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* Charles County Public Schools 2020 Summer Enrichment Camps Located at Maawoman Middle School 10145 Berry Road Waldorf, MD
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Charles County Public Schools
2020 Summer Enrichment Camps
Located at Mattawoman Middle School 10145 Berry Road
Waldorf, MD
2020 Summer Enrichment Camp Information
Camp Weeks:
Week 1: June 22 - June 26 Week 2: July 6 - July 10 Week 3: July 13 - July 17 Week 4: July 20 - July 24 Camp Location: Mattawoman Middle School 10145 Berry Rd. Waldorf, MD Kindergarten camps held at Berry Elementary School, 10155 Berry Rd., Waldorf, MD
Camp sessions last 3 hours/day for 1 week.
Camp sessions offered in the morning (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
and afternoon (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.).
Activity time, including free lunch, for campers attending both morning and
afternoon sessions for $10.00/week to cover supervision.
Cost for each camp session - $90.00*
Financial assistance available to those who qualify. For information, contact Alicia Briscoe at 301- 934-7369 or [email protected].
*Some camps have additional cost for materials.
Register for camps according to the student’s 2020 - 2021 school year grade level.
$5.00 processing fee for cancellations.
Register at: www.ccboe.com
Go to Quick Links and look for Summer Camps 2020.
Contact Ann Taylor at [email protected] or (301) 934 -7378 for registration questions.
Week 1: June 22 - June 26 Morning Camp Sessions (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
The Great Outdoors
Explore the great outdoors by making crafts, playing games, cre-ating birdfeeders, and more! Learn about animals and other outdoor adventures through books and play!
All Things Science
Nothing is more fun than getting messy and being creative. Each day you will engage in a new experiment to test your knowledge of science while you learn how exciting and challenging it can be.
Goin’ Green
Explore how to reduce, reuse, and recycle! Engage in arts and crafts, hands-on-activities, stories, songs and more! We all need to take care of our environment and this camp will offer exciting activities promoting a green earth.
Around the World in Five Days
Come and travel the world! Each day you will “travel” to a new country. Learn some of the language, make a craft, and try some foods from that country. Have fun learning about the life and culture from places around the world.
Body Moves Through Science
Do you like to dance? This camp will teach you different science topics while you also learn dance routines, techniques, formations, and creative movement. We will explore different genres of dance such as ballet, hip hop, jazz, and contemporary, while exploring laws of motion, earth sci-ence, chemistry, physics, and biology.
LEGO Robotics
Come join the Lego fun as you create robots using WeDo 2.0 to accomplish a secret mission. Learn to build and code a robot to work through a maze of fun.
Fitness for Fun
Learn the skills and play games in bas-ketball, soccer, flag-football, floor hockey, and more. Stay active this summer while having fun learning the moves and skills of various sports as you play against each other.
Summer Band Camp
Don’t let your musical talents go idle over the summer. Come out with other students to play new music and learn new skills. Fun musical games will also be enjoyed. Perform a mini-concert on the last day of camp.
Game Night
Have fun playing others in strategic board games and card games. You will also like solving riddles as well as cre-ating your own board game to try out on other campers.
My Art, My World Arts Camp
You will have an “out of the box” thinking experience as you use your own learning style to enhance your creative skills through literary, visual, and performing arts. Come out and
experience a cultural arts integrated program! An additional cost of $10.00 added for art sup-plies.
Lunch Activity Time is available for those students staying for an afternoon camp session. For an extra $10.00 they will be served a hot lunch and have an activity time in between their morning and afternoon camp sessions.
Suit Up For Outer Space
Blast off this summer to space camp! Learn all about space using hands-on space themed activities. Explore the many wonders of the universe beyond our reach.
Summer Time STEAM
Enjoy building rockets and other STEAM related activities during this week-long camp focused on science, technology, engineering, math, and art! Hands-on activities will have you learning while having fun!
Escape Room
Do you enjoy solving riddles and find-ing clues? Can you be the first to “escape”? Each day will be a new experience and theme such as Zombie Teacher and Ancient Egypt Escape Room. Join the fun to see if you can escape!
Breakout Busters
Use clues, riddles, and brain teasers to unlock a different mystery every day. Students will work in small groups to complete Breakout Box activities as they try to solve the mystery. Put your problem solving skills to use as you cre-ate your own breakout box!
Week 1: June 22 - June 26 Afternoon Camp Sessions (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Coding 101
Create your own games, art, and digi-tal stories that you can share. This is a great way for you to have fun while coding with other students who enjoy computers. Learn to code in Scratch, Python, Sphero and more!
