So interesting. In Athens, the only day camps that had full-workday coverage were the county's camps (and usually those went 9-4 and you had to pay extra for before and after, but at least they had it) and the YMCA (8-6). Everything else was part-day, and as or more expensive for part-day than we were paying for full-day.
Here the local city rec center has full-day camp, and that's where my kids would be going if I were working; they did Winter Break camp there, and they run the before/after school program at the local elementary. I didn't look hard for full-day options, since we know CRC and I didn't need it anyway. But there are a ton of part-day choices: Zoo, Art Museum, Ballet, various city parks, Nature Center (Casper would love these, but they run 9-2 and are in a far away place, plus pricey) smaller art camps at a local arts center, bookstore, and glassblowing studio... Right now Casper is doing 2 weeks of morning-only "reading camp" at a local University (cost: $80 total; it's part of a program to help them teach their MEd students about reading disabilities, and I hope they can either diagnose her with dyslexia or at least give us some idea of what we can do about her spelling) and 2 days of sleep-away Girl Scout camp ($135.) We're testing the Zoo education programs this weekend, and if she loves it we might do half-day Zoo camp for a week or 2 ($100). We'll fill in with free library and local bookstore stuff.
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Date: 2012-05-17 10:30 pm (UTC)Here the local city rec center has full-day camp, and that's where my kids would be going if I were working; they did Winter Break camp there, and they run the before/after school program at the local elementary. I didn't look hard for full-day options, since we know CRC and I didn't need it anyway. But there are a ton of part-day choices: Zoo, Art Museum, Ballet, various city parks, Nature Center (Casper would love these, but they run 9-2 and are in a far away place, plus pricey) smaller art camps at a local arts center, bookstore, and glassblowing studio... Right now Casper is doing 2 weeks of morning-only "reading camp" at a local University (cost: $80 total; it's part of a program to help them teach their MEd students about reading disabilities, and I hope they can either diagnose her with dyslexia or at least give us some idea of what we can do about her spelling) and 2 days of sleep-away Girl Scout camp ($135.) We're testing the Zoo education programs this weekend, and if she loves it we might do half-day Zoo camp for a week or 2 ($100). We'll fill in with free library and local bookstore stuff.