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<span style="color: #99cc00; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is great to have everyone back at camp for the first week.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">It is also nice to see a bunch of new faces joining camp.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">During this first week we had a theme of “If I ran the Rainforest”, where everything we did had to do with the animals and environment of the rainforest. This week during Hollywood we put on a play called a “Rumpus in the rainforest”.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Each camper had a role as a different animal that lives in the rainforest.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Catie B</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. and </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Nadia K</span>. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">had lead roles in the play as being the toucan and storyteller.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">We continued the fun of running the rainforest in science by making pictures of the different layers of the rainforest.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Marlena S</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. had a blast using tissue paper to make trees in the canopy layer of the rainforest.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The rainforest fun continued in art where we made different animals that live in the rainforest.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Julia A. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">enjoyed making a bird and snake from the rainforest out of a paper plate.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">To go along with the drawings in are the campers made pipe cleaner animals that </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Steph B</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">.</span> really enjoyed creating a turtle.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">To go along with all the indoor actives during the week the campers also participated in many games and sports.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the games we played was knockout where </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Tye F</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. came out victorious.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The kids also participated in a few games of dodgeball where </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Shaymus M</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. had a grand old time running around dodging balls and getting kids out.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">After playing game and being in the hot weather each day the kids enjoyed time spent in the pool learning different ways to swim such as freestyle and backstroke.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">This turned out to be some of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Bella S</span>. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">favorite activities of the week.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">It gave her a time to cool off and show off her moves swimming around in the free time after all out teaching was done.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Also on Thursday was our famous banana day where each group was in charge of creating a part of the banana dance.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Delania S</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. was very helpful in giving us the idea of doing a grandma banana for the <span style="color: #99cc00;">che</span></span></span><span style="color: #99cc00;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">er.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Over all it was a great week and I am happy to announce </span><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">Jared S</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. as our top banana for the week. He was very cooperative and had a great attitude toward everything we did for the week and also had a lead </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">part in the play as the frog.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Im excited to see what the rest of the summer has in store for us and will be looking forward to seeing all the campers again next week for Down the Shore.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks!!!!!</span></span></span>

<span style="color: #99cc00; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Kevin S</span>

<span style="color: #99cc00; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Grace C</span>

<span style="color: #99cc00; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Caterina B</span>