August 19, 2010

This week at Future Stars, we prepared for our camp show. We practiced dance moves and learned a few more along the way. It will be a spectacular production! AS the summer draws to an end, so does this summer at Future Stars. We had lots of fun this summer and hope to see you next year. I hope that you had a wonderful summer and enjoy your school year.

This week at camp, Isabella, Bridget, and Katelyn showed us their dance moves as we prepared for the camp show. Gianna, Brinda, and Ryann had tons of fun in the pool. Olivia R., Caroline. And Cecilia played in the gym and had a blast! Cooper, Samantha, and Michaela enjoyed watching videos in science class that were really cool. Olivia and Sophia made awesome creations during art. Thank you for coming this year and hope to see you next year.

Sincerely,

Rachel and Heath

August 13, 2010

Dear Dragon parents,

This week was “Happy Birthday” week here at Future Stars and the Dragons had a blast!  Mikayla, Ryann and Rylee showed our lifeguards how to have a great time in pool by showing off their diving skills.  This week Kristen was our sports instructor and she taught us the right way to kick a soccer ball and play by the rules.  Samantha, Bridget and Olivia did not need any coaching, they were naturals!  In Art, instructor Rebecca gave us free reign to the art supplies and the campers picked multiple projects.  Cooper and Caroline put together their own basketball hoop, while Sophia and Talia made awesome Native American necklaces!  Norah, Alice and Cecilia were captivated when instructor Karen showed us a video of how to recycle properly and how much effort goes into keeping this planet clean.  In Hollywood, the Dragons are preparing for next weeks camp show.  Even though all of this weeks campers will not be joining us for the show we had a lot of help putting together part of our routine.  Gianna and Isabella really taught Patty, the instructor, a thing or two about dancing, they helped out tremendously with our dance.  Brinda and Katelyn went wild when it came to this weeks BANANA DAY, a new counselor came to camp this week and the girls helped him learn how to do the dance the way Future Stars rocks it! Next week we will be preparing for our camp show and we hope all of the campers and parents will be present!

From your dragon counselors,

Rachel and Mallory

July 16, 2010

Dear Parents,

It has been another exciting week at Future Stars! This week’s theme was dinosaurs, so the dragons were able to take a trip back and learn more about the world millions of years ago. In art this week, we made our own historic scenes out of crayons and dinosaur stickers. We also were able to design what our very own dinosaurs would look like out of cardboard and markers. In sport, we played games with hula hoops and Frisbees as well as a few rounds of soccer and hockey. In pool we worked on swimming our laps and all of our hard work paid off with free swim on Friday. On Wednesday we had the Academy of Natural Sciences come and give a presentation on the creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago. We had the opportunity to see many different fossils and body parts of a variety of dinosaurs. This was very interesting and informative because its hard to get a picture of how large an actual dinosaur is until you see one of its horns! In science, we discussed eating patterns and the different types of dinosaurs that once existed. Our instructor Tim gave us insight on the daily activities of a dinosaur and how they survived.  In Hollywood, our activity of the week was to watch clips from different movies and interpret them to create our own movie scenes. We hope you had as good a week as all of us and can’t wait to see you back for carnival week!!

Counselors,

Casey, Nigel, &amp; Dana

July 9, 2010

Dear Parents,

The campers had a great time this week enjoying Doctor Seuss themed activities and art projects. In Sport Harrison, Sofia, Cooper, Matt, Olivia, Isabella, Christian, and Ashley had a great time playing soccer. Quinn, Chloe, Grace, and J’anaya created lots of nifty crafts in Art. The kids had a great time in pool and Jonathan, Katelyn, Michele, and Olivia improved their skills in many ways. Nadia, Giana, Erica, Talia, Clio, and Samantha had fun learning about animals when the zoo came to camp.     Justin had a great time playing knock out this week. Brinda, Cecilia, Ryann, and Caroline had making their Doctor Seuss video during Hollywood.

Sincerely,

Lindsey, Dana, Casey, Christina, and Colin

July 2, 2010

Dear Parents,

It has been another exciting week at camp! This week was stars and stripes week in honor of our country’s birthday this Sunday. Throughout the week we participated in various USA themed activities. In art, we made bald eagle door hangers as well as USA necklaces. We also made our very own fireworks with paint and glitter. The theme is science this week was aviation and static electricity. In the future stars experiment lab, we used balloons, shreds of paper, and pieces of wool to give us insight into how static electricity works. We also were able to watch a movie on the start of aviation. We learned a lot about the Blue Angels and how they train to do their gravity defying stunts. In Hollywood we had the opportunity to make our very own news cast. While other groups at camp worked on their segments for the show, the dragons were responsible for the commercials. Groups of dragons teamed up to let other campers know the latest and greatest in vacuums, sneakers and even sunglasses. On Thursday we took some time out of our busy production schedule for a little R&amp;R in the parking lot with sidewalk chalk. In the pool, our instructors Brianna and Sally helped the dragons work on knee dives and treading water.  In sport, we honored the world cup by practicing our best soccer moves. We also competed in kickball, relay races and even learned some more about hula hooping. Our culminating event for the week is our 4th of July barbeque. We enjoyed s’mores, hot dogs, and watermelon while we watched our newscast. We hope everyone had a great time at camp and we hope to see you back next week!

Casey &amp; Devon

June 25, 2010

Dear Parents,

We had a very exciting first week at camp. This week’s theme was Back to the Beach week, with a camp wide Luau as the culminating event. In Art, we made a few different beach themed projects including necklaces and paper ships.  In Hollywood, each of the groups picked a different song to make a music video to. The Dragons chose “Surfin’ USA” by The Beach Boys. The group came up with some rockin’ dance moves for our video and it turned out great! Our new Sport instructor, Corey, helped teach us how to safely play on scooters, learn how to jump rope, and polish up our soccer skills. This week in pool each of the campers were tested on swimming skills to decide what level they fell into. We also worked on perfecting our freestyle with big kicks and full strokes. As Future Stars Scientists, we experimented with surface tension. We also took nature walks in the grove and watched Under the Sea videos to learn more about the world we live in. On Tuesday of this week, we came up with a fantastic cheer. Although we didn’t win, everyone did a great job coming up with lyrics and performing them in front of the camp! We hope everyone had a good week and we can’t wait to see you again next week!

Casey, Ben, &amp; Kelsey

To the tune of “Under the Sea” in The Little Mermaid

Under the sun, under the sun,

Everything’s better down where it’s wetter,

We love to have fun!

All day at camp we love to play

While our parents work all day

While we are cheering,

Everyone’s hearing!

Under the sun!