Nine Weeks, Infinite Discovery: Inside Wayland Montessori's Summer Camp

Summer camp means a lot of things to a lot of families. Extra screen time. Nervous drop-offs. A scramble to fill the weeks between school years. At Wayland Montessori, we wanted to build something different: a summer that feels like a natural extension of everything your child has been growing into all year.

Here is what we built.

A week in the life

Every week at Wayland Summer Camp follows the same gentle rhythm so children know what to expect, and every day brings something new within that structure.

Monday and Wednesday are Water Play days. Children paint with water-based mediums, set up pretend beach scenes, and spend time in the kind of sensory, creative play that every Montessori teacher knows is serious work.

Tuesday and Thursday are our Montessori Practical Life days. Children cook together: banana muffins, rainbow salad, real meals that they help prepare from start to finish. They practice pouring, chopping, mixing, and the quiet pride of feeding themselves and their friends something they made with their own hands.

Fridays are Wild Field Trip Days. We walk. We explore. We show children that their community is a living classroom. The fire station. The police station. The post office. The pharmacy. The town beach. The grocery store. A large public playground that is going to become a favorite fast. Each Friday is its own adventure.

Nine weeks, each with its own story

What makes this summer special is that every week builds on the last. We start with Week 1, Welcome to Summer, giving children time to settle in, find their people, and feel at home. By the end of nine weeks, they will have tie-dyed their own shirts, grown flowers and studied bugs, cooked food inspired by countries around the world, written and mailed real letters, and celebrated everything their bodies can do.

Week 5 is a favorite already: our Community Helpers week, where we are hoping to welcome a real police officer to visit the children. Week 8, Around the World, will coincide with the World Cup, and each day will bring a new country, a new story, and a new dish to share. Week 9, Celebration of Summer, is exactly what it sounds like: picnics, waterplay, and savoring every last moment.

Who camp is for

Wayland Montessori Summer Camp is open to children ages 15 months to 6 years old. You do not need to be an enrolled Wayland family to join us. Families can sign up by the week, by the month, or for the full nine weeks. We designed it that way on purpose: because we know every family's summer looks different, and we want to be a fit for yours.

Camp begins Monday, June 15.

Come spend the summer with us.