From duct tape construction projects to violin lessons, Jane Fodulis said the CARE program at Wareham Middle School is going swimmingly.

CARE stands for Community, Academic, Recreation and Enrichment, and is funded through the national 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant. The annual summer program, which entered its second week Monday, serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, and runs weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fondulis said the program’s target population are students at risk academically, low-income students, and students with disabilities.

Fondulis said the classes are laid out with the more academically-focused classes in the morning, and the personal enrichment classes in the afternoon. The afternoon courses also include a new music class.

“It’s a pilot program called ‘Strings ‘N’ Things,” Fondulis said. “Students learn how to play the violin.”

Though the classes follow a specifically blocked-out schedule, the kids are still given a chance to release residual energy.

“We meet in the morning in the auditorium … and we play music, they do dancing. It’s just sort of a time for them to get excited about the day,” Fondulis said.

Fondulis also said the children do not stay in the building the whole time. She said she makes sure to schedule field trips every Friday for every group of students in the program.

“Every student gets a [YMCA] trip, and I try to give every student one or two field trips somewhere,” Fondulis said. “Today, we had a group that left this morning, and they went to the Harvard Natural History Museum.”

The theme of this year’s program is construction, and every student takes a construction class. The students will be focusing on “the science of duct tape.”

“What they are doing is creating things with duct tape,” Fondulis said. “I think the middle schoolers are looking to build an obstacle course out of duct tape.”