Treehouse Learning, a longtime leader in quality Early Childhood Education in Boulder County, is now offering weekly summer camp sessions for incoming 1st-3rd grade in our River Classroom, and for incoming kindergartners! Our 2023 camp sessions were a great success, and we’re planning an even better Summer Camp Program in 2024!
Our summer camp format offers weekly sessions, so great for families needing continuous care all summer long, as well as for families only needing only specific weeks. Camp hours for 2024 are 9-4, with before/after care available between 7:30-5:30. Meals and snacks are included- even on field trip days!
What Makes Treehouse Learning Summer Camp Unique?
Our summer program is a mixed-age environment, where our River Camp children (incoming 1st – 3rd grade) have the opportunity to be leaders in our program through service projects in our community. This includes activities like reading aloud to the toddlers in our program, outdoor activities to support the entire community, like replenishing the woodchips on all of our playgrounds, and caring for our entire planet by planting a native, water-wise pollinator garden. All children are invited to join us at 8:45 for Big Circle, our daily community ritual gathering combining music, movement, Brain Gyms, and community, including original Treehouse Learning songs.
What does the Summer program look like across Treehouse Learning?
- Outdoor classrooms and nature-based learning, including frequent nature walks, citizen science programs, and more.
- Starting seeds, growing plants, flowers, and vegetables, and harvesting food
- Planning meals and packing lunches for weekly community field trips
- Learning and practicing how to properly compost, recycle, and care for our environment and planet!
- Ongoing classroom support and coaching from our embedded professional consultants, as well as enrichment specials
- Dedicated creative arts, movement, music, and more!
What happens every week?
- Creative Movement classes offered weekly through Mountain Kids Louisville
- Art instruction, experiential learning, and creating beauty in the world with Melissa Lam
- Music classes and experiences by the Center for Musical Arts music instructor
- Weekly outreach visits, including music and cultural performances, nature/environmental literacy programs, and gardening/nutritional educational programs
- Beth Epley
- Talking Hands/Talking Feet
- Playground Theater with Jeff & Mia
- ZBassSpeaks (Poet Laureate of Lafayette, CO)
- Grupo Tlaloc Aztec Dance
- Butterfly Pavilion
- Boulder County Open Space & City of Lafayette Open Space programs
- City of Lafayette Fire Department
- Weekly Field Trips: Children explore our local community on foot and by bus through our weekly field trips (which also include packing their lunches the day before as a learning activity)
- Waneka Lake/Greelee Wildlife Habitat
- Festival Plaza (Splash Pad)
- Lafayette Public Library
- The Collective Community Arts Center
- Lafayette History Museum
- Silvercreek Park (aka “The Chicken Park”
- Lafayette Fire Department
Scroll down for 2023 Summer Program Schedule, as well as pictures!
