Make new friends! Enjoy new experiences!
Arts and crafts, games, songs, storytelling,
waterplay, and lots of outdoor fun. Check
ages listed and sign up for one or all sessions.
Program content will not be repeated. SEND A SNACK AND DRINK DAILY.

Castle Tales Camp

(4–7 yrs) (1 week)

Come to the land of dragons, knights, princesses, and fairies. Young campers will craft their own costumes and backdrop as they learn four types of storytelling; have a puppet show; do story dances; a straight play; and learn felt board stories sequencing. Each day includes learning a new song and bring lunch for a tea party each day. Performance: last hour on Friday. Note: Children, 3.5 yrs, can register if older sibling is enrolled.

Instructor: Andrea Gaspari
…Andrea’s Musical Adventures; winner, three-time Bay Area Family Favorite

6633.901 July 12–July 16
6633.902 Aug. 9–Aug. 13

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon

6633.903 Aug. 9–Aug. 13

• Mon–Fri, 2–5 pm
• Fee: $175 / Dist. Res. $160
  
• Community Ctr.: 601 Upper Club Rm.
• 902/903 Pre-school Rm.

Daycamp for Little People

(4 through 6 yrs) (2 weeks)

Instructors: Margret Graves / Staff
6650.901 June 15–June 24*
6650.902 June 28–July 8
6650.903 July 12–July 22
6650.904 July 26–Aug. 5
6650.905 Aug. 9–Aug. 19

• Mon–Th, 12:30–3 pm
  *Class begins on Tue., June 15
  
• Fee: $136 / Dist. Res. $121
  ($4 lab fee included)
  
• Winslow Ctr.: Rm. 3, 2590 Pleasant Hill Rd.

LEGO Camp -

Play-Well Tecknologies
Pre-Engineering Camp
(5–6 yrs) (1 week)

Create, play, and learn. Design a town, city,
or star base with houses, buildings, pyramids, bridges, tunnels, towers, and more. Build cars, trains, buses, and trucks; race them; crash them; repair them. Explore the possibilities of LEGO® building systems while learning valuable construction techniques. THESE CAMPS ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE LEGO GROUP. For more information, go to www.play-well.org.
6054.901 June 28–July 2
6054.903 Aug. 2–Aug. 6

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon
• Fee: $234 / Dist. Res. $219
• Community Ctr.: Upper Club Rm.

Mad Science Camp

(3.5 yrs to Kindergarten) (4-day camps)
Come have fun in these interactive and engaging camps

.901 My First Lab– Junior Mad Scientists will explore their sense of sight, sound, smell, taste,and touch as they discover the world fo creepy crawly creatures and explore the scnience and creatures of the sea. Campers will search for fossils; participate in a mini dinosaur dig; and take an exciting mission with Mad Science to explore the planets, moon, and stars.

.902 Future Geniuses – Young minds will become inspired with this hands-on science program tailored for preschool and kindergartners. Using the scientific method to uncover the mysteries of motion and energy, campers will experiment with everything from color to structures and from music to space.

6630.901 June 15–June 18 (First Lab)
6630.902 July 6–July 9 (Geniuses)

• Mon–Th., 9 am–noon
• Fee: $179 / Dist. Res. $164
• Community Ctr.: Upper Club Rm.

Mini-Daycamp

(3 to 4 yrs) (2 weeks)
Instructors: Jan Blythe / Staff
6651
.901 June 15–June 24
.902 June 29–July 8
.903 July 13–July 22
.904 July 27–Aug. 5
.905 Aug. 10–Aug. 19

• Tue–Th, 9:15–11:45 am
• Fee: $122 / Dist. Res. $107
  ($3 lab fee included)
• Winslow Ctr.: 2590 Pleasant Hill Rd.

Pre-School Summer Camp

(3 1/2–5 yrs) (2 weeks)

Instructors: Tina Fitzsimmons
Kathy Phalen & Staff
6652
.901 June 15–June 24
.902 June 29–July 8
.903 July 13–July 22
.904 July 27–Aug. 5

• Tue–Th, 9:30 am–noon
• Fee: $118 / Dist. Res. $103
  ($3 lab fee included)
• Community Ctr.: Pre-School Rm.

Summer Tots

(2 1/2 to 31/2 yrs) (4 weeks)
Instructors: Margret Graves / Staff
6654.901 June 15–July 8
6654.902 July 13–Aug. 5

• Tue/Th, 9:30 am–noon
• Fee: $164/ Dist. Res. $149
  ($4 lab fee included)
• Community Ctr.: Wee-Tot Rm.

Summertime Places

(Entering Grades K–2) (2 weeks)
See Youth

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Kidz Love Soccer Camp

Boys & Girls (4.5-12 yrs)

Where the score is always fun-to-fun™.

