First Day of Camp!

The first day of Bubbles Academy Summer Camp was a great success! Everyone seemed to agree with Gabriel when he said, "This is a really good school." We had plenty of space to run, sing, play and imagine together all day long!

Camp started with a bang as we pretended to blow and pop balloons during a high-energy circle time.  All of the campers took turns talking about their favorite bugs and then learned the signs to the song, "The More We Get Together." Then we jumped (literally) to art!

During art, we all collaborated to make a really long Hungry Caterpillar out of crayons and watercolor paints as well as some buzzing bumble bees!

Next was Yoga! There, we learned the song Bubbles Yoginis sing to get into half lotus pose and then we sang it in some silly voices; Graham got everyone to sing like fire breathing dragons and Gabe got everyone to sing like roaring dinosaurs. Then we met 14 different animals and did the poses named after each of them. We roared like lions, flew like a birds, hopped like frogs and stomped like elephants!

During Snack, we read Leonardo The Terrible Monster and made faces to reflect how Leonardo was feeling during each part of the book. Ben (also known as Batman for the day) was especially good at making scary faces and led the rest of the campers in some big, brave monster roars.

We all took turns going to the bathroom during snack time, and, for some of us, even THAT was an adventure to remember: Joey and Brooks were amazed by the automatic sinks and impressed by the seemingly magic hand dryers!

Once the campers' tummies were full and their bodies were re-energized, we got suited up and climbed into our inflatable spaceship (AKA a parachute), climbed through some space wormholes (tunnels) and went searching for shooting stars that had magical powers. Our magic stars made us run REALLY fast and we showed off our speed by running around Catherine Cook's blue track! When were done being speedy, we used our magic stars to turn us into aliens, then made some alien stew. Everyone had a turn to add a silly ingredient; we added moon rocks, frogs, cranberries, and to top it all off, Quinn added a handful of sparkles. Mwah! Magnifico!

The track had been SO much fun, Joey made a special request to do one more run around, so we all went for one more sprint!

After getting a really good workout, we went to science where we made our own greenhouses! We talked about how the water and heat from the sun gets trapped inside the plastic bag of the greenhouse. Once we add water and close the bag, all we need to do is leave the greenhouse by a sunny window and our seeds will start to grow into beautiful flowers.

During our goodbye circle, we each shared our favorite part of camp. Popular favorites were: running around the track, going up in a spaceship and planting seeds! All in all, it was an excellent first day.  Each of us went home new memories of exciting activities as well as some very fun new friends.

Bubble-Bye until tomorrow!

Steph