Read Me a Bedtime Story: Cool Camp

Read Me a Bedtime Story

Cool Camp

Jonathan Joy

The Ashland Beacon

Opportunities abound at this year’s Cool Camp.  After school classes at Splendid Elementary will run daily from 2:30 p.m.  to 4:40 p.m. Cool campers choose from a wide range of unique courses not covered by the regular school day curriculum. 

Professor Theo, from nearby Splendid University, is on site Tuesdays and Thursdays to lead students interested in joining the new Cool Camp Superhero Club.  “One lucky student may even become a real-life superhero.”  Professor Theo promised.  Take him at his word.  The Professor’s top-secret lab on the SU campus has long been rumored to be at the heart of the many strange, supernatural happenings in Splendid.  

On Mondays, Mr. Eliot and Miss Kat will set up in the Splendid Elementary School Science Lab to train students interested in learning more about time travel.  According to Mr. Eliot, “The Time Travelling Club will time hop to a different era each week.”  His partner, Miss Kat, emphasized the importance of hands-on learning when it comes to history.  “That’s why we literally take the children back in time, anywhere from the Jurassic period to maybe seeing a play on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.”   

If video gaming is more of your thing, join the Cool Club on Wednesdays.  Camp leaders Tanner and Max, who can quantum leap into any video game, promise a completely immersive experience.  One week, students will blast into a game and combat spaceships.  The next week those same students may be steering cars rapidly around a racetrack or squaring up against streetfighters or space sword battling with dark forces or building lovely words from inside of Minecraft. 

Kid Explorers and a variety of beings from the Don’t Go There Forest will be available Fridays to help students navigate the Don’t Go There Forest portals that mysteriously transport young ones to shadowy otherworld realms.  And also, of course, to remind everyone why you should not go into the Don’t Go There Forest.   

If student demand is high, additional programs will be added.  Saint Nick Squad elves have expressed interest in sharing North Pole spy techniques and Barnum, the detective dog, along with Kid Detectives Jen, Ben, and Red want to establish an organization for future crime solvers.  You may even have the opportunity to blast into outer space with space ranger Cletus Cavalier and the young Kid Space Force. 

Interested students should contact new Cool Camp coordinators Turk and Pork Chop for information regarding sign ups and for the extensive liability paperwork parents will need to sign.

Spread the word, prospective Cool Campers!  See you in 2025.