YMWCA OF NEWARK AND VICINITY

600 Broad Street
Newark, NJ 07102
973.624.8900

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Summer Day Camps

The Newark YMCA offers excellent educational and recreational summer day camp programs. When a child joins the Y’s Summer Day Camp, exciting learning opportunities, unparalleled sports programs, strong friendships and caring mentors are just the beginning.

Whether a child is learning to swim the length of the pool, participating in a scavenger hunt in the woods of our Camp Linwood facility, laughing with friends as they learn a game together, or writing in her journal with the guidance of a high school honors student, the Y is helping to build the community through our core values: caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.

When a child attends our summer day camp, he or she sees the Y community consistently modeling these values and before long, they become second nature. In addition to building friendships and memories, the children in our program gain support for their academic efforts, experience a variety of cultural opportunities, and increase their levels of physical activity. Our Broad Street facility boasts a heated swimming pool and excellent aquatics staff, a gymnasium, and diverse programming space.

Follow the links below for our:

Summer Day Camp 2013 Brochure and Registration

2013 Parent's Manual

SUMMER LEARNING at the Newark YMCA Summer Day Camp

To succeed in school and life, children and young adults need ongoing opportunities to learn and practice essential skills. This is especially true during the summer months when children lose much of what they learn during the school year.

YMCA Day Camps offer high-quality summer learning designed to improve reading and math skills while children explore music, drama, art and sports. Through fun, themed curriculum incorporating key educational components, children will practice and further academic skills, plan and create projects, learn teamwork and develop new skills. To inspire reading, our program will provide books recommended by the local Public Library summer reading programs.

Once each two week session, campers will spend a day at the the Y's Camp Linwood - McDonald in rural Sussex County, making the most of the peaceful rural setting. In addition to the superb environmental education program, children can hike through miles of lush, wooded trails, swim or just sit under a tree and sketch their surroundings.

Our Camp Linwood has a 20 acre, spring-fed lake for swimming, kayaking, and other water sports. In addition, the Camp’s forest, ponds and streams provide a perfect setting for environmental education, including:

Forest Ecology: Students role-play tree anatomy, look for signs of wildlife in the forest, discover forest values by making metaphors, and compete in the energy flow relay to understand how forest plants and animals interact. A focus on the Northern Red Oak, New Jersey’s state tree, is included.

Water Ecology: Students will use dip-nets to search for invertebrates in the pond, then sort the invertebrates according to distinguishing physical features or adaptations. Older students will then identify their organisms and evaluate the health of the water ecosystem according to what is found.

Wildlife Ecology: Through animal tracking and stimulation games, students will become familiar with local wildlife and their relationship with humans. This offering lets students explore natural habitats throughout camp. The search will include learning about bears, beaver, deer, squirrels and other native creatures.

NEWARK Y SUMMER DAY CAMP LOCATIONS:

Newark YMCA, 600 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Belleville School #8, 183 Union Avenue, Belleville, NJ 07109
Jehovah-Jireh Church, 505 South 15 Street, Newark, NJ 07103

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NEWARK TEEN COUNSELOR-IN-TRAINING | Ages 13-16

The Newark YMCA Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program is designed to foster student interest in community development and leadership with children in a camp setting. This is an excellent, eight-week opportunity for teenagers to build confidence and have fun while learning the necessary skills to become successful leaders and counselors. The program includes implementing camp curriculum, decision-making, public speaking, problem solving, and teambuilding. A day in the life of a CIT includes swimming, arts & crafts, field trips, fitness, creating a camp activity, community service, and leadership training. A certificate will be presented to campers who successfully complete entire eight-week Counselor-in-Training program. CITs are never responsible for the direct supervision of children. The CIT will assist counselors with programs and activities and will be responsible for helping the children to learn skills. The program is divided into two major components: a 90-minute workshop in the morning and a practicum in the afternoon.

Specific duties:

· Assist counselors by helping to get equipment and supplies ready for activities.

· Help to secure supplies and equipment after activities.

· Aid children in their learning by providing a good example.

· Help to teach skills to campers and monitor activity areas.

· Provide children with role models; help them grow in character.

· Help children keep track of their belongings.

· Help children to get to activity areas, the bathroom, gym and pool safely.

· Contribute ideas to make the program better.

· Report any unsafe actions to supervisor.

DATES & HOURS OF OPERATION
The Newark YMCA and Vicinity Summer Day Camp is an eight-week program that runs July 1, 2013 – August 23, 2013, 9:00am – 5:00pm. Extended hours( 7:30am – 6:00pm) are available for an additional $60 fee per session.

For more information about the Y Summer Day Camp, please call Darnell Benjamin at 973-624-8900 or email him at dbenjamin@newarkymca.org

YMWCA OF NEWARK AND VICINITY

Summer Day Camps

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For information about our camp and conference center, Camp Linwood MacDonald, click here.