Parents regularly ask if they are allowed to enroll in Montessori House Summer Camp.  The reports they hear from their children -- and what they witness for themselves on our playground -- is so exciting, fun, and valuable, they wish they could experience it firsthand. 

Summer Camp only enrolls new, returning or former students of The Montessori House or their siblings who are ages 3 to 8.

“It’s Camp … NOT school!” 

Montessori House Summer Camp features a different theme each week. Our Camp Counselors create a varied set of experiences and activities based on that theme. 

Examples of recent themes:

• “Bugs”
• “20th Century Art: Picasso and Rockwell”
• “Frog and Toad”
• “Fitness”
• “The Circus”
• “Dance”
• “Carnevale”
• “The Olympics”
• “The Farm”

The emphasis is on experiential learning: on The Farm campers milk an ersatz cow; for 20th Century Art they dress up and pantomime Rockwell paintings; in Dance they hear music and learn dances from around the world.

Every day includes various themed activities and crafts, plenty of playtime, “The Beach” (one of our sandboxes plus sprinklers and water toys) and lunch.  Following lunch, the children gather for a brief time in circle to share conversation and songs with the counselors until it’s time for pickup at 1:00 p.m.

 

 

Although Camp is not school, in one important respect our Summer Camp borrows from the Montessori Method.

Camp activities are structured in units so that once a child is introduced to an activity, the child can choose independently when to pursue and complete it throughout the week. Summer Camp builds on the foundation of self-directed curiosity developed in the Montessori classroom

Roughly 30 campers attend Summer Camp. They are guided by two adult Senior Counselors, two Counselors (age 17 to 21), and three to six Junior Counselors (ages 9 to 13). They are all hands-on, and children have plenty of supervision and help throughout the day.