July 29, 2011

Dear Gator Parents,

This week at camp was bugs week and all of the gators truly enjoyed participating and learning all throughout the week. During kickball Kirsten, Matt, Hannah, Michael, and Lexi all contributed great hits driving in countless runs for their teams. In the pool, the Gators and all sports participated in water polo and Sophia, Jordan, Stephanie, and Isabella played great creating excellent opportunities for their teams to score. On tuesday, the Leigh Valley Zoo visited camp and Ryan, Lauren, Becca, Jenna, Samantha, and Jamie learned many new facts about animals such as the African Black-Footed Penguin. During Hollywood, Josh, Kenny, and Maddie loved playing new games as well as learning new things about their fellow campers. We hope everyone had an amazing week and we hope to see you all next week.
<div>Your Counselors,</div>
<div>Josh and Kelsey</div>
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July 22, 2011

Dear Parents,

Carnival week may have been hot but we still had a lot of fun. We made all the posters for the carnival this week in art. Josh made a great poster for the popcorn machine. Liz and Kirsten drew some awesome ducks for the duck pond poster. We played an awesome game of water polo in pool. Jaime, Nick, Matt, and Kenny really stepped their game up. Madelyn and Alexis dominated  in camper knockout. Ryan got second place in instructor camper knockout. We played hide and seek on Monday Arthur, Sydney, Lauren P and Nicole did a great job. We did some experiments this week in science with balloons. Hannah, Lauren F, and Jordan made some awesome experiments.

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Your Counselors,

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Kelsey and Colin

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July 15, 2011

Dear Parents,

Hello and welcome back to our fourth, very exciting week here at future stars camp! This week our campers have been celebrating our great world as we take part in our "around the world" theme here at future stars day camp!

During our fourth week, the gators have been participating in scientific experiments dealing with floating objects. Joshua was able to answer various questions for us about science names and terms, while Nicholas helped complete a salt water/fresh water floating experiment.

On tuesday, our campers had the privilege to attend a magic show put on by a magician who performs all over for small children. All the kids enjoyed laughing at his jokes and staring in awe at his magical talent. Lauren was called up as a magical volunteer to assist him in creating a coin illusion; she was a great helper!

This week in our exciting Hollywood period, campers were focused on playing games and making up their own. William was brilliant when it came to our trivia brain questions. Matt and Ryan were also great team players in creating a unique board game of their own that everyone enjoyed playing!

Our sports week this week was full of team ball kicking games, including soccer and kickball. Alexis and Madelyn showed great kicking skills, scoring multiple runs for their teams in kickball and bringing victory to their teams.

Our swimming period introduced some new games this week, including water polo and wet shirt relay races. Campers experienced swimming with using a polo ball and learned the basics. Hannah and Elizabeth were big time swimmers in our relay race where campers had to trade off a wet t-shirt they swam in to each member and complete the race.

Lauren and Susana enjoyed learning about different countries this week in around the world week. Our campers learned about languages from China, Egypt, Italy, France, Mexico and India. Kenneth and Samantha both participated in learning simple things like hello and goodbye, please and thank you, and banana in different languages. We even sang our banana day cheer with a different, newly learned language!

Future Stars Day Camp has reached it's halfway point, and we're only getting started! We still have a ton of events for the rest of the summer, including our carnival week and camp show! So lets make sure our campers don't miss out on any of the upcoming fun!

David and Kelsey

July 8, 2011

Dear Parents,

This week was a blast with stars and stripes week. We did a lot of exciting activities in art this week. We made visors, flags out of safety pins and beads, and more. Lauren, Kenny, Elizabeth, and Susana made some awesome art projects this week. We played many sports kickball , basketball just to a name a few. Haley had an amazing out in kickball at home and Nick dominated with a inside a park homeroom. Allie, Megan and Nicole also showed a lot of effort during sport. In pool we had some intense games of water polo. The shallow end team won on Tuesday and the deep end team dominated on Wednesday. Mike, Elizibeth C, Hannah, Lucas, and   Alan did a great job during these games. We made news stories during Hollywood Becca, Jenna, Marisa, and Josh made showed a lot of talent. We experimented with pulleys during science and watched videos on Albatross and Seals. Kirsten, Emily, Kayla, and Lauren made some awesome experiments.

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Sincerely,

Colin and Kelsey

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July 1, 2011

Dear Parents,

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June 24, 2011

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Dear Parents,</span>

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">We kicked started the summer with Doctor Seuss week at Future Stars Camp. In Hollywood we read a Dr. Seuss book and then the campers wrote their own Dr. Seuss story. We recorded the videos on Thursday then shared them with the rest of the group on Friday. Hannah, Sophia, Samantha, and Liz made an awesome story up about a purple unicorns adventures in Las Vegas. We played an awesome game of PaulBall on Tuesday morning. Matt, Ryan, and Michael showed a lot of effort during the game. We played our first game of capture the flag on Monday. Haley showed a lot of sportsmanship during the game. Nick played awesome defense not allowing the other team to get the flag.   We did a lot of different activities in Art this week. We made kaleidoscopes and maracas just to name a few. Lauren, Remi and Kenny did very well in Art this week. This first week at Pool we test the kids to see how they are at swimming. We did some relay races as well. Sydney, Molly, and Megan flew through the pool. We did a lot of activities in Science this week testing the effectiveness of sun tan lotion. Josh and Stephanie did a great job at these activities.</span>

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Looking forward to seeing you next week for Green Earth Week!</span>

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Sincerely,</span>

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Colin and Dave</span>

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