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  AGES 4 TO 6  
Early Childhood — The Explorers
 

Their world

  • Sponges for information, questioning and curious
  • Learning to reason and understand their environment
  • More aware of the feelings, actions and motivations of others
  • Focusing more on how peers see them
  • Stronger physically, more co-ordinated and agile (conquering the monkey bars, learning how to throw and catch a ball)
  • Learning to read and write

Their concerns

  • Separation from parents
  • Specific fears—of the dark, of the unknown
  • Crave familiar food, toys, activities

What camp offers

  • Children learn to take part in more structured activities, such as crafts or field trips
  • Learning to take turns, to share and to consider the feelings of others
  • Encourages trust in adults other than parents
  • Increases confidence and comfort level about being apart from parents
  • Teaches children to take care of themselves, such as keeping track of the contents of a backpack
  • Some overnight camps offer short, partial-week stays as a gentle first experience for their youngest campers

 
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