Fair Acres Country Day School & Summer Camp

We are in the home stretch of preparations for our end of the year celebration on Wed. June 23rd and the children could not be more excited! We have been practicing for months now and the classes have all their songs down pat. Our theme this year is Fair Acres Summer Luau. Performances will include the three year olds singing “Caribbean Amphibian,” “Octopus’s Garden,” the Pre-K singing “Catch A Wave,” and “Day-O,” and the Kindergarten acting out the Three Little Hawaiian Pigs! There will be many more songs and surprises throughout the night! We are really looking forward to this fun-filled night and hope you will be able to join us! Trolley service will begin at 5:30 to & from the parking area at West Villages Elementary school. We ask that all children are in the classrooms by 6:00 for a 6:30 show start time. This show wows the crowd every year and this year will not be any different! We hope you can all join us as we celebrate a great school year and congratulate our graduating kindergarteners as they receive their diplomas.

Fair Acres is buzzing with plans for a great summer season! All of the Fair Acres children just participated in Camp Day with Camp Director Craig Davidson and Camp Counselor Cameron Larson. They loved playing games, searching for treasure, and making a craft. Camp registrations are flying in as we get closer and closer to the kick off of Camp 2010! Don’t miss out on a summer to remember! Call Jodi or Jen at 508-420-3288 with any questions.

This Saturday, Fair Acres is kicking off our first ever T-ball clinic. Camp Director & Bourne High School baseball coach Craig Davidson will be teaching the basics of catching, throwing, and hitting over a five week period. The last Saturday will be game day! Price is $95 for 5 weeks and includes a Fair Acres T-Ball shirt. Clinics will take place on the Fair Acres field from 10:00-11:30 AM.

Well the sunshine and some warmer temperatures have finally arrived! We are so excited and taking full advantage of our outside time. We are making use of our giant soccer field, courts, and exciting playground. The sunshine also has us looking ahead to summer and more specifically to summer camp 2010! Registration opened this week for our great camp season which this year will run from July 5th- August 27th. The camp runs in two week sessions and is for children ages 4-11. An action packed camp day consists of music & movement, swimming lessons, arts & crafts, court sports, field games, and free swim. Your child is sure to go home at the end of each day happy, tired, and excited to come back the next day. To find out more about securing your spot for a fun filled summer at Fair Acres Summer Camp, give us a call at 508-420-3288. We look forward to speaking with you!

We are half way through our learn to skate program with our Pre-K & Kindergarten students and we could not be more proud! After just two lessons, we are already set to give up holding on to the milk crates and skate all on our own. The children have progressed so quickly. We are really enjoying our ice time at the new Hyannis Youth Community Center! We have been fortunate enough to have many of our parents join us to help tie skates and/or come on the ice with us which has been so helpful and a special treat for all the children! We are all looking forward to tomorrow and will be sad that next week is our last trip to the rink. Check out our photos to see some of the fun!

Happy 2010 to everyone! We are off to a busy start at Fair Acres. We are getting ready for our learn to ice skate program with our Pre-K & Kindergarten students. For four Tuesdays we will be going by bus to the shiney new Hyannis Youth Community Center and learning how to ice skate! This is always a fun program and we love to watch how quickly they progress! We are also beginning Fall registration for the 2010-2011 school year beginning next week. Call today to schedule a tour…more information to follow! Finally, we began one of our afternoon enrichment programs yesterday. This class is called Art Explorations and is run by a local artist named Maureen Carven. Children who signed up for this special class will be exploring different art mediums through connected literature. Yesterday they began sculpting with clay and made little mice. The children all had so much fun and are looking forward to painting their mice once they come back from the kiln. Fair Acres offers several afternoon enrichment programs to students in a range of topics such as music, art, cooking, & book clubs.

Hello Everyone,
Fair Acres was closed yesterday due to the Blizzard of 2009. We are back in school today and enjoying the aftermath! The children are all bundled up and playing in the our snowy winter wonderland. We are making snowmen, playing with sleds, and making snow angels…so much fun! One of the things that makes Fair Acres special is our commitment to outdoor activities and physical development. We love to play outside and think it is an important part of well-rounded child development.

Registration for the 2010-2011 school year will begin in January…stay tuned for details! Beat the registration rush, call today to schedule a January tour…508-420-3288.

From our family to yours, wishing you all a happy, healthy holiday season. See you in 2010!

Our classrooms have been learning about community helpers this month. To add to the excitement, we had a great visit with the C.O.M.M. Fire Department and with the Barnstable Police Department! Each of the departments spent time in the classrooms talking about their jobs as community helpers and then let the children go outside to explore the ambulance, fire truck, and police cars. It was so much fun!

We have finished another fantastic summer camp season at Fair Acres and the 2009-2010 school year is off to a great start. All of the children seem to be adjusting well to their new school/ new classrooms and we are happy to have their smiling faces back in the classrooms! We hope you can all join us for our Open House when the teachers will give you more details about their plans for the upcoming school year and you will get a chance to experience Fair Acres first hand just like your children do. Open House for the Fair Building (Pre-K & Kindergarten classes) is tonight from 7:00-8:30 and the Sanborn Building (three year old classes) is tomorrow night, Tues. 9/22, from 7:00-8:30. We hope you can make it!

Fair Acres Summer Day Camp has been in operation for more than 40 years. The pictures below will give you a peek into the past. When the Fair family started Fair Acres, the campers were always having fun. Now more than 40 years later…the fun continues as we strive to make every summer even more fun than the last. Join us for the Summer of 2010 which is sure to be the most unforgetable summer yet and one your children will remember for a lifetime!