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Camp Ecology       Ages 5 & 6, 7 & 8 (all together)

June 13th through Sept 2nd / Mondays - Fridays
Summer drop off and pick up meeting place:
Koch Park in Aspen corner of Durant and Garmisch St. 
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Drop off between 9:00am & 10:00am.
Pick up between 3 & 3:30pm.

Summer 2011 Rates
Daily drop-in rate $95
3 day pass $270
Weekly enrolment
$425
10 day pass $900
( pre-paid in full )

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Summer 2011 Calendar

June 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th F Sa
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5
 
6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Native Americans

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Aspen Animals

26 27 28 29 30 1 2

Water, Water, H2O

July 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Bugs, Slugs & Spiders

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Forest Rock

Campout

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Campout

Dinosaur Days

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25 26 27 28 29 30

Native Americans

Campout

August 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Campout

Aspen Animals

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Water, Water, H2O

Campout

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Campout

Bugs, Slugs & Spiders

21 22 23 24 25 26 27
 

Forest Rock

28 29 30 31 1 2 3

Dinosaur Days


Educational Weekly Themes
Each week a fun theme helps the campers focus on a topic. Crafts for the week's theme are set up each morning on picnic tables in the park. We offer a variety of things to create with drawings & rubbings, glueing & coloring... we often use natural items in the craft projects of the day. The colorful overflowing ECO Bead Box is a kids favorite to make long displays hanging from their backpacks. Each craft can be simple for the beginners or expanded to challenge the best of crafters. Fun games like kickball and capture the flag football are daily requests from the kids with then a short morning hike before lunch. Camp Ecology afternoons are full of exploration and discovery. With the weekly theme on minds, we take short hikes to other parks in Aspen to use our ECO Nature Discovery Kits. Two Field trips a week to ACES (Aspen Center for Environmental Studies) reinforces our educational themes. The nature center offers a fully natural experience for our campers. Pick-up time always includes fun stories of the day's adventures. Come join us at Camp ECO.
 
Native Americans
June 13th - 17th & July 25th- 29th
Learn about native Aspen area, Ute people. Native American crafts from nature. Make a noise shaker, Eco Dream Catcher and a unique walking stick. Special beads in the Bead Box!
Two field trips to ACES to learn about the culture of the Ute Native Americans & more.

 

Aspen Animals
June 20th - 24th & August 1st - 5th
The amazing world of wild Aspen animals. Explore animal facts, tracks,
scat, and habitats. Safe predator-prey games. Make an animal footprint cast each day to paint and collect them. During short hikes, we find many signs of animals and discover real live animals too. Choose your animal name and face paint to match. Two field trips to ACES allows the campers to learn in true animal habitats. See up close a Golden Eagle and view Hallem Lake for beavers, trout, birds, deer and much more.
 
Water, Water, H2O
June 27th- July 1st & August 8th - 12th
Learn about H2O as a solid, vapor & liquid. Do gasses create water? We are a water planet, are there others? We are made of almost all water, yes you & me. Get wet while we explore H2O and its importants in our planets water ecosystems.  Find water bugs and put in a magnascope. Learn about the Roaring Fork River watershed. Two field trips to ACES to get our feet wet in the ponds & stream. Feed the trout bugs we catch in the ponds.

Bugs, Slugs, and Spiders
July 4th - 8th   &   Aug 15th - 19th
Explore the tiny world of insects and arachnids. Find slugs and view them in a magnascope. Make your own bugs and  soft spiders. Catch and examine bugs and lethttp://www.campeco.com/graphics/dragon_fly_small.gif them free. Two field trips to ACES allows for hands on bug hunting on land and in the water of ponds. Does it bug you?

Forests Rock
July 11th - 15th   &   Aug 22nd- 26th
Aspen's mixed forest are great for exploring and discovering. Cool shaded trails will give an inside look and feel of trees, flowers and dirt. Crafts from plants, clay and leaves. Discover and collect rocks of the Aspen area geology. Two field trips to ACES puts campers in the forests of the nature center to feel, smell & see it all.
 


Nature Discovery Kit

Dinosaur Days
July 18th - 22nd   &   Aug 29th - Sep 2nd
Rediscover dinosaurs and learn about Earth before man.  Visit the Ice Age Woolly Mammoth site in SMass. Make fossil prints each day to paint and collect. Touch real Dino scatt and bones. Build sand volcanoes, play with dinos and create cool dinosaur crafts. Two special field trips to ACES nature center to discover today's animal features from the Dinosaur days of the ancient past. So Dino!

 

 

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