Summer Camp 2012 – ENROLL TODAY
Daybreak is enrolling now for the 2012 Daybreak summer camp. The camp is open to children grades K-8, and is scheduled to run for seven weeks from June 11 through July 27, 2012.
What’s new this year:
-We’ve added a Physcial Education component. We have a Physical Education teacher coming twice per week to conduct structured activities to get the kids moving!
-We’ve added a weekly crocheting class.
-We have a NEW food service provider that will prepare hot, delicious and nutritious meals.
-We now accept day care assistance from the state!
The camp also features the following activities.
Scheduled Activities
Financial Education Workshop – Sponsored by RKZ Management
Statistics show that 40% of Americans admit to living beyond their means and a number of people seek services because they are living above what they can afford. Children and young adults who have the opportunity to learn fiscal responsibility at an early age are more likely to make more educated financial decisions as adults. Through the Know Your Money Financial Education Workshop, students will learn the basic definitions related to banking and money management, short-term goal formation, in addition to the importance of understanding personal finances. The workshop will also be interactive, allowing the students to be hands-on by paying “bills” and balancing “checkbooks.” All students who complete the workshop will be rewarded with tools for saving towards their own short-term goals.
Length:
The classes for the workshop will be held once a week for five weeks. Each class will last approximately 1 hour.
Tennis Instructions – Sponsored by the Just-Us Tennis Foundation
For the third year the Daybreak Camp will offer tennis as a vehicle to teach and reinforce educational, social, and life skills through a sport which offers boys and girls similar opportunities for success. Tennis and tutoring programs use success on the courts to teach leadership, sportsmanship, self-esteem, confidence, discipline, accountability and the value of hard work, teamwork and individual effort. Tennis is a fun incentive that motivates children to participate in education programs and pairs wonderfully with tutoring programs.
The primary goals of the Just-Us Tennis Foundation, Inc. are:
- Promote the exposure of tennis to children and adults in diverse communities
- Enhance educational components of existing programs for children in diverse communities
- Provide job opportunities for adolescents and young adults
- Establish relationships and partnerships with corporations, community organizations and schools
Length
The tennis instruction will be held twice weekly for six weeks. Each session is one & half hour and held at the North County Recreation Complex on Redman Road; transportation is provided.
“Cooking Matters for Kids” – Sponsored by Operation FOOD Search
A “new” and exciting summer offering for Daybreak’s campers this year - a unique education on the benefits of eating healthy and nutritious foods. Each participant gets to prepare a variety of recipes and try new foods each week. Food safety, proper cooking techniques, and basic nutrition are some of the topics to be taught in “Cooking Matters for Kids.” Look forward to your child bringing home recipes they have prepared in class; this will be a great opportunity to let your child show you what they have learned by assisting in preparing meals at home!
Length
The 2-hour classes will be held weekly for six weeks.
Fine Art Instruction – Instructors: Richard and Betsy Anderson-Thayer
Richard Thayer is a retired arts educator having taught all levels, elementary through junior college. He earned an art degree from Dakota Wesleyan University. He worked in the Gifted Program for the Ferguson Florissant District. He currently specializes in creating 3-D architectural dressing of American cities and landmarks.
Betsy Anderson-Thayer is currently an arts educator with the Ferguson Florissant School District teaching at the elementary level. She is also the director of a performing arts program, Celebrate Children, which utilizes the teaching technique of National Dance Institute in New York founded by highly acclaimed dancer Jacques d’Amboise. She holds degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University.
Length
There are tentative plans to host the arts workshops twice weekly for week 2 through week 6 in one hour sessions each.
Scheduled Performances – Multi-Cultural Festivities:
PARENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND ALL MULTI-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES!!
And there’s more
- Character Building activities
- Free breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack
- Weekly Swimming at the North County Recreation Center
- A special culminating event- stay tuned
Take advantage of affordable enrollment/registration fees NOW! Limited slots are expected to fill up fast! Please print and complete the enrollment application and mail or deliver to the Daybreak office:
11575 Old Halls Ferry Road
Florissant, MO 63033.
