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- Summer Camp Registration Opens!
- Try Our Scavenger Hunt - There are Great Prizes!
- We Have a World Champion on Staff!
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Summer Camp Registration Opens Soon! |
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We are so excited! Fall not only brings beautiful colours but it also means that Summer Camp Registration for summer 2023 is opening soon. So, get ready!
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Remember to mark your calendars, as spaces fill up very quickly! More information will be available through our website. Keep an eye out for a letter emailed out to returning Summer Camp families announcing the opening of registration.
Summer 2023 is going to be an incredible summer! We’ve tweaked our sessions to respond to your requests. We’ve added more one-week sessions to the summer camp roster, for those who want to try a camp for the first time.
And as always, we’ll continue to offer our classic 2-week sessions, as well as Day Camp, Kinder Camp, and our popular three-night nature session (Session N).
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Whichever session is right for you and your camper, we're looking forward to welcoming all our campers to CK for another unforgettable summer filled with memories, lasting friendships, and those irreplaceable WOW moments! Summer Camp 2023 here we come!
Emma Robert (Geller)
Summer Camp Director
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The Ontario Trillium Foundation Kept Us Afloat! |
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We have written in this newsletter before about the impacts of COVID-19. Like every business we were shut down, then opened partially, then opened with some precautions in place. The last three years have been such a challenge, not the least of which is financially. As a not-for-profit charity we, like many others, will spend years trying to recover.
They stepped in to help with our staffing costs, the development of on-line resources, and to offset ongoing expenses such as utilities and purchasing PPE equipment to keep both our staff and visitors safe! It was a major boost during a tenuous, even threating situation. We would have been hard pressed to continue to offer our award-winning programming without this assistance.
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Thanks to a very generous donation from the Morton Family, we are creating a beautiful interactive garden in and round our Health Centre. The garden will promote nature connection, mindfulness, and well-being by encouraging children to engage with nature. The garden features a lovely water feature with small stream tumbling over rocks and whimsical benches carved from logs.
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Other features will include:
· A Zen Garden – providing opportunities for kids to express themselves through creative designs
· A Sensory Garden – by including plants with beautiful, smells, textures, and colour
· A Critter Friendly Garden – with native shrubs such as Nannyberry, Serviceberry, Honeysuckle, Ninebark to attract birds. We will also be installing bird houses, bee houses, bat, butterfly and toad houses, salamander boards, bird feeders and more, all the in hopes of attracting more wildlife.
· Pollinator Garden – to attract butterflies and moths – especially the endangered monarch butterfly.
· Gnome Homes and Fairy Gardens – To activate a child’s imagination, we’ll have colourful shells, stones, boughs, and bark so that kids can make their own creations out of natural materials to attract the elusive fairies and gnomes living around Camp Kawartha.
We will announce the official opening of the Morton Healing Garden with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in early June 2023. Stay tuned!
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The Voyageur Canoe Fleet Grows! |
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A beautiful Voyageur canoe (26 feet in length) complete with paddles, has been donated to Camp Kawartha. Katie and Jim Stewart kindly gifted their family canoe to the Camp, and we could not be more delighted!
This will be a welcome addition for our Adventure in Understanding program in partnership with the Rotary Club of Peterborough/Kawartha. These boats are broad and stable, helping inexperienced paddlers learn to canoe. With this wonderful donation, we now have a fleet of 3 Voyageur canoes!
We thank Katie and Jim for their thoughtfulness and generosity!
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We are Co-Hosting a Scavenger Hunt Related to Our Anniversary! |
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Who doesn’t enjoy a scavenger hunt! It’s like solving a mystery or looking for lost treasure, and it challenges the searcher to be curious, to problem-solve, and be creative in their search – ‘where can I find the answers’!
The Peterborough Museum & Archives is joining us in offering a Scavenger Hunt which asks searchers to find answers to some very specific questions! For those daring enough to search, there are great prize-packs to be won!
Here are the questions related to the Camp and the Museum that you must answer:
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1. Name the only woman who gave birth at Camp Kawartha. (Hint…you can find the answer in our exhibition at the Museum!)
