Never Enough Time

If you could change one thing about SuperKids Camp what would it be and how would you change it?

It's crazy. I know it's a summer camp and I know that we're only supposed to be refreshing and refining these kids' reading and math skills. But, despite knowing this, if I could change anything about SuperKids, it would be to have more time with the kids to go over the lessons and really break down the material in depth with them. I'm only alotted 45 minutes for reading instruction and 30 for math, but it never seems to be enough to really make the material fun and interesting. Too often for me, it feels like I'm giving the kids summer school and not camp.

I feel like if I had more time -- enrichments once a week or every other day -- I could fully engage the children in the lesson. I could give the children the time they want on the playground, play "Big Wind Blows", or even "Around the World" and the spelling games I created for them without feeling like I have to truncate my lesson or their reading time to do so. I think that's what I would change, cutting back on the enrichment time so I could spend just a little more time with my kids and actually feel that they are making progress because of what I'm doing with them.