I've been teaching lessons for about 10 years, working at summer camps for 5 years, and figured I would check in to see if anyone has any brilliant ideas for a dilemma I'm running into this summer...
We're a small-ish day camp (100 kids in our first session, and peaking out around 150-70 during the middle of the summer) on a small lake. I'm the Waterfront Director, and I've got a great staff, one boating specialist, and at least 4-5 guard with me every day, all day, who teach lessons in the morning (with counselors) and guard free swim in the afternoon.
The issue I'm having is with the numbers of our Kindergarten-Second Grade group, they come down after lunch for an hour and fifteen minutes, so we usually do about 35 minutes of lessons, and they get the rest of the time as free swim - this is their only time at the beach, which is fine.
Next session we've got 60+ kids in this group, and our next few sessions are only getting bigger, and I'm simply running out of space! Our area is about 110ft long, and our shallow end (the "yellow end") gets to about 3 ft, and then goes into our blue end, which goes 3-7 feet deep. I'm simply running out of room on the docks to have as a base for each of the lessons.
So, does anyone have any clever solutions for just being too full with a ton of younger kids? I'm hoping a few will end up in our deeper ends, but I don't want to count on it, and would like to have a plan in place.
Thanks!
