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<span style="color: #000000;">Happy Bug Week parents and campers!!! This week we celebrated everything that creeps and crawls with many special guests and activities. This week in science our campers studied the life cycle of the butterfly by observing real caterpillers transform before their eyes. In art our campers made their own bug sculptures out of clay, along with some awesome butterflies. In Hollywood it was stand-up commidy using bug themed jokes that had our campers laughing.  The entire camp was visited by Puppets Pizzazz and the Bug Man this week, enjoying laughing, dancing and singing along with puppets, and capturing creepy-crawlies up close. <strong>Seth </strong>showed his swimming skills this week by making one of the bigest whirlpools our pool has ever seen<strong> </strong>. <strong>Kenny  </strong>splashed and had tons of fun in the sprinkler. <strong>Benny</strong> showed all the counselors how it was done by swimming the fastest in our relay race in the pool The Gators played many different sports and games this week, including dodgeball and "Doggy, Where's Your Bone". <strong> Mark </strong>showed off his great kicking skills in dodgeball, and <strong>Caterina </strong>was the best at when it came to  hiding the bone. At the pool, <strong>Emily </strong>was awesome during our penny diving competition, beating instructor Chris by collecting the most pennie, 12 to be exact. Way to go Em! In art <strong>Evan</strong> showed his creative side, sketching and etching a great race car. <strong>Alexa, Nikki, </strong>and<strong> Samantha </strong>came up with the winning idea for our cheer this week, their creative thoughts won the Gators the trophy. <strong>Lilly</strong> and <strong>Victoria</strong> came up with our banana dance on Thursday, keeping in mind the theme of the week. </span><span style="color: #000000;"> This week, <strong>Taylor </strong>was the Gator Camper of the Week! She participated in every activity, and she always had a great attitude! We hope to have many more great weeks like this one.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Your Counselors,</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Gus and Alyson </span>

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<h1><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>EARTH WEEK</strong></span></h1>
<span style="color: #000000;">The Gators had another fantastic week at camp. We enjoyed lots of fun activities like the animal show and a luau! During art, <strong>Evan</strong> made an awesome flower thermometer! This week we also made cool octopus mobiles, and<strong> Lilly's </strong>came out wonderful! <strong>Caterina</strong> also had a blast during art and created a beautiful fish neckalace! We had two all-star sports players this week.<strong> Victoria </strong>was excellent during dodgeball and helped her team score a run!<strong> Cassie </strong>showed off her skills during baseball and hit a double!<strong> Kenny </strong>had a great time playing baby in the air, and was able to get many other players out! In Hollywood, we had the opportunitity to create and film a news show.<strong> Seth </strong>had a blast being on camera and interviewing other campers! Thanks for a wonderful week and have a fantastic holiday weekend!</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Your Counselors,</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Mariah and James</span>

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<h1><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Dr. Seuss Week </span></strong></h1>
The Gators had an awesome first week of camp! We did a variety of different activities which included arts and crafts, swimming, and playing tons of sports. In art, <strong>Caterina </strong>made a colorful hat! <strong>Lilly </strong>also had a great time during art this week and made a beautiful wand.  Although the Gators did not win the trophy during cheer day, <strong>Seth </strong>created an amazing cheer based off of the Brady Bunch theme song! During hollywood, <strong>Julia </strong>preformed a fantastic skit about her future plans to become an artist! <strong>Victoria </strong>was our science genius this week and was able to share her knowledge about UV rays with the rest of the Gator group! <strong>Kenny </strong>had a great time playing sharks and minnows in the pool as well as during game and was able to tag all of the minnows! During sport, <strong>Molly</strong> showed us her soccer skills and was able to lead her team to victory during world cup soccer! <strong>Ryan </strong>also had a great time during sport with the All-sports while playing kickball and helped his team score two runs! After a fantastic week, we are anticipating a wonderful summer! Have a good weekend!

Your Counselors,

Mariah, James and Dan