Registration for Langenburg’s Summer Dayz Program is open! Starting July 5, 2021, from Monday to Thursday children can partake in a variety of sport, culture, and recreation activities. The program goes throughout the summer and ends on August 26, 2021. To participate in the program, children must be between the ages of five and twelve. Summer Dayz provides kids with a safe, energetic, and fun space that encourages unstructured play, mastering skills, diversity, and building positive relationships between peers.
The Summer Dayz Program is an affordable option for parents with children too old for daycare but too young to stay home all day while parents are at work. Recreation Director Juli Mitschke said it was “ a great way for parents to know their children are staying active in a safe and healthy environment”.
The lead organizers of the activities are encouraged to set up a variety of adventures throughout the community. In the past, they have also partnered with businesses and organizations to provide different experiences for the children. Crafts with Langenburg’s Kadiazy, yoga classes, visits to bee farms, and escapades to goat farms have program favourites.
Summer Dayz also has great value to older students; it provides great work experience. Summer Dayz hires two high school or secondary students to run the program. The young adults are responsible for organizing and scheduling days. They also develop skills in communication, organization, teamwork, and teaching. In addition to strengthening skillsets, the program allows the students to be “very independent and become confident leaders,” added Mitschke.
Langenburg’s Summer Dayz Program is taking all the necessary steps to keep participants safe. If participating children experience any symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, newly developed cough, runny nose, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle ache, headache, the new loss of taste and/or smell, conjunctivitis, and/or feeling unwell, they are required to stay home and monitor symptoms.
Due to COVID-19, the program is only admitted to taking sixteen youth per day unless restrictions shift. The cost for registration is $12 per day or $45 per week. Parents and guardians are not to assume their child is registered unless an email confirmation has been sent to them. Summer Dayz runs from 8:30-16:00 daily. Registration takes place online, or interested persons can contact Juli Mitschke at the Recreation office at recreation@langenburg.ca.