Our
first full week at camp was very busy and full of quite a variety of
activities. We spent some time this week making projects for our dads.
Hopefully you all received the delicious chocolate chip cookies that
the kids made and have had time to admire their portraits of you on the
front of their cards. The kids had lots to say about how to best
portray your individual traits in their art.
We also have been busy making the
classroom better reflect our group's personality and have been working
on decorations to bring a summery feel to the room, including life size
drawings of our classmates and beautiful fish and stars which sparkle in
the sun.
Wednesday was a very busy and exciting day. Ming Ming's mom, Isha, came to cook owl cupcakes with us and the
traveling zoo came to school. The traveling zoo included animals as
varied as chinchillas, baby chicks, a sloth, a pig, an anteater, frogs,
and a parrot. We got to feed some of the animals and pet or hold almost
all of them and even saw the owl fly all the way across the big room!
Friday ended with a special Big Guys on the Go trip to the park for
Shabbat.
Big Guys on the Go: Peach Room
This
past week the Big Guys on the Go enjoyed talking about animals that
live on a farm. On Monday we created "muddy" paintings of farm animals
and predicated what animals we would see on the farm. On Tuesday and
Thursday we went swimming at Regents Park. It is amazing to see how
comfortable the campers are becoming in the water. Many kids are now
brave enough to swim on their own with floaties and jump into the pool!
We continue to work on having fun in the water and going under, along
with front floats, back floats, flutter kicking, and the front crawl. On
Wednesday we visited the Children's Farm. We were given a tour of the
farm by farmer, Mary, who told us all about how a farm works. We got to
pet, hold, and learn about many different farm animals, here are some:
chicks, bunnies, ducks, horses, roosters, pigs, goats, cows, donkeys,
and bees. After our tour, we went on a hayride around the farm. Please
look for pictures of our farm experience in the upcoming week! The farm
was so much fun and we look forward to our trip this week to the Apollo
Theater!
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