Summer Camp Newsletters

Welcome to "Art and Imagination" week! This week, we learned about famous artists, including Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Wu Guanzhong, and Piet Mondrian, and explored different art techniques, materials, and styles. We got our hands messy with colorful puffy paint, designed a collaborative classroom mural, and experimented with abstract expressionism. For our cooking activity, we made our own wraps with chicken, cheese, spinach, and kidney beans.

This week, we learned about famous inventions and expanded our creativity and problem-solving skills through crafts like pendulum paintings, umbrellas, catapults, collages, and mazes. We also explored how ornaments can be made using natural materials like mugwort and paper, blending them into a pulp and molding it into shapes. For our cooking activity, we made sandwiches with ham, lettuce, cheese, and tomato to take home and enjoy.

Welcome to our week of learning about "Things That Fly!" This week, we explored various vehicles that travel through the sky, as well as living creatures that fly, including birds, butterflies, and dragonflies. We crafted our own paper airplanes, helicopters, and kites, and made colorful butterfly collages, craft-stick dragonflies, and moth and ladybug creations. For our cooking activity, we prepared edible paints and used bread as our canvas for colorful designs.

This week, we traveled Around the World as we explored different countries, cultures, and traditions through stories, art, and hands-on activities. We "visited" the United States, Egypt, China, France, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, and regions of Africa, making American flag collages, Egyptian paper puppets, Chinese lacquer fans, African tribal masks, and building the Eiffel Tower with blocks. For our cooking activity, we made dirt pudding cups with crumbled chocolate cookies, pudding, and gummy worms.

This week, we dug even deeper into our study of dinosaurs and fossils! We stepped into the role of paleontologists by excavating "dinosaur bones" using chisels and brushes, made a variety of dinosaur-themed paintings, and experimented with a fizzing "dinosaur egg" baking soda and vinegar eruption. For our cooking activity, we made fruit salad with strawberries, blueberries, apples, bananas, and melons mixed with yogurt.

Welcome to our third week of Summer Camp: Ocean Adventure! This week, we dove beneath the waves to explore the fascinating world of the ocean, creating colorful whales, octopuses, jellyfish, and seahorses through art projects, and becoming "ocean rescuers" by freeing toy sea animals trapped in ice. For our cooking activity, we made delicious fruit smoothies with strawberries, bananas, yogurt, and milk.

This week at Summer Camp, we explored the theme of "Nature," both inside and outside of the classroom. We learned about the life cycle of a plant, explored a variety of plants and flowers, created nature-inspired suncatchers and masks, and discussed how living things grow and change. For our cooking activity, we made delicious yogurt parfaits, layering Greek yogurt, fresh berries, jam, and granola.

Welcome to the first week of Summer Camp! This week, we dove into a study of water, exploring its different states, discussing the water cycle, and learning where water is found in our everyday lives through hands-on activities like water marbling, water cycle bags, and color mixing. For our cooking activity, we made refreshing ice pops with fresh watermelon and mango juice.