Fair Acres Country Day School & Summer Camp

Everywhere you go, people are bustling about this time of year and Fair Acres is no exception! We have holiday lights and decorations making our seven acres beautiful, Christmas trees in our classrooms, and we are learning about family holiday traditions. Fair Acres has fun celebrating all of the holidays that come about in December and the children could not be more excited! We are lighting our menorahs and spinning dreidels for Hanukkah, decorating Christmas trees and playing Santa for Christmas, talking about the Winter Soltice, setting the table for Kwanzaa, and making a new year’s resolution to ring in 2012! It is hard not to feel all the excitement this month!

Fair Acres celebrated Halloween with our annual family Halloween party on Friday October 28th! It was a hit, as always, thanks to the participation and support of our wonderful Fair Acres families! Throughout the morning we enjoyed an array of tasty treats. We also participated in games in the field such as pumpkin bowling, an obstacle course over bales of hay, a parachute game, potato sack races, spooky fishing and more! One of the biggest hits is always the hayride around the field. The morning was concluded with a costume parade around the field to thunderous applause from our Fair Acres parents! We are so happy to have such wonderful parent participation. The children, staff, and families had a wonderful day!

Here are a few photos from our fun morning!

     

We were even lucky enough to have the CapeCod Times visit us! Here is a link to the CapeCast video of our Halloween Parade!

http://youtu.be/zC3GngX0aUo

With Camp almost over we decided to take our staff out for a fun filled night to show our appreciation for all they have done this summer.   We were lucky enough to join a good crowd to watch/participate in Frank Santos Jr’s Friday Night Hypnotists Show.

Short stop ZachVincej and pitcher Jon Moscot from the Hyannis Harbor Hawks stopped in to run a t-ball clinic. Each age group spent their field period on the diamond with the two Cape Cod League players. It was such a great experience for our campers!!!!

Fair Acres Summer Camp has added a new specialty day to its camp!!!  Pirate Day has started off on the wooden leg………..if you get my drift.   Counselors did their best to dress like their favorite pirates and the campers are enjoying tons of pirate games.

Take a look at some of the funny photos from today!

What could be better than 100 gallons of water being dumped on you during a 90 degree day?   Our local EMT’s and Fire Fighters stopped by and cooled our campers off with the surprise of the summer!!!! Camper’s got the chance to stand out in our field while one of the fire trucks sprayed our campers down!!!

Check out these awesome pictures

Ask any camper who Mr. Fun and Mr. Awesome are and they can tell you. Counselors Cam Larson and Billy Sullivan created alter egos, the wheel of fun, and a dynamic personality during camp last year to try and spice up our circle time festivities. This year they have added a theme song and shirts to create an even more electrifying atmosphere at our favorite morning activity.  Take a look at the photos below to become familiar with this week’s stud counselors!!!!

Our first specialty day was a big hit!!!!!   The campers were split up into two teams Red vs Blue and competed all day long to see who this year’s champion would be. Camp favorites like garbage collector, the plunge, and counselor hunt were part of the festivities. It came down to our last event (counselor hunt) to decide a winner. The red team took home this year’s championship with the final score being 2150 to 1950.  Thank you to the staff and campers who made it such a special day!!!!!

 

Fair Acres opened their new state of the art water park. The waterpark is a new attraction for our youngest groups, it has been a nice upgrade for our hotttttt days thus far!!!!

Here are a few pictures

 

What a fun circle we had today!!! Our new staff got to experience their first mummified session. Campers and returning staff had the chance to make our new counselors welcomed by wrapping them in as much toilet paper as possible. Campers were given one song to wrap up their new counselors and it was a fantastic way to start off our Tuesday!!!