SHIN-GUARDS, SOCCER SHOES,
AND SUNSCREEN ARE REQUIRED.

Pre-Soccer Camps – Youongsters willhave awesome soccer fun in this recreeational program. Every day will be full of soccer action and fun games where every player has a ball at his or her feet.

Half-Day Camps – Spend a week enjoying the world's most popular sport in a fun, recreational environment. Learn and practice soccer skills including: dribbling moves and team tactics such as possession and combinaion play. Everyone is a winner as the week's fun culminates in an age-appproprate "World Cup" tournament.

Instructor: Kidz Love Soccer Staff...trained in the Kidz Love Soccer method©

5039 June 21–June 25 (Mon–Fri)
5040 July 19-July 23 (Mon–Fri)

.901 Pre-Soccer (4.5–4.9 yrs) 9–10:30 am

Half-Day
.902 Level 1 / 5–6 yrs, 9–1 pm
.903 Level 2 / 7–8 yrs, 9 am–1 pm
.904 Level 3 / 9–12 yrs, 9 am–1 pm

• Fee: Pre-Soccer $75 / Dist. Res. $65
• Fee: Half-Day $142 / Dist. Res. $132
• Rodgers-Smith Park: 736 Grayson Rd.
  (Turf Area behind Bocce Courts & Blacktop area.)

Junior Golf Camps

(8–17 yrs)
(5 classes, 10-hours instruction)
Swing into summer at the Buchanan
Fields! Enjoy five days of intense golf
training by the area’s finest teaching staff.
ALL camps will be taught at the Beginner
and Advance Beginner level. Practice balls are included; lunch is not.
Instructors: Buchanan Fields Staff
5545
.901 June 21–June 25
.902 July 5–July 9
.903 July 19–July 23
.904 Aug. 2–Aug. 6

• Mon–Fri, 1–3 pm
• Fee: $120/person
  
• Buchanan Fields Golf Course:
  1091 Concord Avenue, Concord

Youth Tennis Camps

(Youth 6–12 yrs) (1-week camp)
This camp offers age appropriate activities and games in stroke development, team play, and more, developing lifetime skils. Bring a tennis racquet, water, and a snack, wear “tennis” shoes. Lunch is NOT provided. Space will be limited to insure optimum instruction, so sign up soon!
Instructor: Deborah Gantt, USTA Member,
U.S. National Tennis Academy Certified, College Park High School Boys Tennis Coach; 20+ yrs experience.
5589
.901 June 21–June 25
.902 June 28–July 2
.903 July 5–July 9
.904 July 12–July 16
.905 July 19–July 23
.906 July 26–July 30
.907 Aug. 2–Aug. 6
.908 Aug. 9–Aug. 13

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon
• Fee: $127 / Dist. Res. $117
• College Park H.S. Tennis Courts
  320 Civic Dr.: (adjacent to the Community Ctr. parking lot)

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Castle Tales Musical Theatre Camp

(4–7 yrs) (1 week)
Come to the land of dragons, knights, princesses, and fairies. Young campers will craft their own costumes and backdrop as they learn four types of storytelling; have a puppet show; do story dances and straight play; learn felt board stories sequence, and learn new songs daily. Bring lunch for a tea party each day. Performance: last hour on Friday

Note: Children, 3.5 yrs, can register if older
sibling is enrolled.
Instructor: Andrea Gaspari
…Andrea’s Musical Adventures; winner, three-time Bay Area Family Favorite
6634.601 July 13–July 17
6634.602 Aug. 10–Aug. 14

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon
• 6634.603 Aug. 10–Aug. 14
• Mon–Fri, 2–5 pm
• Fee: $175 / Dist. Res. $160
  
• Community Ctr.: 601 Upper Club Rm.
  602/603 Pre-school Rm.

Comic Book Kids Camp

(5.5–11 yrs) (1 week)
Make and design your own comic book from
start to finish! Learn important creative aspects and techniques to enhance your comic book. Share your comic adventure with classmates and let your imagination run free!
Take home your original hardback comic
book and designed poster at the end of the
session. Let’s get creative!
Instructor: Dora Wedekind
6042.601 July 20–July 24

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon
• Fee: $184 / Dist. Res. $169
  (+$10 lab fee payable to instructor)
• Community Ctr.: Art Studio

Critters ‘n Clay™ Camp

(4.5–9 yrs) (1 week)
Enrich your child’s world with a delightful hour of integrating science, sculpting, and literature!
Learn about a different animal each day,
sculpt it out of clay, and hear a story about the “critter du jour.” Basic sculpting and glazing techniques are taught to assist in the creation of four family heirlooms.
Instructor: Hilary Ford
6059.601 June 22–June 25

