Pequea Valley AUGUST 4, 2021
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVII • NO 33
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Woodcrest Prepares For 12th 3D Archery Shoot BY ANN MEAD ASH
About 80 Pequea Valley School District students took part in the Braves Summer Camp.
PV Students Enjoy Braves Summer Camp uring the summer of 2020, Karla Neff, director of Pequea Valley elementary advocacy, held an outside learning and enrichment program for a limited number of students at the Braves Learning Center, which is located, along with The Factory Ministries, in the Together Community Center in Paradise. This year, Neff was able to hold Braves Summer Camp in the learning center, an area comprised of staff offices and a brightly decorated classroom, which opened last spring. “Coming back off COVID restrictions and having the new center at the same time, this is a huge gift,” said Neff. Each week that the free camp was held, Neff and a volunteer helper, along with an invited expert in a particular field, worked with about 12 children, for a total
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Neff customizes activities according to the age and academic level of the student. For instance, a community journal page done by a kindergartner may include a drawing while an older student would be asked to write several sentences. “We take the activity and engage it to the age,” said Neff, who talks to parents about each child’s strengths and weaknesses and reccomends that the student sign up to attend during the week that offers the best fit. She also reaches out to teachers to help develop a program for each child. “So if a child is specifically struggling in math, I can get math sheets from their grade,” she said. “If we see a child needs help, I work with (the) students one-on-one separate from the camps.” More information about The Factory may be found at https://thefactoryministries.com or by searching for “The Factory Ministries” on Facebook.
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of 80 over the weeks of camp. that Salisbury Elementary School “Typically, (students are) here 10 teacher Anita Girvin served as a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 to 4 p.m.,” said plant expert. Another week, a Neff, who held the camp for a total Factory Ministries intern of eight weeks, taking off the week designed a literacy program that of July 4. “Each learner comes for included reading and enrichment games. Paradise restwo weeks.” Neff ident Christy Fieldexplained that the parents choose the “Coming back off sa visited for a week two weeks the stu- COVID restrictions to lead students in dent attends and a n d h a v i n g t h e trying different art that those weeks new center at the mediums. “ We did need not be same time, this is chalk (drawing) outside, and we painted consecutive. a huge gift.” with flowers,” said Neff said that Neff, who added about half the time students are at camp, the focus is that the Factory staff members academic. Depending on the indi- led a survivor week for students. vidual student’s specific needs, Other themes highlighted cultithe curriculum might be literacy vating kindness, and kinderor math based. The other half is garten readiness, and special enrichment oriented. “Then the STEAM (science, technology, fun (enrichment) part is connect- engineering, art, and math) weeks ed to the theme,” explained Neff, focused on kindergarten through who noted that the first week of second grade and third through camp was gardening week and sixth grades.
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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a well-known saying. It is a concept that organizers of the annual Woodcrest 3D Archery Shoot have found to work well. “We pretty much do the same thing over and over, and the guys still keep coming,” said Jason Martin, operations director for Woodcrest Retreat, a camp and conference center located at 225 Woodcrest Drive, Ephrata.
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