Camp Half-Blood
Enter the world of Greek mythology inspired by the Percy Jackson series! Students will be placed into different houses of the gods and learn about myths from around the world. Play Olympic-style games, mythology trivia, and more!
Goin’ Green
Learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle through arts and crafts, hands-on-activities, stories, songs, and more! We all need to take better care of our environment and this camp will offer exciting activities promoting a green earth.
Suit Up For Outer Space
Blast off this summer to space camp! Learn all about space using hands on space themed activi-ties. Explore the many wonders of the universe beyond our reach.
Super Scoring Soccer Stars
Come together with other soccer players to learn and perfect your skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting, and ball control. Whether you have experience or are new to soccer,
come join the fun and meet new friends as you learn more about this exciting sport.
The Great Outdoors
Explore the great outdoors by making crafts, playing games, creating bird-feeders, and more! Come and learn about animals and other outdoor adventures through books and play!
Body Moves Through Science
Do you like to dance? This camp will teach you different science topics while you also learn dance routines, techniques, formations, and creative movement. We will explore different genres of dance such as ballet, hip hop, jazz, and contemporary. Learn how dance is all connected to laws of motion, earth science, physics, and biology.
Summer Time STEAM
Enjoy building rockets and other STEAM related activities during this week-long camp focused on science, technology, engineering, math, and art! Hands-on activities will have you learning while having fun!
Bow Wizards Strings Camps
Rosin up your bow and come out to this camp specifically for students playing a string instrument. Learn new notes and musical pieces to play in a concert at the end of the week. There will also be fun games and activ-ities featured in this week’s camp.
Fitness for Fun
Learn the skills and play games in basketball, soccer, flag-football, floor hockey, and more. Stay active this summer while having fun learning the moves and skills of various sports as you play against each other.
Level up on Life
Enjoy collaborating with others in vari-ous games and crafts that promote social and life skills. Card games, board games, video games, and more will bring you together with skills used in every day life.
Crazy Contraptions
Create your own Rube Goldberg ma-chine that intentionally takes a simple task to an indirect and overly compli-
cated set-up. Use your creative think-ing to problem solve your design and construct your own contraption.
Week 2: July 6 - July 10 Morning Camp Sessions (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Adventures in Outer Space
This camp is out of this world with crafts, science projects, songs, and activities all focused on outer space. While learning about space in this fun camp, you will make a telescope, compete in Asteroid Toss and make galaxy playdoh.
Chess for All Levels
Whether you are a beginner or an ex-perienced chess player, enjoy a week of chess matches to perfect your skills. Learn the moves of all the chess pieces as well as special moves you can make to take the match.
Let’s “Paws” about Cats
Discover the world of cats—wild and domestic. From Siamese and Bengal cats to the lynx, lion, and Siberian Tiger, you will discover these beautiful creatures and have fun through sto-ries, creating your own artwork, per-forming plays, and more!
No Bake Camping Cuisine
Learn how to cook without a stove or campfire. Each day you will be able to taste your own sample of no-cook cuisine. Enjoy a breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner item while you play camping games. An additional cost of $10.00 is added for food supplies.
Kindergarten Fun - held at Berry Elementary School, 10155 Berry Road, Waldorf , MD
Kindergarten Fun is a camp where you will get to experience the fun you will have in kindergarten. We will make tasty snacks, read stories, create crafts, dance with Go Noodle, and participate in many other fun activities.
Tech Smart Kids
Learn new skills on making interactive games, and knowing the secrets of technology your teacher uses. Learn how to make games such as Kahoot and other interactive games that will get you ahead of your friends in technology.
Chess for All Levels
Whether you are a beginner or an ex-perienced chess player, enjoy a week of chess matches to perfect your skills. Learn the moves of all the chess pieces as well as special moves you can make to take the match.
All Things Science
Nothing is more fun than getting messy and being creative. Each day a new experiment will test your knowledge while you learn how sci-ence can be fun, exciting, and chal-lenging.
Fun with STEM
Enjoy the week using your problem solving, creativity, and collaboration skills to solve real world engineering design problems. Hands-on activities
such as building towers, bridges, catapults, and more will keep you busy and engaged while having fun.
SCRATCH, Jr.
Learn all about programming using SCRATCH to make an animated story, story problems, and more. Work on computers to get experience in cod-ing to make a story come to life.
