Camps

Full immersion French camps are a great way to keep your kids active and up to speed in the language practice over the summer, spring or fall, or just for one day! Specialized instructors provide campers with a continuous mix of games, activities and projects designed to build vocabulary and conversational ability.

Our Camps are open to children ages 5 to 11, from beginner to bilingual. Campers are divided into 2 or 3 groups according to their level.

Lunches are not provided.

All camps - day or week-long - have the same schedule:

A typical day for a camper age 5 to 11:

• 8:30-9:00am: Before-care (free)
• 9:00-9:15am: Calendar, Song, Schedule
• 9:15-10:30am: Class
• 10:30-11:00am: Snack
• 11:00-12:15pm: Park
• 12:15-1:30pm: Lunch
• 1:30-2:00pm: Story Time, Quiet Activities
• 2:00-3:15pm: Class
• 3:15-3:30pm: Review of the Day
• 3:30-5:30pm: Aftercare (at extra cost)

Upcoming Day Camps

• Jan. 17: DLes P'tits paysagistes avec Anne-Tu

  Jan. 17: Les P'tits paysagistes with Anne-Tulin

  • Start: 8:30am, End: 3:30pm
  • Day Camps are in French, but are open to children at every level of French language learning. 
  • Open to kids & teens ages 5-11
  • Aftercare available for $25 from 3:30pm-5:30pm
  • Click here to register!
• Jan.27: Initiation Judo avec Frédéric

  Jan.27: Initiation Judo with Frédéric

  • Start: 8:30am, End: 3:30pm
  • Day Camps are in French, but are open to children at every level of French language learning. 
  • Open to kids & teens ages 5-11
  • Aftercare available for $25 from 3:30pm-5:30pm
  • Click here to register!
• Jan. 28: Ballet avec Julia

  Jan. 28: Ballet with Julia

  • Start: 8:30am, End: 3:30pm
  • Day Camps are in French, but are open to children at every level of French language learning. 
  • Open to kids & teens ages 5-11
  • Aftercare available for $25 from 3:30pm-5:30pm
  • Click here to register!
• March 20: Les P'tits Pirates avec Julie

  March 20: Les P'tits Pirates with Julie

  • Start: 8:30am, End: 3:30pm
  • Day Camps are in French, but are open to children at every level of French language learning. 
  • Open to kids ages 5-11
  • Aftercare available for $25 from 3:30pm-5:30pm
  • Click here to register!

Upcoming Week-Long Camps

The Alliance Française will offer 7 weeks of Summer Camps from June 29 until August 14, 2020. 
Please click here for more information.

Camp Excursions

Camp excursions make it fun!

During weekly camps only, the Alliance Francaise take the children out on a trip related to the week's topic. In the past four years, children went to:

• Brookside Garden
• Fresh Baguette
• Kids Museum
• Glen Echo Park
• AFI Theater
• Hillwood Museum
• Japan information and Culture Center
• Montgomery County Recycling Center
• Shakespeare Theater
• Spark! Lab
• Avalon Theater
• National Building Museum
• the Kitchen at the French Embassy
• American University's beehives
• NASA Goddard Visitor Center
• Nationals Ball Park

Our weekly camps often offer an initiation to Judo. This martial art focuses on the various basic techniques of Judo. Respect, self-control, courtesy, balance, discipline and coordination are important values and principles when you practice Judo. Children will learn about Judo with different games and activities like drawing, reading, geography, French and Japanese. And they will meet with Joe, the foam training dummy! No uniform required.