Providing a camp experience as well as improving reading skills for children are the goals of the summer literacy camps taking place this month and next in the Battlefords.
The literacy camps are free. Start date is July 1. Some camps are full, however there are still spaces available, especially for the Grades 4 to 6 camps, says Kelvin Colliar, Superintendent for Learning with Light of Christ Catholic Schools, which offers the programs jointly with Living Sky School Division.
Participants get free snacks and free books.
At the end of each day, they get to take home a book, says Colliar, and after three weeks they have a library of 15 new books they get to keep.
The camp activities include crafts, reading, songs, writing, games and more, and the literacy camp co-ordinators are classroom teachers, says Colliar.
There are two sessions and they each run three weeks.
July 11-29 the camps run at Holy Family School and Battleford Central School. The mornings, 9 a.m. to noon, are for Grades 1-3 and the afternoons, 1 to 4 p.m., are for Grades 4-6.
After the long weekend in August, a second session begins, with camps being held at St. Mary Community School and McKitrick Community School.
As in the previous session, the mornings, 9 a.m. to noon, are for Grades 1-3 and the afternoons, 1 to 4 p.m., are for Grades 4-6.
For more information about registration for the camps, parents can contact the Light of Christ Schools office at 306-445-6158 or visit the schools.
