This week we will be working on a day-time landscape and learning about even more animals!
This session, the art and nature campers explored the Wonders of the Creatures of the Wind. Last week we read stories that featured bats and owls! We used fun art techniques (including cutting and color-blending), and surprising materials (like coffee filters) to create our own bats and owls. The preschool class learned so many interesting facts about these animals, including that they are nocturnal. The preschoolers did a special collaborative project to create a landscape for the bats and owls in our classroom. We took giant pieces of paper outside and blended together black, purple, and blue paint to create a nighttime sky that was inspired by the illustrations from the story Owl Sees Owl. This painting was hung up in the classroom the next day, and our preschoolers used gold tissue paper and glitter to add stars and a moon to our night sky. We can’t wait to hang up our finished art projects in our nighttime landscape! This week we will be working on a day-time landscape and learning about even more animals!
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Color Wheel Spinners:
Inspired by the movement of the wind, the toddlers had the opportunity to express their creativity while decorating their very own color wheel spinners. Some students chose to blend the paint to create new colors, while others chose to dot their spinners in different colors with the hope of seeing the colors blend while the spinners spin. The final product will be a mesmerizing spinner that students can play with. Do you know the difference between a chickadee and a tufted titmouse?
Grades 1 and 2 campers are exploring the world of birds this week at camp. On our bird walks around campus we have found some baby birds, feathers, nests, and even some footprints. We are learning to recognize some bird songs, and we have even worked on drawing birds. We are keeping track of what we have seen in our bird books. In the days to come, we will get our hands dirty as we start to focus on bugs. We’ll be hunting, collecting, and making some buggy crafts. Our Curiosity Campers enjoyed a fun afternoon cooling off at 5 Star Swim in Princeton!
Session 2: Grades 3-5
It has been exciting to see how quickly the children have learned some of the basics of computer coding. We have explored some of the features of Scratch, and we have shared some of our designs with our partner school in Rwanda. We have also made videos about ourselves sharing about our lives in the U.S. We have enjoyed watching the videos that our Rwandan partners have made for us, and we are learning a bit about their culture and what their daily lives are like. We spent a bit of time learning about renewable resources and how we use them here and in Rwanda. This week we will work on designing a video game that involves racing solar powered cars. Then we will share our games with the students in Rwanda, and hopefully we can learn from their designs as well. Session 2: Grades 1-2
We’ve been hard at work in Storybook Engineering camp. Along with our partner school in Rwanda, we’ve been reading, designing, and building. We designed and built bridges to go along with The Rainbow Bridge by Audrey Wood, castles to go along with a Lithuanian legend called Jurate and Kastytis, and zip line gondolas for the book The Race of Toad and Deer by Pat Mora and Domi. This week we are learning about the child engineer from Malawi named William Kamkwamba. We started designing and building windmills. While the children are finding designing windmills to be quite challenging, they are excited and up to the challenge. We hope to see you all at our showcase on Friday where the children will be able to display their designs. Our Art and Nature Campers had their cooking special today. We made Animal Toast! The campers choose what animals they wanted to make and decorated their cream cheese and toast with fruit! It was really yummy!
Our littlest campers enjoyed exploring the PJS grounds. They collected various items and used them for their Nature Looms. Their looms turned out beautiful!
ART and NATURE Campers: We were all excited to have waterplay today! We had a wonderful time playing in the pools, running through the sprinkler, and washing all the trucks! Enjoy a few photos of our waterplay fun below.
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