(Application/registration forms cannot be submitted electronically.) Registration forms are also available at the Daybreak office. For more information, please contact the Camp Director, Sherry Davis, at (314) 477-0406 (sher...@yahoo.com), or the Daybreak Executive Director, Davina Reid at (314) 921-1606 (reid...@yahoo.com)
Thanks for considering the Daybreak Summer Day Camp experience for your children; a guaranteed memorable summer investment!!!
Sherry Davis, 2011 Camp Director
Davina Reid, Daybreak Executive Director
Charles M. Roach, President/Daybreak Board of Directors
Summer Camp Activities – Enroll Today!
Daybreak is enrolling now for the 2011 Daybreak summer camp. The camp is open to children grades K-8, and is scheduled to run for seven weeks from June 13 through July 29, 2011. The camp features the following activities.
Scheduled Activities
Financial Education Workshop – Sponsored by RKZ Management
Statistics show that 40% of Americans admit to living beyond their means and a number of people seek services because they are living above what they can afford. Children and young adults who have the opportunity to learn fiscal responsibility at an early age are more likely to make more educated financial decisions as adults. Through the Know Your Money Financial Education Workshop, students will learn the basic definitions related to banking and money management, short-term goal formation, in addition to the importance of understanding personal finances. The workshop will also be interactive, allowing the students to be hands-on by paying “bills” and balancing “checkbooks.” All students who complete the workshop will be rewarded with tools for saving towards their own short-term goals.
Length:
The classes for the workshop will be held once a week for five weeks. Each class will last approximately 1 hour.
Tennis Instructions – Sponsored by the Just-Us Tennis Foundation
For the third year the Daybreak Camp will offer tennis as a vehicle to teach and reinforce educational, social, and life skills through a sport which offers boys and girls similar opportunities for success. Tennis and tutoring programs use success on the courts to teach leadership, sportsmanship, self-esteem, confidence, discipline, accountability and the value of hard work, teamwork and individual effort. Tennis is a fun incentive that motivates children to participate in education programs and pairs wonderfully with tutoring programs.
The primary goals of the Just-Us Tennis Foundation, Inc. are:
- Promote the exposure of tennis to children and adults in diverse communities
- Enhance educational components of existing programs for children in diverse communities
- Provide job opportunities for adolescents and young adults
- Establish relationships and partnerships with corporations, community organizations and schools
Length
The tennis instruction will be held twice weekly for six weeks. Each session is one & half hour and held at the North County Recreation Complex on Redman Road; transportation is provided.
“Cooking Matters for Kids” – Sponsored by Operation FOOD Search
A “new” and exciting summer offering for Daybreak’s campers this year - a unique education on the benefits of eating healthy and nutritious foods. Each participant gets to prepare a variety of recipes and try new foods each week. Food safety, proper cooking techniques, and basic nutrition are some of the topics to be taught in “Cooking Matters for Kids.” Look forward to your child bringing home recipes they have prepared in class; this will be a great opportunity to let your child show you what they have learned by assisting in preparing meals at home!
Length
The 2-hour classes will be held weekly for six weeks.
Fine Art Workshops – Instructors: Richard and Betsy Anderson-Thayer
Daybreak is privileged to have distinguished artists to teach various art disciplines. Some of the “hands-on” workshop projects include:
- Irish Celtic illuminated letters
- Leprechaun hats and pictures
- West African paper 3-D masks
- Paper Kente cloth weavings of Ghana
- Mexican Oaxacan animal sculptures
Richard Thayer is a retired arts educator having taught all levels, elementary through junior college. He earned an art degree from Dakota Wesleyan University. He worked in the Gifted Program for the Ferguson Florissant District. He currently specializes in creating 3-D architectural dressing of American cities and landmarks.
Betsy Anderson-Thayer is currently an arts educator with the Ferguson Florissant School District teaching at the elementary level. She is also the director of a performing arts program, Celebrate Children, which utilizes the teaching technique of National Dance Institute in New York founded by highly acclaimed dancer Jacques d’Amboise. She holds degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University.
Length
There are tentative plans to host the arts workshops twice weekly for week 2 through week 6 in one hour sessions each.
Scheduled Performances – Multi-Cultural Festivities:
(two scheduled in June, two in July)
African Storytelling – Janice Lesane Katambwa, Storyteller
As a storyteller and African Culture Specialist, Mrs. Katambwa presents a program that enriches the lives of children and adults focusing on a wide variety of stories, songs, and dances. Audience members dress as main characters and use props to dramatize their parts. Janice introduces French and Tahiluba (two African languages), African cultures and traditions, family life, marriage, the naming ceremonies, foods and cooking, clothes/garb, hairstyles, education and schools, animals and wildlife, arts and crafts, and much more.
