August 5, 2011

Dear Parents,

This week at camp was Blue and Gold week! The campers were split into two teams and competed throughout the week to win points for their team. They got points for games they played in sport and pool. They were also awarded points for good behavior like cleaning up and helping out. Everyone really enjoyed trying to get more points than the other team. On Thursday, there was a counselor blue and gold game, and all the campers cheered for their favorite counselors on their team.

The campers played lots of blue and gold games this week in pool. They played marco polo and sharks and minnows. The last player left would win 50 points for their team . We also played Movies. Where one person would pick a movie and give hints to the other campers while they tried to guess the movie. The also played the penny game. Counselors would throw pennies into the pool. The campers would collect the pennies and bring the pennies back to their side. The team with the most pennies at the end won! Brinda, Sophia, and Anna helped the blue team get over 150 pennies!
In art, this week the campers painted the butterflies blue and gold to show their team spirit. Gianna, Talia, and Alice had a fun time this week in art making butterflies. The campers also made blue and gold bracelets to support their teams. They also made blue and gold wristbands and headbands out of construction paper.
In sport the teams got very competitive when blue and gold played each other. The campers played matball with all-sports. Mikayla, Nacie, and Cooper were able to kick the ball so far! The campers also played kickball, knockout, and foursquare. Victoria, Isabella, and Rylee all showed great sportsmanship towards the other team.
In science this week, we made airplane. They were made out of straws and paper strips. The campers got really creative when they decorated them. They also saw caterpillars and butterflies. Caroline, Ryan, and Cecilia were all really interested in the butterflies that had hatched from their chrysalises.

Next week is 'When I Grow Up" week. We are all really looking forward to it.

Sincerely,
Dave, Mary Ellen, and Koosha

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July 29, 2011

Dear Parents,

Welcome all to our 6th week here at Future Stars Day Camp! This week we are celebrating bug week, where our campers learn about various types of bugs and insects. They also have been able to participate in our various games dealing with bugs, names, what bugs eat, the sounds they make and where they live.
<div>Our campers had the chance to go out and search for bugs this week during our science period. Ryley and Isabella were able to catch a slug during our outside scavenger hunt and kept it in a bottle.</div>
<div>During Hollywood our campers were introduced or reintroduced to a game called detective, where our campers would have to guess who our frog of the group was. While one camper was to sit outside of the classroom, one of our counselors chose a frog, which meant that he/she would have to stick their tongue out when the detective wasn't looking. The detective's job was to figure out who the frog was in three guesses. Samantha was able to guess our frog, who was Alice, on her first guess!</div>
<div>One of our special attractions this week was our hayride. The hayride was being pulled by two huge belgian-bred horses. Gianna was able to pet a horse for the first time of her life, while Ryan took a nap on the relaxing ride.</div>
<div>Another attraction of the week was our petting zoo! We had special trainers come in to bring a snake, lizard, hissing cockroach, porcupine, and an African penguin. Kyle was able to answer multiple questions about our reptiles group. Cooper and Rebecca were able to pet the snake and lizard as it was passed around. The campers stared in awe at the intelligence of the porcupine and penguin.</div>
<div>To go along with our Hollywood games, campers made jumping frogs out of paper. Talia, Gianna and Caroline's frogs all were able to jump really high.</div>
<div>During sport this week we introduced many campers to matball, which is similar to kickball but with a few different rules. Marc almost kicked a homerun on his first kick. Grace made a great catch to save the game, while Sophia scored several runs to give her team the victory!</div>
<div>In game this week a few campers helped introduce the game of four-square. Brinda, Ryann, Mikayla and Isabella had a great time teaching and playing four-square to the other campers. They showed great sportsmanship.</div>
<div>Next week we will be celebrating our blue and gold week here at Future Stars, so make sure all our campers participate by showing off their blue and gold!</div>
<div>Dave, Mary Ellen, and Dylan</div>
July 22, 2011