Ticket to Anywhere
“Travel” to amazing locations around the world. Experience the food, lan-guage, dress, games/activities from different cultures and countries. Use the passport you will make to get your stamps along the way.
Volleyball FUNdamentals
Want to learn about the game of vol-leyball and have FUN doing it? Come join us for some “beginner” drills and fun ways to learn the game.
Camp Half-Blood
Enter the world of Greek mythology inspired by the Percy Jackson series! Students will be placed into different houses of the gods and learn about myths from around the world. Play Olympic-style games, mythology trivia, and more!
STEAMing with Science
Investigate the unknown, turn turtles into dragons, help save Fred, embrace your creativity, and make intricate and tasty models. These are just some of the fun activities you will do as you experience hands-on science activities in this weeks camp.
Week 2: July 6 - July 10 Afternoon Camp Sessions (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Painting Magic
Learn the powers of paint! This art summer camp will teach you how to use different painting supplies to achieve a magic scene. Create batik paintings, landscapes, and water-color paintings to name a few.
Additional $10.00 added to cost for art supplies.
Minds in Motion
Get your mind moving this summer in more ways than you can imagine. Play games and activities to improve memory, coordi-nation, strategy, and puzzle solving. Discover your own learning style.
Kindergarten Fun - held at Berry Elementary School, 10155 Berry Road, Waldorf , MD
Kindergarten Fun is a camp where you will get to experience the fun you will have in kindergarten. We will make tasty snacks, read stories, create crafts, dance with Go Noodle, and participate in many other fun activities.
Adventures in Outer Space
This camp is out of this world with crafts, science projects, songs, and activities all focused on outer space. While learning about space during this fun camp, you will make a tele-scope, compete in Asteroid Toss, and make galaxy playdoh.
Fun with STEM
Enjoy the week using your problem solving, creativity, and collaboration skills to solve real-world engineering design problems. Hands-on activities such as building towers, bridges, cata-pults, and more will keep you busy and engaged while having fun.
Chess for All Levels
Whether you are a beginner or an ex-perienced chess player, enjoy a week of chess matches to perfect your skills. Learn the moves of all the chess pieces as well as special moves you can make to take the match.
Tech Smart Kids
Learn new skills on making interactive games, and knowing the secrets of technology your teacher uses. Learn how to make games such as Kahoot and other interactive games that will get you ahead of your friends in technology.
Ticket to Anywhere
“Travel” to amazing locations around the world. Experience the food, dress, language, and games/activities from different cultures and countries. Use the passport you will make to get your stamps along the way.
Punch ‘N Paint
Everyone is an artist. During this week, you will enjoy the afternoons being creative on your own canvas. Learn new artistic techniques to pro-duce your own fabulous works of art.
Level up on Life
Enjoying collaborating with others in various games and crafts that promote social and life skills. Card games, board games, video games, and more will bring you together with skills used in every day life.
STEAMing with Science
Investigate the unknown, turn turtles into dragons, help save Fred, embrace your creativity, and make intricate and tasty models. These are just some of the fun activities you will do as you experience hands-on science activities in this weeks camp.
Chess for All Levels
Whether you are a beginner or an ex-perienced chess player, enjoy a week of chess matches to perfect your skills. Learn the moves of all the chess pieces as well as special moves you can make to take the match.
Week 3: July 13 - July 17 Morning Camp Sessions (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Sensational Stories
You will have fun using stories from some of the best children’s authors to work on creating your own stories and to even act them out. We explore the writings of Eric Carle, Jan Brett, Dr. Seuss and many more.
A STEMtacular Time!
Get ready to unlock your creativity! We will build basketball courts, cata-pults, playgrounds, and more! Most of the things we will be building are made out of items found right in your home! Come make a mess, have fun, and unlock your creativity!
STEAMing Through History
Ever wonder how ice cream was in-vented before electricity? Ever mum-mify an apple? Want to learn the ba-sics of how a rocket works? Come join the fun to STEAM your way through key time periods in history.
No Bake Camping Cuisine
Learn how to cook without a stove or campfire. Each day you will be able to taste your own sample of no-cook cuisine. Enjoy a breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner item while you play camping games.
An additional cost of $10.00 is added for food supplies.
Minds in Motion
Get your mind moving this summer in more ways than you can imagine. Play games and activities to improve memory, coordination, strategy, and puzzle solving. Discover your own learning style.
Super Scoring Soccer Stars
Come together with other soccer players to learn and perfect your skills. Work on dribbling, passing, shooting, and ball control. It doesn't matter what level of experience you have, come join the fun and meet new friends as you learn more about this exciting sport.
