Harpursville students participate in summer enrichment program

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Harpursville Central School District’s four-week summer enrichment program keeps students active and learning throughout the summer months.

The program caters to kids from grades kindergarten through 6th grade.

Every year, the entire summer camp reads a book together for its literacy program, and offers different activities based on the theme of the book. This year, the students are reading a book titled, “The Wild Robot Escapes,” the sequel to “The Wild Robot” which they read last year.

The students learn through hands on activities including playing with snap circuit boards, chess, arts and crafts, and what’s a summer camp without swimming?

The coordinator of the program, Kim Rusnak, says the kids love this year’s book, and get more excited for activities when they can relate it back to the story.

“We try to weave that throughout the curriculum and the different components of our enrichment program. So, we have STEM obviously with robotics, we have literacy, we have chess this year, which is teaching the kids to use thinking skills like the robot Roz does in the book. We have social/emotional learning and teamwork as well, which is all incorporated in the read,” said Rusnak.

The camp meets four days a week, provides two meals a day, and runs for four weeks.

Rusnak says this year, there’s about 200 kids in the program, which is a lot of students for the size of the district.

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