Orono Community Education

Playing games engages your mind and inspires ideas. You will design your own board game and play each game to get feedback on what is great and ways to improve. Take home your own unique board game!

Get ready for creative storytelling! Wordless books build important literacy skills. By looking at the characters and their actions, you can create stories in their own words. Work on summarizing, making inferences and descriptive writing. A picture really is worth a thousand words.

Catch the math bug! Investigate math by learning about size, quantities, patterns and more. We’ll even create our own math bugs. This is a fun way to exercise math skills and discover a few new bugs at the same time.

Grades 2 - 8 Enjoy the wave pool and the water slides. Bring a bag lunch. Students may also bring money for a treat at the concession stand if they wish. Friday, June 28 Rainbow Park Leave - 9:45 am Return - 4:00 pm Holbrook Park Leave - 10:05 am Return - 4:20 pm Important Field Trip Information Departure locations: Rainbow Park, 1500 Rainbow Avenue, Maple Plain Holbrook Park, 310 Harrington Drive, Long Lake * Trips are chaperoned by playground program staff with a ratio of 6:1 or less. * No refunds will be given on the day of the trip or after the trip has occurred. * In case of inclement weather, we will notify you if the trip has been cancelled. * Lunch - details listed with each trip destination. * Bus departure times are exact...BE EARLY! * REGISTRATION DEADLINE is Monday the week of the trip. Registrations will NOT be taken at the bus departure locations. * Trip Appropriate Attire & Planning: No flip flops on walking/amusement park trips. Swimsuit, towel and water bottle required for swimming trips. Apply sunscreen before leaving home and send extra. Each child is responsible for all personal belongings.

Explore your feelings in this interactive camp designed to help students learn about, manage, and identify emotions. Students will engage in skill and community building, movement activities, and art to increase their emotional vocabulary and coping skills.