Talking Hands
Enjoy a week learning your name, the alphabet, common phrases, and songs using the American Sign Lan-guage. Have fun with others while doing crafts and learning other ways to communicate with your hands.
Breakout Busters
Use clues, riddles, and brain teasers to unlock a different mystery every day. Students will work in small groups to complete Breakout Box activities as they try to solve the mystery. Put your problem solving skills to use as you create your own breakout box!
Let’s “Paws” about Cats
Discover the world of cats—wild and domestic. From Siamese and Bengal cats to the lynx, lion, and Siberian Tiger, you will discover these beautiful creatures and have fun through stories, creating your own artwork, performing plays, and more!
Ticket to Anywhere
“Travel” to amazing locations around the world. Experience the food, lan-guage, dress, and games/activities from different cultures and countries. Use the passport you will make to get your stamps along the way.
Basketball Skill and Drill
Have fun learning and practicing fun-damental skills in the game of basket-ball including passing, layups, drib-bling, shooting, and team defense. Skills are reinforced with daily organized scrimmages and a focus on sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play.
Spanish Zone Fun Camp
Come out for a fun week integrating theater, crafts, and dance all focused on the Spanish cul-ture. Learn basic Spanish vocabulary words to help you in a global society.
Week 3: July 13 - July 17 Afternoon Camp Sessions (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
CSI, Jr.
Are you ready to fight crime? Get ready to solve your first mystery using fingerprints, footprints, eye witness testimony, and brain power! This week you will use all your senses to help serve justice at camp!
Dinosaur Discovery
T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, oh my! Explore these animals that lived millions of years ago through books and crafts such as making fossils and dinosaur skin. It will be a dino-riffic time!
Paint Party
Come learn how to create landscapes, logos, and more! You will create a new painting each day using acrylic paint. No matter what your current skill level is, you will leave with artwork that you are proud of!
Additional $10.00 added to cost for art supplies.
Learn to be a Rockin’ Leader and Role Model
This week will show you how to be a an awesome leader and role model for others. You will have the chance to learn from great leaders, create your own leadership philosophy, practice interviewing skills, and more! Learn how to lead group activities for peers and younger audiences.
Entering the World of Harry Potter
Are you a Harry Potter fan? Would you like to learn about the wizarding world through games and hands-on activities? Join us for a week of spells, charms, potions, STEM activities, and more!
Goin’ Green
Learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle through arts and crafts, hands-on-activities, stories, songs, and more! We all need to take care of our environment and this camp will offer exciting activities promoting a green earth.
Super Scoring Soccer Stars
Come together with other soccer players to learn and perfect your skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting, and ball control. Whether you have experience or are new to soccer, come join the fun and meet new friends as you learn more about this exciting sport.
Talking Hands
Enjoy a week learning your name, the alphabet, common phrases, and songs using the American Sign Lan-guage. Have fun with others while doing crafts and learning other ways to communicate with your hands.
A STEMtacular Time!
Get ready to unlock your creativity! We will build basketball courts, catapults, playgrounds, and more! Most of the things we will be building are made out of items found right in your home! Come make a mess, have fun, and unlock your creativity!
Basketball Skill and Drill
Have fun learning and practicing fundamental skills in the game of basketball including passing, layups, dribbling, shooting, and team defense. Skills are reinforced with daily organized scrimmages and a focus on sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play.
STEAMing Through History
Ever wonder how ice cream was invented before electricity? Ever mummify an apple? Want to learn the basics of how a rocket works? Come join the fun to STEAM your way
Punch ‘N Paint
Everyone is an artist. During this week, you will enjoy the afternoons being creative on your own canvas. Learn new artistic techniques to produce your own fabulous works of art.
Week 4: July 20 - July 24 Morning Camp Sessions (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Beginner Crochet
Come learn a new craft—crochet! Learn how to create a starting chain, single crochet, and double crochet. Create hats, scarves, and purses. Crochet needles and yarn will be provided.
Krafty Kindergarten Kids- held at Berry Elementary School, 10155 Berry Rd., Waldorf, MD Get ready for Kindergarten by using your imagination, exploring and making creative crafts. Learn what it takes to be successful when you enter Kindergarten.
Lunch Activity Time is available for those students staying for an afternoon camp session. For an extra $10.00 they will be served a hot lunch and have an activity time in between their morning and afternoon camp sessions.
