Shakopee, Minnesota - Children can explore their interests and have a great time while learning new skills at Playworks Summer Camp Rocks 2008. They will have so much fun they won't even realize they are learning. Enrollment opens March 1, 2008, to the public for Playworks Summer Camp Rocks 2008, a one-of-a-kind recreational day camp for children in grades first through sixth. Registration is free if your child is registered before March 31, 2008. That's a savings of $60 per child!

Playworks Summer Camp is a fun program filled with a variety of activities to stimulate children’s interests and get them moving, like outdoor games; arts and crafts; cooking; guest entertainers; computer learning and games; and science and nature activities. There are exciting field trips to beaches, pools, parks, museums, amusement parks, historic locations, and other area attractions. Community service projects will instill in children the importance of helping others. Ice skating, rock climbing, swimming, and playing in the gym next door at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness will also keep campers active all summer long.

After returning from their field trips, kids can explore their interests with Mini Camps, choosing from such topics as creative writing, cooking, dinosaurs, gardening, party planning, bugs, painting, sports, and more! If they just want to relax, they can choose "Couch Potato Camp” and read a book, play computer games, watch a movie, or have free play. Summer Camp classrooms have fun learning centers like language arts, computers, music and drama, arts and crafts, science and nature, math, and more. Teachers plan fun classroom theme days that could include everything from Crazy Hair Day to Olympic games.

Older children have the opportunity to participate in an ecology project under the direction of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Land and Natural Resources Department. Children conduct a number of experiments including water quality sampling, bug collection, and flow monitoring for several weeks at a Dakota sacred site called Maka Yusota (Boiling Springs) near the reservation. Older children will also be able to package meals for Third World countries with the organization Feed My Starving Children.

Playworks Summer Camp runs Monday through Friday from June 9, 2008 - August 29, 2008, from 6:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Campers may choose to attend one, two, three, or five days a week. A part-time option is 1, 2, or 3 days a week for 12 consecutive weeks. Full-time options up to 50 hours per week are for 4-8 weeks, 9-11 weeks, and 12-14 weeks. There is an additional discount for a second full-time child for the 12-14 week option. Rates include all fieldtrips, special guests, projects, meals, and picnic lunches.

As always, the upcoming Summer Camp session will be jam-packed with loads of exciting activities and adventures. Top it all off with playtime in the giant indoor playstructure, and it’s easy to see why Playworks Summer Camp Rocks 2008 just might be the best summer camp ever! Have your child experience Playworks Summer Camp Rocks 2008 and see for yourself: nobody does Summer Camp better than Playworks! For more information, call 952-496-6811. Find your child’s best summer ever at Playworks Summer Camp 2008.

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