Day 7: Dinosaur Heaven!

...And we're back and better than ever! The first day in Catherine Cook's gym was a total success! Drop-off open play was REALLY fun today because of all the new cool toys we had to play with:  hoppers, hoola hoops, and balls.

Everyone did an impressive job singing and dancing during morning circle time -- seems like everyone has learned the motions and lyrics to all of our songs!

Also at morning circle, we talked about our favorite dinosaurs which included Thunder Dinosaur, Horse Dinosaur, Small Dinosaur, and Diplodocus. Then, we heard the story of a plant that was around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth! Before the ice age, this plant grew to be even taller than a T-Rex! Since it was forced to mutate during the ice age, the Dino Plant is small and light. It dries up and blows around in the wind until it lands in a puddle and starts to bloom and grow again. Over the course of the day, the Dino Plant opened its leaves!

When we were done watering our Dino Plant, we climbed ALL of the stairs up to the roof and played games outside! We pretended to be Brachiosaurouses...

 Pteradactyls...

T-Rexes and more!

Then we played Dinotail Tag and had some free play on the playground.

Next was art! We decorated some dinosaurs with silly shapes and colors.

When art was over, it was time to do more moving and singing with Miss Tamara during music! She had us dancing like dinosaurs!

During one part we even joined forces with some of our camp-mates to make our bodies into one BIG dinosaur. Zain and Graham made themselves into a Pterodactyl while Miss Steph's group made themselves into a Stegasaurus and Miss Tamara's group became a T-Rex.

The Bubbles Campers were doing such an excellent job with team work, we decided to do some team relay races with dinosaur eggs (balls). We tried rolling a ball all the way down the line through our legs!

Then we tried doing the "Dinosaur Walk" with eggs between our dinosaur legs!

Before our camp day came to an end, we found the time to build some volcanoes out of Model Magic, color them, then MAKE THEM EXPLODE!!!  Everyone was really impressed with the lava that erupted from the volcanoes -- baking soda and vinegar make A LOT of bubbles!

The camp day came to an end with a closing circle time. We talked about our favorite parts of camp, which included making volcanoes erupt, playing Dinotail Tag on the roof and the art project! Then we said our goodbyes and played until we were picked up. DINO-MITE!

See you tomorrow!
Steph