July 22!

What a wonderful Friday! Today we:

Played soccer (campers vs. teachers -- the teachers lost), Hide and Go Kick The Ball, and Dodge Ball Tag on the rooftop playground!

Then we custom designed our own superheroes/superhero costumes and made model magic volcanoes erupt during art!

 

Before snack, our new friend, Drew, read us a story -- she was an EXCELLENT READER! She made the story fun to hear.

We ate some snack, played for a few minutes then went on a superhero adventure! We learned about fingerprints, used ink and paper to see what our fingerprints looked like, then went on a mission to get Miss Steph's Superhero Certificate back! We figured out who stole the certificate by matching the thief's fingerprints to Miss Steph's little brother. Luckily he had stepped in mud on his way out of Catherine Cook, so we followed his tracks and found Miss Steph's certificate!

 

We celebrated our success by making S'More Pie with graham cracker crumbs, chocolate pudding and marshmallows! 

Then, before we knew it, it was time to sing our goodbyes and go home. 

See you in a week!
Steph

The Lorax, The Lion and The Mouse Day

We had fun stayin' cool today at Bubbles Camp!

We danced and sang our hearts out during morning circle time!

We spent 10 minutes outside playing Wonderball Chase and drinking LOTS of water.

It was TOO HOT to stay out any longer than that, so we went downstairs to make some Popsicles out of fruit juice!

Then we talked about maintaining the health of our natural environment when we read The Lorax.

We ate some snack and then played Freeze Tag and Sharks and Minnows in the gym.

Then it was time to act. We pretended to be all sorts of animals in an adapted version of The Lion And The Mouse.

During art we created a mouse and a lion mask so that we could act out the story at home!

Then we planted seeds to help the environment (just like in The Lorax).

Finally, it was time to eat our now frozen popsicles and share our thoughts about camp. We sang our goodbye song, cleaned up and played until our grown ups came.

Tuesday July 19, 2011

It was a summer-filled day at camp today! We embraced the heat by playing outside, making ice-cold popsicles, and learning about the amazing water cycle.

Enjoying  a cool drink of water outside while singing their own original song! Awesome tunes girls!

Using our creative imaginations to make Open Play a blast! 

 We found this unique knight wizard galloping around Catherine Cook!

The campers were FABULOUS listeners and very interested in the water cycle! There were many steps to our Water Cycle art project and the campers took their time on each specific step! They added cotton ball clouds, the water and land, a bright shining sun and evaporating water. They did a terrific job on their art and it turned out GREAT!

We ended our busy day by eating our homemade popsicles! What a TASTY treat the campers made themselves. They made white grape, apple and cranberry apple popsicles to enjoy on the rooftop. 

What a great day we had!

 

Blog's Back In Action: July 18th!

Tons of positive energy could be felt from the very start of camp today! We started with a spirited morning circle time!

After singing songs and saying our hellos, we went outside to play games like Sharks and Minnows and Hide and Go Seek!

We went downstairs, did an two art projects, ate snack and then trained to be SUPERHEROES!!

As Superheroes, we practiced our morphing powers by changing into different types of animals. Then we went on a mission to bring some lost animals home to their forest. Once we found them, we had to cheer them up by playing a few rounds of team Musical Chairs with the animals on our laps. It was really fun. As chairs were taken away, we all had to pile onto less and less chairs--and help our friends stay on the chairs with us. Though there were was AN OVERLOAD of photo ops, our camera stopped working at this point. The kids did AN EXCELLENT job helping their friends and had a great time dancing to the music.

After Superhero Training, we acted out a book in Drama! The book was all about following our dreams and liking who we are. We talked about what we want to be when we grow up: Ava and Hudson wanted to be surgeons, Gael wanted to be a Superhero, Caitlin wanted to be a Mail Carrier and Lily wanted to be Ariel the Mermaid.

After that, it was time for us to say our goodbyes.

Pics From Last Week!

Our full day and afternoon camps were in session last week, so we had tons of fun ALL DAY EVERY DAY!  Take a look!