1. PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT’S SUMMER READING & LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM
CAMP DISCOVER 2017
PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT’S
SUMMER READING & LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM

2. introductions Meet the Camp Discover Coordinators… Meet our leader…
Nikki Gelfo
Reading Kratzer
Camp Discover Kratzer
Lori Schellhamer
Learning Support Kratzer
Andrea Marzano
Reading Kernsville
Camp Discover Jaindl
Rebecca Miltenberger
Learning Support Jaindl
Meet our leader…
Marge Evans, Coordinator of Data, Assessment, and Federal Programs
All Coordinators introduce themselves.

3. DISCOVER READING by elaine haberman
We hope while here at Camp Discover, the joy of reading you’ll uncover. You can be a world traveler, or learn how to cook. Be a famous detective, sail the seas with Captain Hook. Read…to explore the moon…to do your math. Find the best way to give your pet a bath. Wherever you go, whatever you need, To discover the answer… READ! READ! READ!
Andrea

4. History
Began in the summer of 1997… Happy 20th Anniversary, CAMP DISCOVER!
Created because of a need for summer reading practice in order to maintain skills and strategies.
Purpose: To motivate reluctant readers through science and discovery; to provide reading practice
Candidates: Title I Reading, Learning Support (reading IEP goals), and ESL program participants in grades K, 1, and 2
Site #1 (northern schools): Kratzer (Ironton, Kernsville, Kratzer, Schnecksville)
Site #2 (southern schools): Jaindl (Cetronia, Fogelsville, Jaindl, Parkway Manor)
Andrea

5. staff
2 Camp each site – one reading specialist & one learning support teacher
Kratzer: Ms. Nikki Gelfo & Mrs. Lori Schellhamer
Jaindl: Mrs. Andrea Marzano & Mrs. Rebecca Miltenberger
13 or more Camp Counselors (instructors) per site
All are Parkland employees
Trained instructors
each site every day during the Camp hours
each site or on call during the Camp hours
Children are always supervised.
Nikki

6. Dates & hours
July 10 – 11 – 12 – 13, 2017 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
July 17 – 18 – 19 – 20, 2017 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Camp hours are 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM each day.
We encourage all Campers to make every effort to attend each session. Attendance is imperative to assure continuity for each student.
Allentown YMCA’s child care program, Y-Care, will be offered at each site on the days that Camp Discover is in session.
Y-Care hours begin before Camp at 7:00 AM until Camp begins at 8:30 AM.
Y-Care hours then continue at the end of Camp at 3:00 PM until 6:00 PM.
Y-Care participation is optional and will require an additional fee that is charged by the YMCA.
Nikki

7. A day at camp discover Arrival of students begins at 8:25 AM
Reread the take home book from the previous day to staff
Shared Reading
Grade level text used to build knowledge through content-rich informational text
Individualized Reading
Themed books in 5 different text complexity bands
Enable students to become subject matter experts
Morning snack
Students must bring their own healthy snack each day.
Purposeful Play or Art/Music/Movement Activities
Becky

8. A day at camp discover Recess Lunch Informational Writing
Students must bring their own healthy lunch each day.
Informational Writing
Students will use the information they have learned from their individualized reading to create their own book!
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, & Math) Activities
Special Activities
Parkland Public Library
Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program
Prepare for dismissal
The children will take home a book each night to read to parents and then return the next day.
Dismissal of students at 3:00 PM
Becky

9. Parent information Complete the Camp Discover Application Form
Check if you are interested in having your child attend the Y-Care day care program before and/or after Camp.
More information will be sent to you at a later date.
Complete the Personal Data Form.
Be sure to list all food and/or medical allergies on this form.
The Camp Discover nurse will be in contact with you to discuss the medical needs of your child while at Camp.
$35 fee for consumable materials and supplies.
Cash or check made payable to Parkland School District.
Please see one of the Coordinators if circumstances prevent you from providing this fee.
Return Application Form, Personal Data Form & $35 fee by Wed., April 19, 2017.
Lori

10. Parent information
Provide a healthy snack and lunch for your child each day.
Be on time for drop off and pick up.
You are invited to bring your child into the school on the first day of Camp.
Each site has a drop off and pick up procedure that we ask parents to follow each day.
Read with your child each night.
Help your child to remember to return his/her bag to Camp each day.
Write a note to the Coordinators if plans change for pick up.
Provide a phone # for the person doing pick up.
Join us at the end of the last day of Camp for a special activity with parents!
Lori
Special activity for end of Camp – You will be able to help your child select books to keep.

11. Camp discover song (to the tune of Camp town races)
Camp Discover is the one, in summer, in summer. For reading and for having fun, come with us today! We’re going to read and write, experiment and play. Learning is for everyone the Camp Discover way! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray, Camp Discover!!
Nikki will sing this song for all to sing along.

12. Thank you for attending the Camp Discover Parent Information Night!
See you on July 10th!