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 Camps

• October 25: Ballet avec Julia

  Octobre 25: 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 ages 5-11
  • Aftercare available for $25 from 3:30pm-5:30pm
  • Click here to register!
• October 26: Les P'tits Gourmands avec Asmae

  October 26: Les P'tits Gourmands avec Asmae

  • 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!
• Nov. 6: Les P'tits Teinturiers avec Nabiha

  November 6: Les P'tits teinturiers avec Nabiha

  • 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!
• November 12: Judo with Frédéric

  November 12: 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!

Camp Excursions

Camp excursions make it fun!

During weekly camps only (spring, summer and fall), the Alliance Française takes the children out on a trip related to the week's topic. In the past three years, children went to:

• Brookside Gardens
• Japan Information and Culture Center
• The City Blossoms Community Garden
• Montgomery County Recycling Center
• Fresh Baguette
• Hillwood Museum
• Shakespeare Theater
• Spark! Lab
• Avalon Theater
• National Building Museum
• the kitchen of 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.