YMCA Y Navigators: Cooking Frenzy

Y Navigator Camp - Offered all summer long:

• Explore and discover hiking, camping, gardens and scavenger hunts
• Music, cooking, and weird science
• Animals, bugs and barns
• Physical fitness and fun with more games than you can imagine
• Our world, the planet, endangered species and the truly weird
• Curriculum based-Arts, character development, fitness, science, and service learning
• Multiple trips weekly to include a weekly trip to an outdoor pool & the library

Y Navigator Camp Trip Schedule is UNDER CONSTRUCTION but you can take a peek at what we have going so far by clicking Y Navigator Draft Trip Schedule (updated 6/2/09)

This program is a flexible 3, 4 or 5 day a week program, available 6:30 am - 6:00 pm and is based at the National Guard Armory. Come one week or come all summer!

Weeks and Weekly themes:

 WeekTheme
June 8- 12Animal Mansions
June 15-19Fear Factor
June 22-26Music Maestros
June 29-July 3Wet n’ Wild
July 6-10Cooking Frenzy
July 13-17Crazy Northfield Bugs
July 20-24Let’s Go Camping
July 27-31Endangered Species
Aug 3-7Weird Science
Aug 10-14Wet n’ Wild
Aug 17-21My Real Life Job
Aug 24-28Global Warming
Aug 31-Sept 4Weird, Wild & Wacky 

Trips: We are already exploring the following trips for this summer’s Y Navigatgor program.  A complete schedule will be made available online once trips are confirmed: Como Zoo, Big Woods, Fort Snelling, Mill City Museum, Rice and Dakota County Fairs, Caron, Albers and Memorial/Mill Parks, Carleton Arboretum, Greenvale, Sibley and Bridgewater nature preserves, Read’s Sheep & Cheese farm, STOGROW, Waterford Farm, Cathy Zemen’s Farm, Community Gardens, Just Food Co-op, Farmer’s Market, Fossil hunting along Dennison Hwy, visit a local chicken farm & horse ranch, a Lynx, Saints, Thunder and Twins game, swimming at the Northfield and Faribault pools, Nelson’s Apple Farm, River Bend and Maltby Nature Centers,

If you have suggestions for enrichment trips for our summer programs, please do not hesitate to contact Virginia Kaczmarek (507-645-0088).

Weekly fees include all field trip admissions, transportation, two snacks a day, before & after care and all program supplies.

Financial Scholarships Available.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and donors, the YMCA will not turn anyone away from its membership or programs because of an inability to pay. Please let us know if we may assist you in this way by calling Virginia directly (507-645-0088) or by completing a Financial Aid form located under the “Membership” tab on our website (www.northfieldymca.org).