Summer Day Camp
Register
for Summer Day Camp 2008 Now!
The Growing Stage Summer Arts Day Camp is a program designed
for children who are eligible for kindergarten
in the fall of 2008 through students who have completed eighth
grade in June of 2008. This program is one of
exposure and participation in the performing arts, wherein
children are encouraged to work together in a creative endeavor
toward a common goal.
 The
theater arts offer a channel for a child's natural gifts of
imagination and roleplaying. Through theater arts, children
sharpen their creativity, improve their communication skills,
gain self-confidence, and learn the importance of teamwork.
Above all, children enjoy becoming a part of the magic that
they create on the stage.
Our program is designed to offer children an introduction
to many aspects of theatre arts through creative games, music,
dance, art, and theatre. More experienced children are additionally
challenged through these same elements of the performing arts.
Each of our five sessions ahs a specific theme and concludes
with an evening performance for friends and family.
Again this summer, our program includes stage movement, dance,
musis, art, creative games, theatre techniques, and writing.
Each session has its own theme, and children are encouraged
to contribute to the creation of the skits, choreography,
sets, props, and design of our culminating activity - our
performance for friends and families on the evening of the
last day of each camp session. It is an exciting, week-long
process of cooperation, creativity, discovery, practice and
performance.
 Our
camp is under the direction of Laura Petrie, who has been
an active member of our creative staff since our inception.
Currently a teacher of language arts in the Hackettstown Middle
School, Laura has over twenty years of teaching experience
which includes; extensive work in theatre arts, creative writing,
and music. Our staff consists of carefully selected, trained
professionals in the fields of theatre, dance, music, and/or
education. Our counselors are high school and college students who are interested in pursuing careers in education, theatre, or the fine arts.
| A Typical Day
At Camp |
| Arrival 9 AM: |
Greet new friends and counselors in theatre. |
| 9:05 - 9:30: |
Large group activities to warm-up the actor's tools:
voice, body, and imagination. |
| 9:30-10:15: |
Small group class section #1 begins. Children move with
a counselor to the first assigned classroom station for
lessons in music, dance, drama, or stage crafts. |
| 10:15-11:00: |
Small group session #2 |
| 11:00-11:45: |
Small group session #3 |
| 11:45-12:15: |
Lunch break. Children bring a bag lunch to camp each
day. During this half hour, students congregate in the
theatre to relax, socialize, and eat there lunches. |
| 12:15-12:30: |
"Cool down" games to refocus our energies toward our
creative tasks. |
| 12:30 - 1:15: |
Small group session #4 |
| 1:15 - 2:00: |
Rehearsal for our Camp Show! |
| Dismissal promptly at 2:00 PM |
We maintain a 12 to 1 ratio of campers
to counselors. Class sizes are limited to preserve this ratio.
Session groups are determined by children's age/grade in
school. Activities are tailored to the children's ages.
 Please
Note: All children will be provided with a journal
or scrapbook, which they will add to daily as a learning log
and memento of their week at camp.
Each camper is given a Camp 2008 T-shirt.
Your registration fee is the only cost - there
are no additional fees connected with the camp.
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