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Fairfax County Offers Summer Activities and Classes for Kids
It's not too late to sign up for summer activities for the kids.
The dog days of summer are here. Summer sports teams are wrapping up, and the start of school is still weeks away. What to do with your kids and teens?
Fairfax County still has tons of options to fill their days. Here, Patch highlights some of the county’s late-summer offerings for elementary, middle and high schoolers.
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Fairfax County enrichment programs keep kids’ minds churning throughout the summer. Courses for elementary students include FLEX language camps, fitness, robotics, arts, creative writing, science and more. From Aug. 8 to 12, for example, first- through sixth-graders can attend an Arabic language camp at Haycock Elementary School.
Offerings for secondary students include language mania, study skills, test prep courses and driver education. Classes include the Young Writer's Workshop for sixth- to eighth-graders during the week of Aug. 15 at the Plum Center in Springfield.
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High schoolers can also sign up for a 36-hour Classroom Driver’s Education course. From July 25 to Aug. 9, this class will be offered at McLean High School. Follow this class up with behind-the-wheel training at McLean High School the week of Aug. 18, and your teen will be fully ready for the DMV road test.
The tuition of the above varies by class.
Booster Clubs, PTA, and PTO-Sponsored Camps, Courses, and Programs
The FCPS Community Use website compiles the list of camps, courses and programs scheduled by Parent Teacher Associations. Each is held in an FCPS school. Example: PTA sponsored Camp Invention at Waynewood Elementary beginning Aug. 1 for grades 1-6. For more info email Margaret Prater.
The Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services organizes and runs this drop-in recreation program for children in grades one through six. The program runs daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Sept. 2. You may register for any combination of weeks. The cost is $70 a week per child with seven locations in Falls Church, Reston, Alexandria and Fairfax.
