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News: Summer Community Ed Camps Start June 6 in Friendswood
posted: May 27, 2011

The Friendswood ISD Community Education Summer Enrichment Program is set to begin Monday, June 6, and run for 4 weeks through June 30, at Bales Intermediate School on Stadium Lane.  This year’s planned activities feature a wide range of morning and afternoon camps and classes for youngsters entering pre-K through 9th grade and take place Monday-Thursday of each week.

A few of our many popular camps include: Adventures in Game Design, Babysitting (Red Cross Certified), Books for Little Readers, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! Camp Pink, Camp Rockstar, Cheer Camp, Cooking 1, 2, 3, Cooking & Chemistry, Creatives Cupcakes, Creative Drama/Storytelling, Dance/Drill, Digital Storytelling, Dinos Rock!, Dissections!, Drama Camp, Edible Art, Film-Making, Kids' Shakespeare, Let Freedom Ring, Make It FACTS, Make It MATH, Manners Matter, Mix It Up Science!, Music & Movement, Spectacular Science, Short Order Cooks I & II, Summer Kick Off, and TESSELLATIONs.  Several online classes are also offered for older students. 

Extra sessions of our extremely sought-after Lego Robotics Camps have been added this summer, so that most interested students can be included.  These camps are taught in a work at your own speed format, so participants may progress as far as possible during their camp. 

Numerous Art and Crafts Camps are also offered.  These include:  Adventures in Art, Animal Art, Artistic Stepping Stones, Easy Crochet, Fairy Doors, Felting, Fiber Coil Basket Crafts, Fun with Fabric, Jewelry for Beginners, Kids’ Glass Painting, Knitting, MIY (Make It Yourself) Paint & Paper, Paint with Plaster, Pot Hangers with Bling, TESSELLATIONs, and Wire-Inspired!

Community Ed also offers several recreational level Sports Camps during this action packed month!  These include Basketball, Flag Football, Lacrosse and Volleyball.  Sessions of Tennis are offered during June, July and August.

Each camp is designed for a specific age or grade range of students.  This information may be found in the Summer Program list of classes and camps which is posted online on the Community Education page located under Departments at the Friendswood ISD website, www.fisdk12.net.  One brochure lists all of the camps and classes while the other focuses exclusively on junior high school students.

Print flyers can be picked up in the Community Education Office and FISD Administration, 302 Laurel Drive, the Friendswood Public Library, and FISD Elementary, Intermediate, and Junior High School campus offices.

Please call the Community Education Office, 281.482.6000, or email lbridgett@fisdk12.net for information about the Community Education Summer Program, our online classes, or for registration information.  The Community Ed office is located in portable building #111 behind the FISD Administration Building.  Office hours are listed in the summer flyer and voicemail.