Situated along the glistening shores of Lake Massapoag in Sharon, MA, Everwood Day Camp offers campers ages 4 to 15 a summer of sports, arts, and outdoor activities, in an environment that’s uniquely suited to encourage their growth. Our dynamic camp program grows with our campers and includes a wide variety of activities to keep every child engaged. Our nurturing staff encourages social and emotional skill development throughout each moment of the day. Our 70-acre dedicated camp facility includes over 40 cabin spaces, lodges, fields, courts and two incredible waterfronts. At Everwood Day Camp, campers experience all the fun and friendship of camp life, plus the support of a community that’s committed to providing skills for life.

The Everwood Five Star Points

The Five Star Points are the foundation of our camp culture. These points embody 5 characteristics that reflect the social and emotional goals we have for our campers and staff each summer and we’ve integrated them into everything we do. From staff training and evaluations, daily activities, special events, even our bus rides to and from camp, our campers and staff members know that our 5 Star Points are what is valued most. By letting the Five Star Point be their guide all summer long, our campers and staff turn actions into skills they’ll use to contribute to the world beyond campus.

★ Independence

Independence at Everwood comes in a variety of forms. For younger campers it starts with learning to take care of their belongings, and by being away from Mom and Dad during the camp day. It also happens through physical skill development, like down at the lake, where our instructors and lifeguards support them as they learn to swim. As our kids get a bit older, independence becomes more nuanced, because we loosen the reins and allow them to focus on their individual passions and interests through our elective program

★ Integrity

At Everwood we acknowledge when our campers do the right thing, big or small; from playing a game by the rules, to picking up trash even if it wasn’t theirs. When we recognize kids performing these simple acts, we help to reinforce a pattern of integrity that’ll manifest itself over and over again.

★ Friendship

Everwood is a place that’s unlike any our campers will encounter elsewhere, and the adventures they share–on the ropes course, in our performing arts center, out on Lake Massapoag–and the memories they make are the very fabric of tight-knit friendships. Whether or not our campers know someone else before stepping on the bus for the first time, our counselors are experts at acclimating campers to life at camp making connections with others.

★ Teamwork

From canoe races to our playing fields to our Ropes Course–there are endless occasions for teamwork here at Everwood. Our kids also come together to paint murals, run relay races, produce plays, and create original camp songs. Through these activities campers appreciate just how much more they can do (and how much more fun they’ll have) by collaborating as a team, and what’s more, they learn to compromise to make it happen.

★ Inspiration

You’ll find inspiration everywhere you look at Everwood, and that’s because our campers are always trying–and thriving–at activities they haven’t before. Kayaking, pottery, yoga, the infamous Jello Tug-of-War, and our Zipline that sends kids cruising between hundred foot pine trees–these are but a few of the unforgettable moments that campers will have while they’re here with us.

We believe in empowering children by offering them opportunities to explore, create, imagine, discover and grow through hands-on activities and direct experiences with nature.  We promote social/emotional learning, self-­help, and cognitive skills as well as encourage a lifelong love, respect and understanding of the greater world around us.  All curriculum activities align with Massachusetts DESE Curriculum Frameworks, and will prepare children for school and the world beyond their Kindergarten year.

In Kindergarten, children learn to identify letters, how to write letters, and the sounds each letter makes.  They also begin to form words and practice writing stories and sentences.  For example, If your child’s remote learning goal involves  learning about the letter “T” and the sound T makes,  they may be given a worksheet to practice writing uppercase and lowercase T’s, and perhaps come up with a list of things they find in their environment that start with T.  All typical public school kindergarten work.

 

 

Now this is where we see so much possibility and have tremendous ability to extend this learning.  Our creative teachers will take your children OUTSIDE and explore real things to help them learn sounds and letters.  We’ll explore trees and find other nature items that begin with T.  We will make the letter “T” out of twigs and go on a hunt for toads (which maybe then turns into a science lesson on toads).  We have the children do observational drawings of a tree they see and talk about the different parts of a tree (maybe also doing still life paintings to bring in art and color mixing). We might make “tunnels” out of things we find in the forest and see how we can make them sturdy so they do not collapse.

 

 

Perhaps a child will make an observation that some things they see outside are TINY and some things are TALL.  This then extends to common kindergarten math lessons in number concepts focused on addition, subtraction and graphing.  We will graph things that are tall and things that are

tiny while discussing more and less and adding and subtracting based on what we find.

There are endless possibilities for learning when children are given the chance to explore their environment and make connections.  This type of learning and extension into nature is what our program is all about.

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We are happy to announce that Everwood Kids is expanding our offerings to after school programming for the 2021-2022 school year!

Our incredible facility provides perfect space for play and social engagement no matter what season.  Activities during after-school time will include many camp activities including sports and arts all focusing on providing the group supervised and supported social learning opportunities and enrichment.  We will be outside for as much of the time as possible.