Spend your summer at the Washington Waldorf School!
All summer camps (as described below) will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Registration is open to the public.
The following camps will be offered this summer:
Adventure Art Camp
Instructor: Merren Booth
Session: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 4th through 5th grades
What goes more hand in hand than Adventures and Art? Each day begins with going on an excursion and ends with painting, drawing, and creating. The possibilities are endless!
Adventure Camp
Instructor: Sarah Heirman
Sessions:
- Week 1: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019 FULL
- Week 2: 6/24/2019–6/28/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 2nd through 3rd grades
Can’t choose one particular activity? You don’t have to with this option. Children will have a variety of activities in the camp to keep them excited and involved. There will be fun science activities, art, music, creek exploring, and lots of games and free play.
Archery Camp FULL
Instructor: Peter Yencken
Session: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019 FULL
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 4th through 8th grades
During this camp, children will make by hand a wooden bow from hickory wood, wooden arrows with real turkey feathers, and a leather quiver. They will also learn to shoot their bows using the instinctive archery or traditional archery methods.
About Peter Yencken: Peter has been making bows for more than 25 years. He started making bows while working at Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School. He is a guest teacher to many wilderness schools here in the U.S. and in Australia. Peter has taught the art of making bows to well over 1,500 people ages six to 89.
Baseball Camp
Instructor: Christian Gardiner
Session: 6/17/2019-6/24/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 3rd through 7th grades
Waldorf Baseball camp has long been a summer favorite! Hit in the batting cage, learn fielding fundamentals, and practice sliding. This will be a fun filled time with unique and creative drills and lots of time playing ball on the baseball diamond.
Beautiful Local Bike Camp
Instructor: Geoff Baker
Session: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 6th through 12th grades
Students will explore the local bikeways of the Washington, DC area. Our Outdoor Education teacher, Geoff Baker, will help you explore Rock Creek Park, the National Mall and Tidal Basin, Arlington National Cemetery (and see the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier), Roosevelt Island, and along the Potomac River towards Mount Vernon. Students will look at the map to figure out distances and other sights along the way, including the best ice cream parlor available on that particular route! Come see DC on your very own spokes.
Note: Bicycles and helmets will not be provided but are required.
Children’s Garden Camp
Instructors: Tara Fathabadi with other WWS teachers (Katrina Hampton, Wendy Jackson or K. Kiley)
Sessions:
- Week 1: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019
- Week 2: 6/24/2019–6/28/2019
- Week 3: 7/1/2019–7/3/2019 (no camp 7/4 & 7/5)
- Week 4: 7/8/2019–7/12/2019
- Week 5: 7/15/2019–7/19/2019
- Week 6: 7/22/2019–7/26/2019
- Week 7: 7/29/2019–8/2/2019
- Week 8: 8/5/2019–8/9/2019
Cost:
- Weeks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8: $395/week
- Week 3: $300/week (reduced because there is no camp 7/4 & 7/5)
Age/Grade: Three to six years of age.
This camp is an annual favorite and fills up fast! It is designed to provide young campers with fulfilling imaginative playtime. Led by our own WWS teachers, this camp creates a healthy, safe environment where young children develop and thrive by being encouraged to run, dig, explore, garden, and build.
Note: Children must be potty trained.
Circus Camp
Instructor: Christian Gardiner
Session: 6/24/2019-6/28/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 3rd through 7th grades
Join one of our most beloved games teachers, Mr. Gardiner, for challenging and fun circus activities. Campers can learn to juggle, stilt walk, and unicycle. They will have a chance to walk on a tight wire, practice rings and aerial silks. Everyone can tumble, do acrobatics, and play balancing games and be in a show at the end of the week. Campers who just want to try new things without participating in the show will also have that opportunity.
Games and Cooking Camp FULL
Instructor: Chef Eron Picus
Session: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019 FULL
Cost: $445/week
Age/Grade: Rising 7th through 12th grades
NEW THIS YEAR! Chef Eron loves to cook, but he also enjoys playing too, so why not do both? Play chess, ping pong, or golf (just to name a few) in the morning and learn some of the many aspects of cooking in the afternoon. Learning about sautéing and how to “checkmate” all in the same day couldn’t be more fun, so sign up for this diverse camp fast because you can only have so many cooks in the kitchen and so many holes-in-one!
Theater Camp
Instructor: Brian Spitulnik
Sessions:
- Week 1: 6/17/2019–6/21/2019
- Week 2: 6/24/2019–6/28/2019
Cost: $395/week
Age/Grade: Rising 5th through 12th grades
All the world's a stage! Campers will explore improv (theater games and improvisational work), voice and speech (technique exercises and handling of written text), Shakespeare (text analysis, in-depth study of specific plays, and scene and monologue work), the Meisner technique (contemporary scene work and monologues), and acting for the camera (on camera scene work and film acting technique).
About Brian Spitulnik: Brian is a writer, actor, producer, and co-founder of 85th Street Productions. Brian holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Columbia University. Brian has written for The Daily Beast, McSweeney’s, and the Global Citizen Festivals in Johannesburg, London, and New York. He is the author of several plays, which have received productions regionally and in New York, and he is the recipient of the Avery Hopwood Literary Award, as well as the Newhouse Award and the Sono Osato Grant. Brian has been performing in film, television, and on Broadway for over ten years, and can currently be seen in the Broadway production of Chicago. Watch his film, Henry, at 85thstreetproductions.com