Clay Creations
Have fun making different types of clay and/or dough each day. You will then mold it into creations such as beads, pots, animals, and more!
Getting Crafty with Literacy!
Get ready to have fun while building your reading skills! We will open up the pages of your favorite authors and explore different ways to have fun while reading. Come join in on this fun adventure!
SCRATCH, Jr.
Learn all about programming using SCRATCH to make an animated story, story problems, and more. Work on computers to get experience in cod-ing to make a story come to life.
Breakout Busters
Use clues, riddles, and brain teasers to unlock a different mystery every day. Students will work in small groups to complete Breakout Box activities as they try to solve the mystery. Put your problem solving skills to use as you create your own breakout box!
Ready, Set, Dance!
Rotate through different dance styles each day - ballet, jazz, and hip hop. Rehearse together a showcase-style concert at the end of the week. All levels are welcome! No previous dance experience is necessary. Get ready to move and groove during this week long camp.
LEGO Robotics
Come join the Lego fun as you create robots using WeDo 2.0 to accomplish a secret mission. Learn to build and code a robot to work through a maze of fun.
Escape Room
Do you enjoy solving riddles and find-ing clues? Can you be the first to “escape”? Each day will be a new experience and theme such as Zombie Teacher and Ancient Egypt Escape Room. Come see and join the fun to see if you can escape!
Graphics & Animation in Python!
Learn how to write code in Python! Come and experience how to code animations, mouse events, and games using Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Academy curriculum.
Sports Camp
Practice the skills and drills of all the popular sports based on the interest of the campers. Learn both the men-tal and physical demands of the sport while sportsmanship and teamwork are emphasized.
Week 4: July 20 - July 24 Afternoon Camp Sessions (12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Grades 1 - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8
Scalawags and Mermaids
Arrgg, Matey! During this week, you will determine fact from fiction while sailing with pirates and singing with mermaids. Did pirates really make people walk the plank? Are mermaids real? Using technology, art, and history, even the most enthusiastic landlubber will find their “sea legs!”
Learn to Play Chess
The knight, rook, queen, and king are just some of the pieces in chess. If you would like to learn how to play or perfect your game, come out and learn the strategy of the game. Compete with a computer and other campers.
Spanish 101
Let’s get a jump start on learning the Spanish language. Learn basic Spanish words and phrases through the use of music, games, and have fun with interactive activities. Learn about all the computer sites and apps that you can use in the future.
Krafty Kindergarten Kids- held at Berry Elementary School, 10155 Berry Rd., Waldorf, MD Get ready for Kindergarten by using your imagination, exploring and making creative crafts. Learn what it takes to be suc-cessful when you enter Kindergarten.
Getting Crafty with Literacy!
Get ready to have fun while building your reading skills! We will open up the pages of your favorite authors and explore different ways to have fun while reading! Come join in on this fun adventure!
Dinosaur Discovery
T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, oh my! Explore these animals that lived millions of years ago through books and crafts such as making fossils and dinosaur skin. It will be a dino-riffic time!
Ready, Set, Dance!
Rotate through different dance styles each day - ballet, jazz, and hip hop. Rehearse together a showcase-style concert at the end of the week. All levels are welcome! No previous dance experience is necessary. Get ready to move and groove during this week long camp.
Coding 101
Create your own games, art, and digital stories that you can share with family and friends. This is a great way for you to have fun while coding with other students who enjoy computers. Learn to code in Scratch, Python, Sphero, and more!
Level up on Life
Enjoy collaborating with others in various games and crafts that promote social and life skills. Card games, board games, video games, and more will bring you together with skills used in every day life.
Sports Camp
Practice the skills and drills of all the popular sports based on the interest of all the campers. Learn both the mental and physical demands of the sport while sportsmanship and teamwork are emphasized.
Board of Education
Virginia R. McGraw, Chairman Latina L. Wilson, Vice Chairman
Jennifer S. Abell Tajala Battle-Lockhart
Elizabeth C. Brown David Hancock Michael Lukas
DeJuan Woods, Student Member
Superintendent of Schools Kimberly A. Hill, Ed.D.
Deputy Superintendent Amy L. Hollstein
Assistant Superintendent of Supporting Services Michael L. Heim
Mission Statement
The mission of Charles County Public Schools is to provide an opportunity for all school-aged children to receive an academically challenging, quality education that builds character, equips for leadership, and prepares for life, in an environment that is safe and conducive to learning.
The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, nation-al origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices. For inquiries, please contact Kathy Kiessling, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.
