will be coming.

[ttompatz]

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This was our summer camp 2006, winter 2006 and summer 2007.

I hope it can give some people a few ideas that they can use or expand on. Task based and TPR for elementary school students.

Scale it up for Ms and HS students.

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In order to kill the boredom I have decided to base our school's summer camp on a number of daily themes. These are LOW budget but fun and have enough variety to keep even the most bored students of any level (elementary to high school) busy for a few hours. Just adjust the material for the appropriate age / ability level.

If you have 2 camps - 1 each week with different students / grades / levels then you can recycle materials and themes. You can expand this to more days by adding more themes.

Day 1 - Magic day. Put them into small groups and get them to learn some simple magic tricks AND the DIALOGUE that goes with it.
For the last hour of the day we will have a magic show.

Day 2 - Simple first aid classes. Learn the basics of first aid. Do this as a hands on activity rather than just lectures. They can use triangular bandages to splint each other up and bandage each other. It will easily take 4 hours. Show how to make a simple first aid kit.

Day 3 - Have a science day. Make rockets out of 600ml soda bottles or juice bottles. Give small prizes for best designs and best flights. Power them with vinegar and baking soda. Do other science projects and tie the project to the language.

Day 4 - Circus day. Create carnival style games of chance and have them compete. Use language activities to "earn" tickets to play. Face painting and fun for all.

Day 5 - Campfire - fun day - do your video here just for fun. Then do some skits around a makeshift campfire. Play with the day and have fun.

For the winter camp we did:

Day 1 - Travel day. 1st class - we will learn some vocabulary for travel and vacations. 2nd class - Students will draw a picture about their dream vacation place and then talk about what they would like to do on a vacation. 3rd class � Students will make a vacation plan (poster) for their family. 4th class � Students will watch a musical slide show of fun vacation activities.


Day 2 - Winter fun. 1st class � Students will learn some vocabulary and names for different winter sports. 2nd class � Students will learn about different winter sports from other countries. These would include things like Curling, Hockey, Broomball, Bobsledding and Tobogganing. 3rd class � Students will make a quickie kite. In the 4th class we will go outside and fly our kites.

Day 3 � Earth day. 1st class � Students will learn some vocabulary for environmental protection. 2nd class � Trash: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle what do these really mean? Talk about them. 3rd class � Watch a video or slide show about endangered species. 4th class - As a class exercise � talk and write about what can we do?

Day 4 � Tongue twisters and language fun. In the 1st class we will llearn and practice a tongue twister. In the 2nd class we will learn and practice a joke. In the 3rd class each student will make a word search puzzle for fun. In the 4th class students will do a word search puzzle.

Day 5 � Camp closing. In the 1st class we will do some fun games and activities. In the 2nd class we will watch a short English animation about winter fun. In the 3rd class let�s make hotdogs and hot chocolate. In the 4th class � Let�s eat hotdogs and hot chocolate.

For summer camp this year we are planning:

1) Reading and Tongue Twister Day - day 2. In the 2nd and 3rd periods we will read a book, write a short book report and then we will present our book reports to the class. In the 4th class we will learn a tongue twister and play a game.

2) Cowboy for a day - In the 1st class we will make a cowboy hat. In the 2nd class we will have our spring roundup activity (matching words game). In the 3rd class we will learn the cowboy lullaby. In the 4th class we will make our "critter" booklet.

3) The Teddy Bear's Picnic - day 3. In the 1st class we will identify and talk about different foods. In the 2nd class we will draw our favorite picnic meal on a paper plate and show the class. In the 3rd class we will make a paper picnic basket and learn the poem "My Picnic Basket". In the 4th class we can play picnic bingo.

4) Science Day - day 4. In the 1st period we will talk about the solar system. In the 2nd period we will make a solar system model. In the 3rd and 4th periods we will show, make and fly a simple plastic kite. If there is no wind we will play a game.

5) Carnival Day - day 5. This is meant to be a fun day for our close. We will do face painting, have carnival games of chance, make hot dogs and have our classroom campfire. In the 4th period we will have a survey and our closing.

Hope that helps someone.

[icnelly]

For science day, or project day take a look at this PBS site. It's got some really great low budget and easy to get into projects. I use them for my elementary students, but am sure middle schoolers would get into them too.

[ddeubel]

I'd urge all teachers to take the opportunity to use their school's computer labs. At this time of year, they are readily available. They offer the opportunity for students to really get some great "learning" started and will foster their own growth as self learners -- the real goal of our jobs seeing that it is impossible for us to "teach" English in any true sense.

Throw up several activities on the whiteboard for students to work on. Name sites and activity. After that, allow them to do what they want from a list of sites. You should allow them choice.

As the students work -- call them out in groups of 3/4. They get basic conversation practice with you for 5-10 min. Then the next group.

You won't have ONE problem with student behavior and will finish the day more refreshed than you ever would in your regular teaching. Amazing how teaching -- when you take the focus off yourself, can be an energizing and non stressed thing. Look at the folder of great learning links at our buzka http://eflclassroom.buzka.com In particular the spot Web 2.0 . Also, lots of click and play pages on EFL Classroom of stories/games for web 2.0 learning.....

Easter -- glad someone used the Extra English series I put together. You can now get it directly on EFL Classroom's practice page. A great series, wildly popular in Europe and of interest to young learners (teens).

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

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