Peoria Focus Online - 2009, Issue 2

Summer Recreation and Step Out

Summer Recreation and Step Out are drop-in programs that will run Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. from the day after Memorial Day through July 16. Summer Recreation is for children in the first through fifth grades and is located at seven Peoria elementary schools: Apache, Country Meadows, Coyote Hills, Oasis, Sundance, Sky View and Vistancia. The Step Out program is for rising sixth- through ninth-graders and is located at Peoria, Centennial and Sunrise Mountain high schools.

Summer recreation programs keep kids busy and allow them to meet new friends. Programs for kids of all ages are available through Peoria’s Community Services Department.

The programs feature arts and crafts, group games and free play to help the kids have a fun-filled summer and experience new and old age-appropriate recreational activities. There is a $60 supply fee for Peoria residents; $90 for non-residents. Optional off-site field trips will be offered throughout the week at an additional cost. Trip information will be available at the sites and online beginning May 18.

Because this is a drop-in program, children may leave at any time without permission. If this is not a program for you and your child, please check out the Summer Camp Program.

Summer Camp

The Summer Camp program for kids from kindergarten through eighth grade will run 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays from May 22 through July 31 at seven other Peoria elementary schools: Cheyenne, Desert Harbor, Frontier, Parkridge, Paseo Verde, Sun Valley and Zuni Hills.

Licensed by the state Department of Health Services (DHS), these camps are places for all-day fun. Not only are there arts and crafts, science projects and group games, but also field trips throughout the week. Registration fees are $24 per day or $98 per week.

Tiny Tots

The Tiny Tots program for children ages 4 and 5 will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays from May 26 through July 16 at Parkridge and Peoria elementary schools.

Also licensed by the DHS, it provides daily arts and crafts, music, story time, group games and free play. Tiny Tots is an excellent place for a child to develop social skills and enjoy great activities, but it is not a pre-school or day care. It is a recreation-based program. Registration is $60 for Peoria residents; $90 for non-residents. There also are field trips throughout the week at additional cost.

For more information on these programs, call 623-773-7137
or visit www.peoriaaz.gov/recreation and click on “Summer Programs.”

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