<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9900;">Imagine &amp; Build</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">Despite the intense heat wave that hit this week, everyone had a blast at Future Stars! In order to beat the heat, we focused on keeping the campers nice and cool by swimming in the pool and sliding down a big waterslide.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">            Moreover, we have been having fun with all of our weekly activities. In Hollywood, we are preparing more and more for the big camp show. All week, we have been working on the song and choreography for some new songs; “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I’ve Got Rhythm,” and “Time Warp.” You’ve probably heard the “Time Warp” over and over again since they have been singing it all week nonstop. In Science, we worked on building and designing towers together. In Art, the Hawks were introduced to oil pastel and watercolor to draw beautiful pieces of art.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Additionally, we had a one man circus come and perform on Monday. The Hawks were amazed at the awesome juggling feats, unicycle tricks, and jokes performed for the camp. Everyone loved watching his tricks!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">On Tuesday's cheer day, the hawk/gophers did a cheer parody of “Skater Boy” as we emphasized teamwork working together when building and designing. We didn’t win the spirit stick this week, unfortunately, but I know that we will have another shot at it next week!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hope everyone had a great weekend!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your Counselors,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Matt, Tina, Deanna</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9900;">Blue &amp; Gold </span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"> This week the Hawks and Gophers came back together for Blue and Gold week. Throughout the week we have been learning about good sportsmanship as we compete against one another. In art we made silhouettes of different athletes. Sports was competitive as we played capture the flag, soccer and handball. In Hollywood we are learning the dance, to the song <em>Shut Up and Dance</em>, which the whole camp is participating in for National Dance Day. At the pool we had relay races and learned how to dive in the deep end. Science we had mini competitions like building ramps and picking beans up with a straw. Finally on Friday the group will split up into two teams, blue and gold, as they will compete in a relay race in front of the entire camp. Everyone had such a great time this week and we can’t wait for things to start again on Monday.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Jake, Tina, Ronnie, and Lorenzo</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9900;">Carnival</span></strong></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hawks:</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">This week is Carnival Week!  That means we got a super fun bouncy house all week to bounce around in.  It has a slide that we get to go down when our turn is up.  In Art we’ve been working on watercolor paintings of carousel horses.  Mister Ray says that horses are some of the hardest things to draw, but the Hawks did a fantastic job completing them.  In Science, we figured out how many drops of water could fit on different coins, and then had to save Fred the gummy worm from the capsized cup.  Hollywood has been tons of fun.  We got to try acting games where we did “knock knock” jokes with different emotions.  In the pool we’ve been working on our kicks and dives.  Tomorrow is the carnival and everyone is looking forward to dunking Ronnie in the dunk tank!  We had Magic by Stu earlier this week and Ozzie and Mia got to be magician’s assistants.  We were all super proud!  It has been a fun, magic-packed week for the Hawks at Future Stars.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Super week everyone,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">-Claire, Ronnie and Natalie</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Gophers:</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Gophers have had an exciting event-filled week at Future Stars Camp.  Monday started with drawing horse and a magic show, where Varsha got to participate and lend a hand.  Later in the week we got to finish their drawings, learn a fast-paced dance to a song by Walk the Moon, practice stability and learn about balance in science, play fun games in the pool and enjoy the lunches and snacks offered and just plain have fun at camp!  The Gophers also played “Silent Ball” where Alyssa blew away everyone and “Four Corners” where no girl could win more than one game.  They also got to enjoy educational games in computers and playing “knockout” in the bouncy house where Katherine and Paige both won a game.  We also got to enjoy a carnival on Friday where we played games, dunked counselors and had refreshing snow cones.  The Gophers had a blast.  Their week at Future Stars has allowed for a lot of fun as well as creativity, such as Rebecca deciding to make her hose a unicorn or when the girls designed their own paper air balloons.  Yeah Gophers!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your counselors,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">-Mike, Tina and Lorenzo</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Fueled For Fun</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">This week the Hawks and Gophers learned about the importance of fuel in a fun way. In Science Ryan, Kanayo, Nate and Shreya volunteered to get their bodies traced to learn about the different organs in our bodies. In Hollywood we are learning to sing and dance to “Fun, Fun, Fun” by the Beach Boys. Melanie, Avery and Hannah learned the dance quickly and helped others in the group learn it. In Sport we played a fun game of “Capture the Flag”. Lola and Jasmine did a great job guarding while Adam and Kai helped their teammates get out of jail. Wednesday in Art we made crazy hats out of tissue paper. Caroline, Trey and Ozzie made some awesome looking ones! On Thursday in Science we conducted an experiment by taking the DNA out of strawberries. Katherine, Carlin and Varsha did a great job mashing them up and extracting the DNA. Mia, Michelle and Nate had a lot of fun in the pool as we played sharks and minnows. This was another great week in the Hawk/Gopher group and we can’t wait for the next week to get started!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Your Counselors,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">-Jake, Kayla and Ronnie</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #339966;"><strong>If I  Ran The Rainforest</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">This week in the Hawk/Gopher group did a lot of fun activities and were very well behaved as a group. On Monday, we attended a jump rope show that all of the campers enjoyed. One camper said, “I liked it. It was really good!” On top of that, one of the Hawk/Gophers was picked to participate and did a great job doing some cool jump rope tricks in front of the whole camp. Tuesday was probably our best day as a group. Not only were all of the campers well behaved but we as a group won the spirit stick for coming up with the best cheer on cheer day! All campers make solid contributions. On Wednesday we had a lot of fun, especially in pool. In Hollywood everyone was engaged and having fun learning their new dance.</p>