2012 Summer Camp Week Three

Summer Camp Week III

June 25 - 29, 2012

Newsletter by: Caryss Baldwin, 7th Grade and Lydia Black, 7th Grade

In this issue: Basketball with Coach Cam and Ms. Sam

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Fairy Tales: Beginners with Ms. Crystal, Ms. Amy, and Ms. Christina

2

3

Back to Bedrock: Preschool and Kindergarten with Ms. Liz and Ms. Widline 4 Mad Scientists with Mr. Richard and Ms. Susan

Next week: Invention/ Animation with Mr. Richard, Ms. Susan and Ms. Sylvia

every Friday

Spanish with Ms. JeanneMarie Ahoy Pirates!

Beginners, Preschool,

with Coach Cam and Ms. Sam

The students are playing table basketball.

Lucas shoots the ball, is he going to make it?

Will Lucas be able to block Andrew?

3…2…1…

Royce and Andrew playing Bump.

The week was speci ically

Bzzzzzzzzzzz. In this

scheduled to coincide

hooptastic week we

with the NBA draft.

played a cornucopia of

Campers learned about

basketball related games draft prospects and made to improve each camper’s predictions for the actual

Lucas and Andrew on a team for bump.

all‐around game. Each

draft with prizes for the

day consisted of skill

best prognosticator. It

drills, mini‐games, full

was a great week in our

court basketball and

own little hoops heaven.

more. Inside we played

We hope to see you in

trivia and table games,

week ive for baseball

and even made

week!

basketball themed crafts.

This week we enjoyed Fairy Tale themed work and activities. The students enjoyed dress-up clothes, felt boards with fairies and other story characters, themed lacing works, coloring sheets, and more. The castle with figures for imaginative play and the puppet theatre with fairy, witch, wizard, and queen puppets were both big hits. Students performed their own shows for their classmates at the puppet theatre window. The students enjoyed Ms. Crystal telling the story of the Three Little Pigs with a story glove. Just ask your child and I'm sure he or she will "huff and puff and blow your house down." Students made fairy wands and dragons with

help from our two junior camp counselors and created sticker scenes. We sang each day and had Spanish three days with Ms. Jeanne-Marie. Several days this week the students enjoyed playing musical instruments and having bean-bag coordination activities.

Dress-up day was enjoyed by all, and we had an abundance of characters.

Splash day has been going swimmingly. Students have enjoyed the small pool, sprinklers, and the water slide.

The water slide is a big thrill that some children enjoy going down repeatedly where as some students brave it for the single trip and feel very accomplished. Thank you for being at Summer camp this week.

Dear Parents, We have been having a great time at Summer Camp! This week we traveled back in time to the land of dinosaurs!

Geography and Science

Students playing with a princess castle.

Students coloring magic wands.

dinosaurs and making dinosaur gliders and dinosaur stenciling.

Some of the songs we sang this week: “Puff the Magic Dragon, “Alligator Stomp” and some old favorites; “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “I’m a Little Teapot”.

Next week’s theme is “Ahoy Pirates”!

The children learned about Pangaea (plate tectonics – continental drift) and the difference between omnivore, Sincerely, carnivore and herbivore dinosaurs. We specifically talked about the Triceratops, Hadrosaurs (duck-billed), Tyranno- Ms. Elizabeth and Ms. Widline saurus Rex, Velociraptors, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Brachiosaurus dinosaurs.

On Wednesday, the children enjoyed watching the movie, The Land Before Time.

Spanish The children learned (in Spanish) about the different characteristics of dinosaurs as well as the different theories of how they became extinct.

Line Time and Art Activities: The children enjoyed playing dinosaur bingo, push-pinning

The students put on different dinosaur heads.

“elephant’s toothpaste”, creating stomp rockets and mixing many household items to create fun experiments. We would like to thank Melissa and Ta-shun This week in Science Camp for helping us this week and for conducting the lesson on electricity. We we have spent time learning about several different branches of science . hope we have furthered a love for the science world .

We discussed the steps of the Scientific Method and learned about some important people in the world of science. The students enjoyed making glow in the dark polymers (GAK), practicing with levers and pulleys in physical science, making

Ava and Lydia helping the students with their dragons.

Royce teaching DongHyun how to play penny basketball.

Caryss helping Ms. Amy get balls out of the water sprayer on splash day.

Catherine reading a dinosaur book to the class.

Missy and Ta -Shun helping students do experiments.