Camp Saint Nicholas

Summertime 2008: An Experience in Growth

New expanded camp dates: June 1^st through September 1^st. Camp will be closed July 4^th and September 4^th. There will be thirteen weeks of exciting activities!

The week of August 14^th an optional special camp will be offered. It will be a traditional Texas Hill Country Camp or Rancho Texcelente IXL Equine Camp with Paso Fino horses. These special camps are open to students eight and older. The cost is expected to be approximately $360.

The Ongoing Camp Theme for SNS is World Travel: Using travel information, the globe, maps, videos, biome environments, cultures, recreation, and languages will be explored. Campers will be stimulated to be creative and challenged intellectually while they grow in responsibility, goal setting, social skills, and recreational skills.

Uniforms and Supplies

Uniform Requirements are available at the front desk and five complete sets per week are needed. They are ordered on the internet at the school website. Students must be in complete official uniform every day, and cannot leave campus otherwise. Sunscreen should be applied before coming to school and also brought. Water bottles are needed for off campus events. Some activities and field trips will have special needs of which you will be informed by note. Please send in the bag every day: school cap, gym shorts and T-shirt, socks and underwear, swimsuit and small towel, and a zip-lock bag for wet clothes.

Focus On Camp Activities

• In the beautiful SNS indoor and outdoor environments activities are led by qualified and mature year-round SNS faculty and staff.
• Ongoing academic exploration in English, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Science and Computer topics in the enriched interactive classrooms.
• The expanded private music program includes both the traditional and Soft Mozart computer programs. The fee is $80 per month.
• All activities, meals, and field trips are included in tuition.
• Academic, Montessori, coaching, art, music, Spanish, French, Latin, computers, gardening, and pets are all included.
• Field trips off campus begin at age five, swimming begins at age six, and off campus camps begin at age eight.
• A full time coach is on campus.

Routine Camp Activities:
All students, according to maturity and interests, explore the campus.
	Science and nature activities include animal and plant classification drawings and collections, biospheres, nature walks, nest and skeleton collections, growing earthworms and mealworms, pet care.
	Sports and outdoor activities include playground games, softball, soccer, volleyball, croquet, badminton, skating, running and field activities, and splash and sand.
	Expanded time for art and art history, authors and literature, science, geography, music history, composers, music and movement, academic contest preparation, drama, gymnastics, nature, games and sports, practical life, gardening, and animal care
Practical life activities will include cooking and nutrition, gardening, inviting parents and grandparents, movies and videos, sewing, manners, safety, bus and rail transportation, chess and board games, and babysitting.
	· Computer Centers and technology instruction for ages six and up
Neighborhood project, cleanup and planting
	Expanded music theory and playing simple instruments
Geography and science, garden and animal projects
	Wading pool and sand activities, sprinkler, sink and float toys
Exploring pet and garden areas and exhibits in the older classrooms
	Hot meals: breakfast, lunch, and supper, and snacks and box lunches for days out.
Special Programs On Campus:
Thirteen or more programs will be selected from the following, at least one per week suitable for each age group three and older.
	Community Helpers: Firemen, Fire truck, Police Car, Helicopter, Mounted Patrol, parent professions
Texas Snakes and More: 10 different snakes, turtle, snake skins, skeletons, fangs, and a poster “Venomous Snakes of Southwest Texas” poster.
	Professions: medicine, law, ministry, accounting, parent professions
	Athletes
	Houston Zoomobile: programs such as Texas Animals; Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles
Museum of Natural Science: Wildlife on Wheels, Discovery Dome
Museum of Health and Medical Science: Health Adventure
Houston Area Wildlife and Rehabilitation
TUTS Professional Theatre Team
	The Gentle Giants: Performing Large Birds
Museum of Natural Science Programs: Discovery, Energy, Wildlife
Nature Discovery Center, Bellaire, Traveling Exhibits: The Wetlands
Building Your Family Tree: Beginning Genealogy
	Off Campus Field Trips: Dolphins: Elementary/Middle School Program: Ages 8+
· Off campus athletics include tennis and swimming, and basketball. · Swimming lessons will be offered for one session followed by free swim. Stella Link Library will be a regular visit, twice per month.
Thirteen Field trips will be scheduled from the following:
	Elissa, the Texas Seaport Museum, Pier 21 Theatre, Strand Discovery Tour, and Galveston Harbor Tours aboard Seagull II
	A&M University Galveston Marsh and Wetland Marine Biology Field Trip
Exxon Refinery, Galveston Bay Foundationand Texas City Prairie Preserve
Bayou Wildlife Park, Endangered Species Program, Alvin, exotic animals
Houston Museum of Natural Science: Butterfly Center, Planetarium, Imax, Explore Science and Nature activities, The Royal Tombs of Ur: Ancient Treasures from Iraq, Interactive Science Labs
· Museum of Health and Medical Science: Science Class or Science Theatre, Organ Dissection demonstration, Theatre presentation, and Scavenger Hunt
· A.D. Players: The Big Dipper
· Central Library by Metro Rail
	George Observatory at Brazos Bend State Park
	Museum of Fine Arts
Houston Zoo
	Forbidden Gardens, Katy, Imperial China exhibit
	Fun-Plex miniature golf, bowling
	Express Children’s Theatre
	Miller Outdoor Theatre and Picnic
	Off Campus Field Trips: Redfish: Ages 6 or 7
	· Off campus athletics include swimming lessons for one session and free swim · Stella Link Library will be a regular visit, twice per month Thirteen Field trips will be chosen from the following:
Museum of Fine Arts
Fort Bend Museum School Programs: Three from: Gallery Tour, Textiles, Archeology, Cottage, One Room Schoolhouse, Chore Time, Victorian Games, Walking Tour Law and Order, Morton Cemetery
Museum of Health and Medical Science
Museum of Health and Natural Science
Armand Bayou Nature Center
Forbidden Gardens, Katy, Imperial China exhibit
Hermann Park Fishing, Picnic, Cabin, and Water Park Play
	Palace Lanes Bowling
	AD Players: The Big Dipper
	Miller Outdoor Theatre and Picnic
Houston Zoo
Oil Ranch
Off Campus Field Trips: Sunfish: Ages 5 or 6
· Stella Link Library will be a regular visit, twice per month Field Trips include:

• Museum of Health and Medical Science
• American Cowboy Museum
• Houston Fire Museum
• Houston Museum of Natural Science: Exhibits,
  Butterfly Center, Exploring Science and Nature
  activities and Focused Field Trips
• Nature Discovery Center, Bellaire, Beginning Bird watching
• San Jacinto Museum of History: Texas History movie,
  special exhibits, San Jacinto Battleground State Historical
  Park, and the Battleship Texas
• Houston Zoo
• Oil Ranch
• Hermann Park Water
  Park, Log Cabin, Picnic