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Snoqualmie Valley Record • March 11, 2015 • 11
2015
Summ r Fun Here comes the fun
Valley YMCA hosts 10 weeks of summer fun
Summer is on its way, and the Snoqualmie Valley YMCA is ready. Registration is already open for summer camps, and staff are excited about some of the new offerings coming to the Valley this year. One of those is Kids on Their Way, a camp for youngsters heading into their first year of school this fall. “It’s like a Kindergarten prep camp,” says Snoqualmie Valley YMCA Operations Director Megan Worzella. “It’s just getting those kiddos ready to do things like standing in line and listening to a teacher.” Unlike other camps that are for a broad range of ages, Worzella said, what makes Kids on Their Way so special is
that “this camp takes those kids and puts them only with their peers of the same age group.” The program is new to the Valley, but not to the YMCA, which has hosted Kids on Their Way in other communities for years. “It’s had really great success and really great feedback on our parent surveys,” Worzella said, which is why they decided to add it to their Valley camp offerings. All Y summer camps run in weeklong sessions, and the Y hosts 10 full weeks of camp, from June to August. All of the Y camps also incorporate strategies to fight the “summer slide,” the common term for the knowledge drop that students experience from being away from school for many weeks. SEE YMCA, 15
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The emphasis is on fun for campers at the Snoqualmie Valley YMCA’s outdoor fun camps.
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