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Camp READY! prepares rising and repeating kindergartners for academic success through hands-on, experiential learning centers (art, music & movement, cooking and reading-readiness) to build pre-reading skills while continuing motor, social and cognitive development. $25 per 4 week session.
Camp READY!+ prepares students for the first-grade level focusing on concept and confidence while reteaching and reviewing vocabulary, reading, and math sense. $25 per 4 week session.
Camp READY! Special Friends provides readiness skills for our friends with special needs.
Four weeks during the summer – Check website for 2023 Dates + Locations
Students entering or repeating Kindergarten or 1st Grade. Eligible students must be five years old by September 1, 2023.
Approximately 8am – 12pm, check website for specific times for each location
203 Ave R NE, Winter Haven, FL 33881, USA
115 S Oak Ave, Fort Meade, FL 33841, USA
902 Lily Ave, Haines City, FL 33844, USA
1225 E Lime St, Lakeland, FL 33801, USA
4815 Bailey Rd, Mulberry, FL 33860, USA
Learning Resource Center offers both an ACT Preparation Course and SAT Preparation Course to assist students who are preparing to take the ACT or SAT. These courses build confident successful students through an efficient and effective 1-week, 23-hour course by engaging in problem-solving strategies for analyzing and answering test questions, reinforcing skills through interaction and review, and building confidence while reducing test anxiety through test-taking strategies.
These are two different courses with separate registration required for each one.
ACT Preparation Course: June 19 – 22, 2023
SAT Preparation Course: July 17 – 20, 2023
9th – 12th Grade
Vary by subject – check website
Summer Coding Workshop – LRC’s Summer Video Game Design & Coding Workshop is led by a STEM educator to help students discover the fundamentals of code in an exciting and productive learning domain. For rising 6th and 7th grades (completed 5th or 6th grade).
LRC Mid Math Camp – The Learning Resource Center’s Mid Math Camp will aid students who have fallen behind in math due to the effects of COVID, virtual schooling, or other reasons and will reinforce important skills specific to grade-level math topics in middle school. For Students entering 7th-9th grade or repeating 6th-8th grade.
Study Habits of Successful Students – The Learning Resource Center’s Study Habits of Successful students is designed to build confident, successful students through-time tested best practices. This interactive study skills program helps motivate and prepare middle school students to become effective learners in school and beyond. For rising 6th-8th grade students.
*Fee reduction available based on family income. Please ask about LRC’s Sliding Fee Scale or scholarships for deserving students in need.
Vary by Camp – Check description
Entering 6th – 9th Grade – Check description for ages for each camp
Vary by camp
Super Summer Success builds confident, successful students through time-tested best practices. Students will focus on academics by participating in high-interest, hands-on lessons while exploring math through writing and drawing, engaging in creative art projects, sharing in read-and-respond projects on key ideas, reinforcing skills through interaction and review, and savoring brain-healthy snacks to keep energy up.
*Fee reduction available based on family income. Please ask about LRC’s Sliding Fee Scale or scholarships for deserving students in need.
June 19 – July 13, 2023
Completed K – 5th Grade
Monday – Thursday from 1 – 4 pm
June 5-30, 2023 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week
5 – 17
9am – 2pm
July 10-July 13 and July 17-July 20, 2023 (Monday-Thursday)
4th-12th grade
9am-12pm
June 5 – July 28, 2023
Ages 6 – 18
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
950 Pinewood Ave, Lakeland, FL 33815, USA
920 Lowry Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801, USA
2400 Havendale Blvd, Winter Haven, FL 33881, USA
305 NE 1st Ave, Mulberry, FL 33860, USA
704 Ave C, Haines City, FL 33844, USA
1869 E Gibbons St, Bartow, FL 33830, USA
July 24-28, 2023
This camp is for students who have completed second through fifth grade.
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
July 5-July 27, 2023
Students entering or repeating Kindergarten or 1st Grade
Mon-Thurs – 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
May 28 – August 9, 2023
6+
7am – 6:30 pm
Full Summer
5 & up
7am – 6pm
5285 Florida Ave S, Lakeland, FL 33813, USA
622 Ave O SW, Winter Haven, FL 33880, USA
June 5 – July 28, 2023
2nd – 6th grade
8am – 5pm
June 5 – July 28, 2023
Ages 6-15 – must have completed Kindergarten
7:30 am to 5:30 pm
301 N Dort St, Plant City, FL 33563, USA
June 5 – 9, 2023
15 – 18 as of first day of camp
8am-5pm, Monday – Thursday / 8am-2pm on Friday
June 5 – 30 and July 3 – 28, 2023
6 – 13
Check with camp
June 5 – July 27 (no camp 6/12-6/16)
Kindergarten through Second Grade Reading Levels. Ages 5-9
12:30 – 3:30pm
June 5th- June 16th
5-18
8:30-3:00
July 17 – 21, 2023
High School Students through Professionals (minimum age 14)
9am – 5pm – on-campus housing is available
2023 – June 12-15, 26-29, July 10-13, 24-27 (Mon-Thur)
Age 3 & Up
9am – 12pm
June 5 – Aug 4, 2023
7 – 17
8:30am – 12pm
Multiple sessions all summer – visit https://lakelandmom.com/event/kids-sewing-camp-lakeland-library/ or https://lakelandmom.com/event/kids-sewing-camp-jackson-branch-library-lakeland/ for full dates/times.
9-13 (plus one week for teens ages 13-17)
Vary by week – 10-11:30am or 2-3:30pm
1700 N Florida Ave, Lakeland, FL 33805, USA
2023 TBD
Entering Kindergarten – 8th Grade
Monday – Friday, 7am to 6pm
June 19 – August 4 – Weekly
6 – 16
8:00AM – 3:00PM
July 17-20 or July 24-27, 2023
7-18
9am – 12pm
Weekly Sessions – June 5 – July 13, 2023
7-18
9 am – 12 pm
TBD
13 – 17
8am – 4pm
July 10-13, 2023
Ages 6 – 13
Monday-Wednesday: 9AM- 2PM; Thursday: 9AM-Noon
June 25 – July 1, 2023
Ages 7 to 17 years old – Deaf and Hard of Hearing children, their hearing siblings, and children of Deaf adults
Overnight
July 28-29, 2023
11 – 18
8a – 5p
Summer 2023
Ages 5 – 15
Check with camp