Mountain Lake park
Tree Frog Treks is back for another summer of Wild Science at Mountain Lake Park with Full-Day Camps available! During each camp session, campers will meet live animals, perform fun experiments and build connections and critical thinking skills through adventuring in nature with peers and instructors. Come meet Blondie the Burmese Python, Trucker the Tortoise, Watermelon the Asian Water Dragon, and Jumpy the White’s Tree Frog - to name some of our nearly 100 Animal Ambassadors! We play games and tell stories to bring many unseen aspects of our urban habitats to life for our campers. We Wander and Wonder Together!
Summer 2024 Camp Themes
Four Eyed Frogs
Hindsight X2! Looking towards a more beautiful world for me and you!
Evolution Revolution! Flipping stones and analyzing bones, biologists seek answers from all the biomes. In search of ecotones, we’ll visit forests, grasslands and tidal zones to uncover amazing innovations made by nature to survive and adapt to changing habitats. As animals, we too are in need of solutions, and looking to the past to help us today will fuel the evolution revolution. Get on the bus and learn what we must, to protect biodiversity. All of earth’s organisms can add to the story.
Potions in Motion! There’s Magic in the mysteries of chemistry! From color range to phase change, potions in motion will be a wild ride and a deep dive. We’ll make a splash around town and drop eggs to the ground. This is a session to experiment with slime and get icky sticky with gak; to mix and match kitchen safe chemistry and watch it go splat. Imagination and play make for great summer days, zooming on brooms and observing cocoons. Tree Froggers know how to find magic in nature, and owls in the trees, and do experiments with temperature measuring each degree.
Survivor FROG! Far Reaching, Outrageous & Green! Learning from nature how to survive and thrive, Tree Froggers rise to the occasion. We’ll explore nature in the city and learn which plants we can eat, where other animals sleep, and how far we can leap. Frogs and toads are prey animals with adaptations to survive. An ecosystem with lots of frogs is healthy and alive. This session, our goal is to be bold, grow our community, and go with the flow. SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW SO THE WORLD CAN GROW!
Biodiversity Bonanza! Water and Light make life possible down here on our planet’s surface. From deep seas to the tops of the tallest tree canopies, the study of life is called biology. Why are there so many species? To answer that we need our thinking caps, we’ll look high and low through all the biomes. During this session of San Francisco summer science, we’ll strive to uncover some of the secrets of ecosystems. How can so many organisms live in them. Our bodies need proteins, carbohydrates and sugars to give us the energy to run, while plants get theirs from the sun. Beautiful biodiversity supports the needs of all living things under our atmosphere, it’s a bonanza out there and there’s nothing to fear!
Carbon Kids! Calling all Carbon Kids! We’ll use our powers to unite the world in imagining a fossil-fuel-free-future! Imagination and Innovation during a San Francisco Play-cation! Looking high and low for where energy comes from and where it goes, from ATP made in our cells to fuels that propel rockets themselves. This is a session to completely compost old ideas about carbon, plant a tree, collect energy from the sun and work together to Save, Preserve, and Maintain our home!
Mountain Lake camps run from from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, for rising 1st - 6th graders.
AM Care and PM Care are not being offered at Mountain Lake park.
Full day camp summer 2024 dates:
Block A1: June 10th - June 14th Evolution Revolution pt. 1
Block A2: June 17th - June 21st Evolution Revolution pt. 2
Block B1: June 24th - June 28th Potions & Motions pt. 1
Block B2: July 1st - July 3rd **3 day session Potions & Motions pt. 2
Block C1: July 8th - July 12th Survivor Frog pt. 1
Block C2: July 15th - July 19th Survivor Frog pt. 2
Block D1: July 22nd - July 26th Biodiversity Bonanza pt. 1
Block D2: July 29th - August 2nd Biodiversity Bonanza pt. 2
Block E1: August 5th - August 9th Carbon Kids pt. 1
Block E2: August 12th - August 16th Carbon Kids pt. 2
Register
Rates:
FULL DAY camp rate per week: $730
Pro-rated rates for sessions with holidays.
Sibling discounts and multi-session discounts available.
For 2024 Summer Camp Sessions our cancellation REFUND policy is as follows:
Cancel on or prior to 6/3: Refund or credit issued less 10% cancellation fee
Cancel by 6/10: Refund issued less 50% cancellation fee, or credit less 10% fee
Cancel after 6/10: Camp fees are non-refundable, no exceptions. Funds held on credit less 10% admin fee only if we can find a replacement for your spot
We ask that families who decide to cancel their registrations for camp consider holding their fees as a credit if at all possible. Tree Frog Treks depends on the income from camp to operate all year and provide our staff a living wage, and operate our amphibian and reptile rescue center. Credits do not expire and can be used toward any program in the future for any member of your family.
It is always free to switch your Block to another Block that works better for your schedule (as long as there is space in the Block you'd like to switch to). Please email our office at Info@Treefrogtreks.com to make a switch to your week, but last minute switches are highly discouraged.
Location: Mountain lake park
1 10th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
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