2. Name our current Summer Camp Director.
3. How long has the Camp’s Summer Camp program been running – 90 years; 100 years; 110 years?
4. What is the title of the Camp Kawartha exhibition at the Peterborough Museum & Archives?
5. What is the theme of the exhibition after Camp Kawartha’s is done?
6. Does the Museum have a summer camp program?
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There are two prize packs totaling $200 for those with the most correct answers. Submit your list of answers to Susan ([email protected]) by December 4th (the final day of our exhibition at the Museum!) by 5:00 p.m. The winners will be announced in our December newsletter. If more than one person or family gets all the questions correctly answered, we will draw a name from the boss’ hat to decide the winners!
Now go look for those answers!!
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Congratulations Dustin! WORLD CHAMPION |
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We are delighted to tell you that Dustin Watson, the newest member of the Camp Kawartha Maintenance Team, has competed at the highest level in archery and placed first! He is now a world champion!! He defeated 15 other qualifiers, and in the final round beat a strong Slovenian archer to take the U21 compound bow gold medal!
Congratulations Dustin! We are so proud of you!
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Grandparents, Consider This Option! |
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Grandparents, are you looking for a unique gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, or a birthday for your special grandchild?
A great friend of the Camp, Carol Ingleton, provided a fantastic idea to alleviate the stress of what to get! Consider sponsoring your grandchild’s class for a day visit to our Environment Centre!
The per child cost is $12.50 – you could consider sponsoring the whole cost or even half the cost. Your grandchild and their classmates will benefit from our dynamic, curriculum-linked programming – A Bug’s Life; A Day in the Life of a Squirrel; Tracking and Trailing; Alternative Energy, Snowshoeing, and so many more!
A class field trip starts at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. Students receive two programs from our award-winning educators! It is a perfect mix of learning while being immersed in the outdoors!!
If you are interested, have your grandchild’s teacher reach out to Amanda, our Educational Programming Coordinator at the Environment Centre to check on availability! [email protected]
The Environment Centre is located at 2505 Pioneer Road in Peterborough!
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Thank You for Helping Us Celebrate!
A Special Tribute to the Gainey Foundation.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate our 10th Anniversary last month! It was so nice to be able to gather and celebrate the achievements and community that we have built over the last 12 years. A heartfelt thanks to the Gainey Foundation who made the creation of the Environment Centre possible.
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Enjoy a Winter School Visit at the EC! |
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Join us at the Environment Centre this year for a day visit that will engage your students and bring learning to life!
Our day visits offer a variety of programs to choose from that utilize hands-on exploration, experiments, storytelling, drama and games, that tie into your classroom learning and meet requirements from the Ontario Curriculum.
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Sign Up For Nature School Programs! |
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In our Environment Centre Nature School, we strive to foster the development of character and friendships, a deep respect for nature, and a desire to take care of our beautiful home – the Earth. We learn through Outdoor Skills, Nature Studies, Sensory and Awareness Activities, Games, Imaginative Play, Exploration, Arts, Projects, and plenty of time immersed in direct experience of Nature in all conditions
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Nature Showcase: A Lesson in Leaving |
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A school group recently visited our main camp. They were a keen bunch (happy to be outside and out of the classroom I suppose), and all wonderfully behaved. It was a pleasure to have them here.
One of our programs had them studying habitats, and they were out on the Yellow Trail looking for and discussing what habitats existed in the woods. Our instructor had them tipping over rocks and logs, and many found red-backed salamanders as well as one amazing blue spotted beauty.
Unbeknownst to us and the teachers, one of the little salamanders travelled in a water bottle back to the school. The student was so intrigued by the salamander that they decided an amphibian companion would be great.
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However, the hitchhiker was discovered and after some phone calls, was transported back to Camp Kawartha to be released in the same area she came from. Once free of her travel case, the salamander (we named her Toby) made her way through the leaf litter and scrambled under a nice, big rock in no time.
That group of students learned many things during their day-long visit, not the least of which is to leave animals, plants, insects where you find them. It is great to admire, even touch, but please do not take them home!
What a fantastic life lesson for this class…and for us all.
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Camp Kawartha is an accredited, award-winning, not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion of the highest standard of programming, with a particular focus on outdoor environmental awareness, outdoor and environmental education and stewardship. Registered Charity # 12453 9214 RR0001
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