MMS Summer Camp Week 3 Newsletter

Millhopper Montessori School Week 3: June 27th – July 1st

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Summer Camps 1 Mad Scientist 2 Club Sport 2 Under The Sea 3 All The World‟s A Zoo 3 Splash Bash 4 Junior Counselors 4 Reminders for Next Week 4

Millhopper Montessori School, LLC President: Christina Miller Administrator: Amilda Clark Newsletter Created by: Tiffany Milian, 7th grade Photographer: Alyssa Hanley, 7th grade Contributing Writers: Ms. Elizabeth Falls Ms. Crystal Sorrow Coach Cam Parker Ms. Nia Haynes Ms. Erin Sorel Mr. Richard Aslanian

Summer Enrichment Camps 2011 This week has been filled with many fun activities.

The Mad Scientist Summer Camp utilized the Scientific Method on their experiments and had so much fun. The All the World’s a Zoo Camp has been playing games, learning about all different types of animals, and enjoyed their trip to the Santa Fe College Zoo. Club Sport Camp had a fun time playing all several types of “club” sports. The Under the Sea Camp dove into the all that is the sea. Check inside for more details!

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The Mad Scientists try to get a piece of ice out of a cup with only a miniature lasso.

Mad Scientist!!!

It was all about physical science, chemistry, simple machines, the human body, the scientific method, and more. Each day they did lots of fun experiments such as building a gumdrop dome , making glow in the dark silly putty, elephant toothpaste, and separating the fat from milk. Earlier in the week they tried to figure out the basic parts of taste. Their discussion of solids, gases, and liquids led them to see how dry ice works. Mr. Richard commented saying that “We let the children explore the properties of science themselves.” All the students had a lot of fun. At the end of this week I believe all the campers are officially MAD SCIENTISTS!!!!

Mr. Richard helps a student.

Sofia just finished the taste test. It doesn’t look like she liked what she tasted.

Club Sports

Golfing, Lacrosse, Dodge Ball, Hockey and Tennis kept the Club Sport campers busy this week.

Each day consisted of skill drills, golf competitions, lacrosse and dodgeball games and more! The rain did not stop the campers, as they stayed indoors and created power points, and also learned about Wimbledon and made their own predictions after researching all the stats.

Wow! That’ s’ a lot of fo am! In this experimen t the stude nts had to make - wh at is called Elephant Toothpaste .

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THE SEA Ms. Crystal

This week, the campers traveled to the sea! They learned about all different kinds of sea creatures. The children especially found the sea animals from the deep very interesting; giant squid and the viper fish! Since Monday is July 4th, the children also made Fourth of July necklaces, made firework prints and painted “flag” hearts. The children are looking forward to the next two weeks : Ms. PIRATES Liz

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ALL THE WORLD’S A Exploring animals in their natural habitats, what they need to survive, how they grow and adapt to their environments are a few of the many topics discussed this week during All the World‟s a Zoo Camp. The students simulated many games that taught them how animals live. On Thursday they went to the SFC Zoo. A student in the camp stated “ My favorite part of the camp was going to see the zoo and seeing all the pretty peacocks.”

Our Under the Sea studies took us to various oceans where we learned all animals that live in those oceans.

Shells were abundant in the classroom as well as fish objects and objects of ocean mammals. There were ocean animal puppets, ocean felt board work, ocean animal books, and more. The students made mobiles, and did seahorse art scratchings.

They also painted an expandable top hat for July 4th and also the campers sang Yankee Doodle Dandy/You‟re a Grand Old Flag, This Land is Your Land, and America, My Country Tis of Thee in celebration of the holiday Fourth of July Holiday.

Splash Bash!!

Reminders for Week 4: July 5th - July 8th No Summer Camp on Monday.

Happy 4th of July!!

Make sure you order lunches!

Tuesday/Beef „O Brady‟s Wednesday/Moe‟s Thursday/Heavenly Ham Friday/Schlotzky‟s

Invention/Animation Camp Recycled Arts and Crafts Junior Counselor Ahoy Pirates!

Junior Counselors Caryss dissecting an owl pellet.

Thursday, July 7th-Dress up day for Beginner and Pre/K Theme: Ahoy Pirates!

Splash Bash is Friday Wear your bathing suit and bring a towel Please apply sunscreen at home

Tiffany working on the newsletter.

Alyssa helping a student with learning the five senses.