Dear Parents,

Hello and welcome back for another exciting week here at Future Stars Day Camp. We have just hit our halfway point here in our summer session and our summer is just getting started! This week is one of the campers favorites, as we celebrate our annual Carnival Week and prepare for fun games and activities on Friday that I'm sure our parents will be apart of!
<div>Our science periods this week were filled with sound experiments and games to help our campers better understand how the human body reacts with sound. We participated in a sound game where students were to listen with both ears, then just one ear to determine where a sound game from in the class room, and to see which sense was stronger. As Cecilia pointed out the clapper, Ryan was able to choose the correct clapper with both two years open and one. Katelyn was great help with recording the results.</div>
<div>During art this week, our campers had the opportunity to work with clay and create a sculpture of their choosing. Erica designed a beautiful rose creation, while Caroline began to create a miniature basketball sculpture. Isabella worked so hard on her clay creation and was eager to begin painting it the very next day. **<strong>We would like to ask our parents to provide their children with smocks or big, old t-shirts for their children to wear as we get into more paint-oriented activities so that they protect their clothes from the paint.</strong>**</div>
<div>Hollywood consisted of our Hawks learning and continuing to play childhood board games such as checkers, chess, chutes and ladders and monopoly. Mikayla showed great skill in playing checkers as she won various checkers matches. Kyle was even able to beat one of our CIT's in chess, while Sophia, Anna, and Cooper enjoyed bringing back childhood memories and playing chutes and ladders.</div>
<div>We've had some huge improvements here this week during our swimming sessions! Gianna has greatly improved upon her free-style stroke here at camp, and now cannot wait to get into the pool everyday. Rebecca and Ryann were able to move up one class due to their great dedication to becoming better swimmers. Brinda has finally been able to overcome her diving fear and has been working diligently to be able to perform a standing dive into the pool.</div>
<div>We participated in water games this week to help drown out the seemingly blistering sun for our campers and cool them down. Isabella and Heidi enjoyed our water balloon toss, as well as running through the sprinklers with our other campers escape the heat.</div>
<div>Our sports periods have been centered around team building sports such as soccer and Q-tip ball. Nacie has enjoyed his first week here, being a great help to his teammates and making great plays with Alan, as Victoria has made a lot of new friends as well, enjoying her free-play time in sport with Gianna and other campers, helping her team to be victorious in Q-tip ball.</div>
<div>This Friday is our carnival, and we hope to have a big turnout here at Future Stars from our parents and friends. There will be water games, classic carnival games, and don't forget the prizes! So join our campers as we wrap up our celebration of Carnival week!!</div>
<div>David, Nicole and Koosha</div>
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July 8, 2011

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to our third week of great fun with future stars camp! This week we celebrated our patriotic country with our stars and stripes theme. The campers showed their proud country's colors of red, white and blue!
<div>During our science period, the Hawks have worked with pulleys, learning about weight transfer and differences in elevation techniques. Isabella, Caroline and Rebecca created a home-made pulley system to lift pennies up and down in a plastic bag out of paper, tape and rulers.</div>
<div>In this weeks exciting Hollywood expedition, the Hawks filmed their own versions of a news channels. Erica, Samantha, Cecilia, Cooper and Brinda's group consists of creating segments with sports, weather, new products and breaking news in today's world!</div>
<div>We had a lot of improvements in this week's swimming adventures. Gianna and Ryann have improved their freestyle swimming stroke tremendously. Some campers have even been able to move up into the deep end from the shallow end because of their progress.</div>
<div>Our art classes have been filled with red, white and blue crafts, including wearable visors and usable crafty picture frames. Sophia and Talia also created multiple gimp bracelets for other campers.</div>
<div>During sports this week, the Hawks participated in a new game called Q-tip ball, where campers use Q-tip looking sticks to score balls in goals. Ryan and Eric showed great sportsmanship making great passes and scoring goals! Grace and Gianna made some great kicks during our kickball game to help their team win.</div>
<div>We have enjoyed working with your campers this week and hope to have just as much or even more fun these remaining 6 weeks of future stars day camp!</div>
<div>David, Christina and Dylan</div>
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July 1, 2011

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<div>This week we celebrated go-green week, and had lots of fun activities relating to the environment. In science, Cooper, Kate, and Johnathon loved learning about properites of water. They also learned about pollution, which Alice seemed to know lots about. In art, we created nature collages that Brinda, Sophia and Caroline did beautfully. This week in Hollywood the campers made music videos to Just Dance, Poker Face, and Party In The USA.  Colby, Rylee and Ryann helped make the great dances. We worked on diving and freestyle swimming in pool, and we have some natural divers like Talia and Gianna. Kyle and Erica loved playing kickball  in sport, and Anna and Grace had fun with the combined Gopher/Eagle and Hawk free gym. Cecilia and Sarah had fun, like always, in computers this week. Overall we had a great week, having fun and making friends.</div>
<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div>Cristina, Rebecca, and Dylan</div>
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June 24, 2011
<div dir="ltr">The first week of camp was a great start to the summer here at Future Stars! Our first theme of the week was Dr. Suess week, and our campers had a lot of fun reading Dr.Suess books and making cheers that rhyme! On Tuesday, we made a cheer for Cheer Day and we won the spirit stick! In Science, we read Dr.Suess’s book, <em>Bartholemew and the Oobleck</em> and we made our own oobleck to play with. Colby, Ryann, and Cooper had a great time sticking their hands in the slimy oobleck. We played soccer this week in sport and Mikayla, Rylee, Grace, and Brinda really showed off their skills! Genevieve, Cecilia, Olivia, and Anna had a great time in pool learning and perfecting their free style swim. In Hollywood this week, we wrote our own Dr. Suess play and Alice, Sophia, and Rebecca had a wonderful time writing and acting out their own plays. Gianna and Jonathan loved art this week, finger painting and making hats. All together, this first week of camp was a success for the Hawks and every camper really enjoyed themselves. We hope to see everyone back for another fun filled week of Future Stars!</div>
<div dir="ltr">Sincerely, your counselors,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Cristina, Dylan, and Cayla</div>