• Mon–Th, 11 am–noon
  (Return June 29 to glaze project,)
• Fee: $99 / Dist. Res. $84
  (+$20 lab fee payable to instructor)

Adventure Kids
Summer Camp

June 16–Aug. 14
(Entering grades 1–5)

KIDSTOP Children Center, 1 Corritone Ct.
Searching for adventure for your child this
summer? Choose your time and sign up
for part or all of this action-packed summer
program. Trips, swim days, events, arts/
crafts, games, sports, based on exciting
weekly themes. Activities included in registration:

Mon/Wed/Fri, weekly swim days at
PH Aquatics Park; Tuesday is Wheel Day;
Thursday, field trips (site is closed during trip hours). Bring lunch / drink daily; two snacks provided. REGISTRATION begins March 16; space is limited.

Register at the Pleasant Hill Community
Center, 320 Civic Drive, Monday-Friday,
9 am–3 pm, or Administration office,
147 Gregory Lane, 11 am–5 pm. Please
pick up a Registration Packet containing
enrollment form, liability waiver, and a
permission slip.

• Registration is accepted for Full Days,
  7 am–6:30 pm or Rec Days, any six-hour
  block of time. You may sign up for one
  week (three days minimum) or as many
  weeks as fit your schedule per month.
• You must complete the enrollment form
  by the 15th of the month preceding
  attendance in order for your child to
  attend and you will be billed accordingly.
• A $100 non-refundable fee is required
  upon registration and is deducted from
  your first month’s billing.
• Fee: $42/day Full Day, 7 am–6:30 pm
  $32/day Rec Day, any six-hour block of time.

Note: Rec Day students who only attend the
three-day minimum requirement will be charged an additional $10/week for swim day; no add’l charge to full-day student.

For questions, call Pam Lischeske,
676-5200 ext. 17.

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Mad Science Camps

(Grades 1-5) (1 week)

.601 Flight Academy – Sign-up for Mad Science Flight Academy and explore the fundamentals of flight. Learn celestial navigation and discover the wonders of the Milky Way. See how air and wind affect kites, hot air balloons and parachutes. Discover the fundamentals of rocketry, the stages of rocket flight and experiment with huge water rockets. We each build our rockets that you can launch. Take-homes include the new Mad Science Skyblazer rocket, a rubber bandpowered airplane, a kite, a boomerang, a mini flying disc, a propeller-driven space orbiter and more!

.602 Mad Machines & Robots – Whether your child loves to build things or destroy them, this week of camp includes lots of both! The Junior Mad Science engineers will design and build structures using simple tools and their imaginations. Kids will construct a geodesic dome big enough for all the campers to sit inside! Then the machine madness starts as children discover how many different machines simple and complex, are used in our daily lives. Campers will design simple machines using pulleys, wedges, screws, levers, and learn how catapults work… then on to the Mad Science robots! Each camper will build robots to keep, all the while learning the science of robotics.

.603 NASA: Journey into Outer Space – Mad Science and NASA’s after-school program is now a summer camp! From our atmosphere to the outer reaches of our solar system, this hands-on program sends campers on a quest for exploration! Comets, planets, stars, and more are waiting to be discovered. Learn about the four forces of flight and the challenges of space travel: Earth and Beyond, Astronaut-in-Training, Solar Launch, Eye on the Sky, and Space Voyage! Includes a take-home every day.

Mornings

6062.601 July 20–July 24
6062.603 Aug. 10– Aug. 14

• Mon–Fri., 9 am–noon
• Fee: $190 / Dist. Res. $174

Afternoons

6062.602 Aug. 3–Aug. 7

• Mon–Fri, 1–4 pm
• Fee: $199 / Dist. Res. $184
• Community Ctr.: Upper Club Rm.

LEGO Camp –

Play-Well Tecknologies
(5–6 yrs) (7–12 yrs) (1-week)
Take a “crash course” in Demolition Derby; enter the Sumo Wrestling Competition; design a Mighty Metropolis; build and race a Locomotive faster than a speeding Worm Drive. Instruction is given appropriate to age / facility with LEGO® Technic System components. Camps are suitable for LEGO® novices to “maniacs.”
THESE CAMPS ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH
THE LEGO GROUP. For more information, go to www.play-well.org.

Pre-Engineering Camp
(5–6 yrs) (1 week)
Create, play, and learn. Design a town, city,
or star base with houses, buildings, pyramids, bridges, tunnels, towers, and more. Build cars, trains, buses, and trucks; race them; crash them; repair them. Explore the possibilities of LEGO® building systems while learning valuable construction techniques.
6054.601 June 29–July 3
6054.603 July 27–July 31

• Mon–Fri, 9 am–noon

Engineering FUNdamentals Camp

(7–12 yrs) (1 week)
Explore concepts in physics and engineering
while designing and building motorized machines, catapults, pyramids, derby cars, truss and suspension bridges, buildings, and other constructions. This is a hands-and-minds-on class suitable for LEGO building system novices to “maniacs.” Returning students will work on new projects.
6054.602 June 29–July 3
6054.604 July 27–July 31

• Mon–Fri, 1–4 pm
• Fee: $202 / Dist. Res. $187
• Community Ctr.: Upper Club Rm.

