August 13, 2010

Dear Parents,

Hello to all! Here we are from Future Stars where we had yet another fantastic week.  The theme this week was Future Stars: Birthday Week.  The campers had a great time this week, partying away in celebration of Future Stars’ 40<sup>th</sup> birthday.  This week in art, Claire, Caitlin, and Nina made fantastic creations, both colorful, and creative.  In Hollywood, Michele, Olivia, and Clio, danced their hearts out was we started to prepare for our finale of the camp show.  In sport this week Christian, Ashley, and Maximus showed us their skills in all ranges of sports.  After a great week of fun and games everyone in the Hawks had a great time celebrating Future Stars’ 40<sup>th</sup> birthday, and hopefully, many more birthdays to come!

Thanks!

Cristina and Ben

August 6, 2010

Dear Parents

Blue and Gold week has come to a close after five long days of harsh competition. Each camper is assigned a team; blue or gold, and compete against each other all week in different types of competition. In art, we took it easy and worked on various team themed gear. We made pennants, and megaphones to cheer on our teammates. In sport, we played soccer, kickball, Qtip ball, and basketball. During each game it was a close competition so each team got points, keeping the scores close for blue and gold. In Hollywood, we played pictionary and charades for points. Hollywood also held some dancing, singing, and story time this week. In pool, campers were able to play fun pool games for points such as TV/ Movie tag, and sharks and minnows. In science we took a few nature walks, seeing all the beauty and bugs Villa’s campus has to offer us. Our culminating activity for the week was our blue and gold marathon, we played out on the field various fun and exciting activities. We hope you enjoyed the past week as much as we have! Have a good weekend and hopefully see you next week as we prepare for the camp show!!

Casey, Nicole and Mary Ellen

July 30, 2010

Dear Parents,

It has been another exciting week here at Future Stars.  This week was Creepy Crawlers week.  Throughout the week we all participated in various bug themed activities.  In Art we make our very own bug jars.  We also make buggy wind chimes for the garden.  Every Tuesday there is a camp wide competition that we like to call Cheer Day.  This week we won with our own rendition of a bug pledge from <em>Full House</em>.  Wednesday and Thursday we worked hard on our Spirit Stick to place in the Spirit Stick hall of fame.  In Science, we went on a nature walk and searched the playground for different kinds of insects.  This week in Hollywood it was karaoke and dance party week. We sang and danced to many different songs.  We all had a blast! In Pool everyone had a great time playing the movie game where everyone actually wanted to be it!  In Sport, we played soccer and whiffle ball.  We hope you had as much fun as we did this week and we look forward to seeing you back next week!

Nicole and Casey

July 16, 2010

Dear Hawk Parents,

This week at Future Stars was Dinosaur week.  The Hawks had so much fun learning new and interesting things about them.  In science instructor Tim showed us a fascinating video called “Prehistoric Planet”.  Harrison, our dinosaur buff, helped to fill us in on facts the video left out.  Grace loved seeing the baby dinosaurs and tried to recreate them in art.  Justin and Chloe impressed Rebecca, the art instructor, with their creative insight on what Dinosaurs could look like today if they were still alive.

Tuesday was cheer day and without the rhyming skills of Heidi and J’Anaya our cheer would have been lacking. The cheer judges could not come up with a decision so we had to have a cheer off between the Gophers and us, sadly we did not win but there is always next week!  Pool is usually a favorite of the campers and this week Quinn and Olivia improved greatly on their diving skills.  In the shallow end Christian and Clio impressed our lifeguards with their back floats.  Erica, Nadia and Anna gave it their best in sport with instructor Corey.  They showed determination and hustle when it came to games like hockey, soccer, mat ball and bean bag sneaker tag.  We are so proud of our campers and we hope that they are having as much fun as we are!  I hope all of the campers come back for our most exciting week of camp, Carnival week.  Have a great weekend.

Your Hawk Counselors,

Rachel, Jenna and Heath

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,

Stars and stripes week was the best week of camp. We did many fun and exciting activities. Michele, Clio, Chloe, and Nicole made excellent art projects in art as we did many patriotic themed activities. We played many different sports this week, in kickball Anna and J’anaya played very hard. The pool was awesome this week Justin, Erica and Matt had tons of fun. In Hollywood we made a news report for the camp. Olivia, Grace, Nadia, and Adam did a great job making it happen.  Christian and Harrison did great in the many science projects we did this week. We had a barbeque on Friday with many great foods. This summer has just begun and it will only get better.

Your Counselors,

Colin and Lindsey

June 25, 2010

Dear Parents,

We had a blast at camp this week with under the sea week. Maximus and Harrison created awesome ships in art.  Nadia and Michele had a great time in the pool this week. Olivia, Grace, Clare, and Anna starred in our music video of Surfing USA. Jackson and Matt dominated at kickball. We did many experiments in science this week pertaining to under the sea week. Ashley and Grace had fun in science making boats. We played many games this week but one of the favorites was capture the flag. J’anaya and Nick excelled in capture the flag.

Your counselors,

Colin and Lindsey