Groupo Atlantico – Carmen S. Dence and Arthur Moore
Groupo Atlantico is an ensemble of folk dancers whose purpose is to share the rich tri-ethnic (African, Native Indian and Spanish roots) of the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia, SA. Their mission is to share, teach and perform the folk dances, modern rhythms, legends and the rich cultural heritage of the people of the Atlantic coast of Colombia and other Caribbean regions.
The group was founded in 1995 by Carmen S. Dence, a research associate professor in Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Ms. Dence has been involved with traditional dancing and costume designing for most of her life; she is a Master Artist and Artist-Educator of the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Mr. Arthur Moore is the group lead percussionist. He is also Grand Master percussionist for the Katherine Dunham Arts and Humanities Center and the Katherine Dunham Children’s workshops of East St. Louis, Illinois.
Anointed Feet of the Arts – Patricia Burnett, Founder/CEO
The Anointed Feet of the Arts ministry’s mission is to promote spiritual praise and worship through the arts to all God’s people and to minister the Word of God through movement, music, drama and health and wellness. Their goal is to set a foundation for youth to be able to use God as a tool for making sound decisions and direction as they are faced with peer pressure, abstinence, violence, drugs and more. Anointed Feet of the Arts’ performance conveys God’s Word and Will via praise dance and song.
St. Louis Irish Arts – Helen Gannon, Founder and Director
The St. Louis Irish Arts’ mission is to promote and preserve traditional Irish music, song, and dance with special emphasis over the years on restoring the playing of the Irish harp and the use of the Irish language. The magical blend of Irish music and dance will bring an enlightenment of a beautiful culture that has had too little exposure in our community. The magnificent costumes, mesmerizing folk dancers, and interaction with our campers will be an ever-remembered experience for all in attendance. Our participants will actually be taught how to master the Irish harp in just one sitting!!!
PARENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND ALL MULTI-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES!!
And there’s more
- Character Building Workshops will be conducted by Minister Ricky Alexander of Trinity Mount Carmel Baptist Church.
- Free Breakfast and Lunch will be provided daily.
- At least four (4) Field Trips will be scheduled.
- A special culminating event will be planned.
Take advantage of affordable enrollment/registration fees NOW! Limited slots are expected to fill up fast! Please print and complete the enrollment application and mail or deliver to the Daybreak office:
11575 Old Halls Ferry Road
Florissant, MO 63033.
(Application/registration forms cannot be submitted electronically.) Registration forms are also available at the Daybreak office. For more information, please contact the Camp Director, Sherry Davis, at (314) 477-0406 (sher...@yahoo.com), or the Daybreak Executive Director, Davina Reid at (314) 921-1606 (reid...@yahoo.com)
Thanks for considering the Daybreak Summer Day Camp experience for your children; a guaranteed memorable summer investment!!!
Sherry Davis, 2011 Camp Director
Davina Reid, Daybreak Executive Director
Charles M. Roach, President/Daybreak Board of Directors
Mark Your Calendars! Spring Soirée
Make sure to mark your calendar for Daybreak’s Annual Spring Soirée – “Steppin for a Cause!”, scheduled for May 14, 2011 at the Embassy Suites at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. More details are forthcoming
Daybreak Partners with St. Louis for Kids
On June 12, 2009 , Daybreak Corporation was awarded a grant by Reaching Our Youth Institute. This capacity building grant afforded us the opportunity to acquire additional assets for our organization and secure the services of contractors for fund development and marketing materials. The partnering support of Reaching Our Youth Institute and St. Louis for Kids, and their hard work and dedication to youth in the St. Louis region, has enabled Daybreak to evolve and further our vision for building stronger families and communities.
Exciting Partnership with STL District Tennis Assoc.
On June 2, 2009, Daybreak Corporation was awarded a grant by the St. Louis District Tennis Association. This grant allowed us to provide tennis lessons to all of our summer camp attendees – free of charge. The Just-Us Tennis Foundation provided professional instructors and equipment. The summer camp attendees had an awesome time!