Summertime Places

(Entering Grades K–2) (2 weeks)
Fun and adventure, including field trips and special guests! Bring lunch/drink in daypack.
Tuesday – Rodgers-Smith Park for arts/crafts
and active games.
Wednesday – Brookwood Park for a variety of
camp activities. Meets at various park facilities on 2nd Wednesday.
Thursday – Rodgers-Smith Park for arts/crafts and active games.
Register for more than one session; program
content is not repeated. Priority Pre-School
students (entering K) are given advance
registration.
6074
.601 June 16–June 25
.602 June 30–July 9
.603 July 14–July 23
.604 July. 28–Aug. 6

• Tue–Th, 9:15 am–12:15 pm
• Fee: $124 / Dist. Res. $109
  ($6 lab fee included)

Tumbleweeds

(10–20 yrs) (8+ weeks)

S.T.A.G.E. Troupe Summer Reparatory Camp will present Tumbleweeds, a musical
production, based on the comic strip by Tom Ryan, July 31–Aug. 10. For audition prepare a 1-minute up-beat song and be ready to move on stage. You may vocally audition with sheet music, acapella or with accompaniment tape. A Medical Waiver must be completed prior to participation. Parent participation required. For tickets, call 682-0896.
Director: Sophia Elliot, Producer: Doña Foreman

Auditions
May 16, 20, 27 (call backs May 30)

• Sat.,11 am–2 pm;
• Wed., 4–6 pm

Cast Only Script Pickup

• June 3, Wed., 4–6 pm

Parent Meeting

• June 6, Sat., 1:30–2:30 pm

Rehearsals
June 6–July 25

• Sat., 10:30 am–2:30 pm*
  *Only June 6, June 20,

July 18, 25

• Mon/Wed/Fri., 2–5 pm**
  **Only Fridays: June 12, 26,
  July 10, 24

• Fee:
  $225 / Dist. Res. $210
  (+$50 lab fee payable to BTSPA)
  
• Winslow Ctr.:
  2590 Pleasant Hill Rd. Assembly Room (Fri/Sat.), Rooms 1 & 2 (M/W/F)

Teen Scene Extreme Summer

June 22– August 14
(Entering grades 6–9) (1-week daycamps)
Have an extreme adventure with this flexible
program set to fit your family’s needs.
Sign up for one to eight weeks; X-tra Time,
half days and trip day pricing available for
working parents and teens with other activities.

Activities included in registration: Mon.,
Community Service Projects; Tue / Th.,
weekly PM swim days at PH Aquatic Park;
Wed,, weekly trips to theme parks; Fri.,
Mini-Trips including Laser Tag, movies, and
Bowling; Daily activities include indoor and
outdoor games, art projects, Billiards, Foosball, Ping-Pong, swimming, movies, group walks, social time, plus potluck BBQs. Bus stops 109 and 116. $75 non-refundable fee is required at enrollment and will be deducted from registration fees.

Full Days $45*

• Mon–Fri., 9 am–5:30 pm
  *(15% Discount for full-week sign up)
  Mornings Only $23/day
  
• Mon/Tue/Th, 9 am–noon
  Afternoons Only $23/day
  
• Mon/Tue/Th, Noon–5:30 pm
  X-tra Time (Extended care) $8/day
  

Mon–Fri, 7:30–9 am
June 22–June 26
June 29–July 2
July 6–July 10
July 13–July 17
July 20–July 24
July 27–July 31
Aug. 3–Aug. 7
Aug. 10–Aug. 14

• PH Park: Teen Ctr., 147 Gregory Ln.

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Games Club Summer Camp

Zone of the Strategy Masters
(Grades 4–8) (1 week)
Play and learn Chess, Checkers, Stratego, Computer and Knightmare Chess and similar games of strategy. Tournaments, life-size Chess match, arts & crafts, Skeepool, movies, BBQ’s, water games, field trips, outdoor activities, and challenging and classic board games.
Leader: Dave DeFabio
5103.601 June 15–June 19
5103.602 July 13–July 17
5103.603 Aug. 24–Aug. 28

• Mon–Fri, 10 am–6 pm
• Fee: $113 / Dist. Res. $98
• .601/.603, PH Park: Teen Ctr.,
  147 Gregory Ln.
  .602, Community Ctr.; Art Studio,
  320 Civic Drive