It’s Gonna Be a Sizzlin’ Summer!

Every year, students and staff get excited and anxious thinking about our summer program. As spring rolls around, kids begin to ask “What are we going to do this summer?”; while staff smile and say, “I don’t know…what ARE we going to do?!” The summer holds many possibilities each year for new programs, fresh ideas, and friendships and collaborations with community organizations and members. The addition of a new center has provided even more possibilities for summer programming as well.

Every summer, we learn and grow in our program planning and approach. One of the main components that we have added to our summer program includes a more “camp-like” feel which offers more variety and student choice. We will include two themes, “Lights, Camera, Action!” and “Amazing Athletes”, but we will also be adding a dash of “this” and “that” to create a rich, well-rounded, and EXCITING program at both of our centers that will energize the minds, bodies, and spirits of students, staff, volunteers, the community and Heart House friends!

Some of the sizzlin’ activities tentatively on our schedule include: fashion class, movement math, mad science lab, sign language, reader’s theatre, green thumb gardening club, self-defense, a partnership with Badgerpup’s creative writing workshop, and so much more!



And on a side note: Last year, our summer was very successful due to the addition of Heart House Idol which has been highly requested…..requested since September of last year! Students, staff, and families can definitely look forward to a fresh version of this program, full of fun student performances and panels of judges. They may also be seeing the addition of several other hot adaptations of TV game shows, including “Are You Smarter than a Heart House kid?” and perhaps our first ever “Family Feud”.

You never know what will happen each day at the Heart House summer program…..

And YES…..there will be a whole lot of swimming!