PLAYtime is Bringing Summer Camp to You!
PLAYtime Summer Camp is back and once again – it’s absolutely FREE! The United Way is bringing PLAYtime to your neighborhood for some weekly summer camp fun. Bring the whole gang!
Each Tuesday over the summer, your PLAYtime friends will share 90-minutes of songs, games, creatives states and more!
Giveaways include snacks and a family treat to take home each day! Come weekly, and you’ll recieve camp coupons to be redeemed for fun stuff on the last day of camp!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE: All you have to do is show up? Escape the summer heat and join us in the air-conditioned “camp cove” in the Ada Lawrence Community Room of the ECAT Wayne Building, home of Erie’s United Way!
WHEN, 1-2:30 p.m. on:
- June 16
- June 23
- June 30
- July 7
- July 14
- July 21
- July 28
- August 4
- August 11
THIS WEEK:
Summer Camp Week #4: Tuesday, July 7th – join us for 90 minutes of non-stop fun for all ages. We have got our “eyes” on some monster-size fun at Camp Cove Lake!
So come on over to The Ada Lawrence Community Room in the ECAT Wayne Building, Home of Erie’s United Way! 650 East Avenue, Erie.
Hope to see you there. Any questions, contact Ms. Trish 814-490-4332!
Please note: this is a family fun experience, so an adult must accompany the children. Please, no large groups, limit 1 adult to 4 children.
Sponsored by United Way of Erie County, Erie Insurance, American Tinning & Galvanizing Company
What is PLAYtime?
PLAYtime uses the arts as a vehicle to make a meaningful connection with the stories from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library with, in and through the use of song, drama, movement, and visual arts, stories come alive and create purposeful shared reading experiences.
Inspiration & Imagination are the recurring themes throughout the three-year cycle of PLAYtime and include:
- love of reading and learning
- regard for diversity of people, their roles, culture, and environment
- promotion of self-esteem and confidence
- appreciation of art and aesthetics as outlined by the Imagination Library
- rhyme and rhythm
- repetition and predictability
- playful sound
- “self-help” activities
- Use of real photo illustration
- nursery rhymes
- colors, letters, numbers
- values and character
- issues—fear, conflict, love, safety
- hero, complication, resolution
- diversity of others—faces, environment
- play, humor, fun
- poetry
- school preparation and readiness
- science—non-fiction
- folk tales
- thank you, appreciation
The PLAYtime Journey
For four years, The Erie Playhouse, with the support of the United Way, has grown this literacy program and is now present in 20 children centers and school classrooms supporting literacy through PLAYtime in our hometown. Over the course of three years, the same child will have spent 144 shared reading experiences with the Imagination Library stories using PLAYtime curriculum lessons. In the past four years over 2,000 children in at-risk settings will have been nurtured by PLAYtime, listening, attending, questioning, and retelling these tales at an increase success rate of 95%. Teachers and facilitators have grown in their storytelling connections by participating in PLAYtime as well.
Workshops for parents and children of the program increase reading at home. On stage, The Erie Playhouse welcomes PLAYtime as they present shows based on the Imagination Library completely free to the community followed by fun activities to engage the whole family!
In addition, facilitators of PLAYtime immerse themselves as partners in the schools and children centers they are connected to, guest appearing at their family game nights, carnivals, red carpet events, and even facilitating at graduations!
PLAYtime is committed to the community creating a truly meaningful relationship with its families.
