Welcome back to another exciting week of summer camp! This week, we dove into our theme, "Ocean Exploration: Beaches and Seashells," and made waves with fun, hands-on activities.
Throughout the week, we read many engaging stories in both English and Chinese, such as “Tom is a Fish,” “Seashells by the Seashore,” “My Home is Missing,” “A Day at the Beach,” “Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach,” and “I See Summer.” These books helped us to learn about ocean life, start conversations about beach adventures, and practice sight words like boat, sand, sun, and swim to add to our vocabulary.
We expressed our creativity this week through a variety of sea-inspired art projects. We painted watercolor seashells, crafted rainbow fishes and narwhal headdresses, sculpted coral from air clay, and designed vibrant underwater seascapes.
In addition, we explored real seashells using magnifying glasses, made “waves” in a bottle with oil and water, practiced sorting animals by habitat, and cleaned up “ocean garbage” in sensory bins while learning how to care for our planet.
On Wednesday, Coach Evan introduced us to new soccer exercises in our weekly soccer class, and on Friday, we cut up strawberries, bananas and blended it together with yogurt to make delicious fruit smoothies for our weekly cooking class.
We can’t wait to dive even deeper into our underwater adventures next week—stay tuned!
Students painted seashell designs with watercolors and completed their work by adding a “pearl” inside.
Students explored seashells through digging in sand, painting them, sorting them by shape, and comparing different types of seashells using picture cards.
Students carefully pushed pipe cleaners into molded clay to represent coral.
Students traced their hands onto paper and decorated the design with markers and stickers to create a fish puppet.
Students cut and sorted animals into various categories, such as mammals and non-mammals, or land and sea animals.
Students decorated their own ocean-inspired headbands.
This week, students cut an assortment of fruit, added milk and yogurt, and blended them all up to make a delicious smoothie.
Students pretended to have a summer BBQ and played with balls outdoors. On Wednesday, they learned new soccer drills with Coach Evan.
