Week Five 7/16-7/20

It's already the second half of our summer and we were so pleased to see some new faces join us at camp for these next four weeks! We've been off to a great start, filling the next part of our summer with tons of fun and even a little bit of learning! In Science our campers studied frogs and learned to write their observations down in a organized format, they made journal entries just like real scientists! Our area leader, Rachel Fosse, has been doing an amazing job getting campers excited about science. Way to go Rachel!

At Sportsfield we've been working on our football skills, specifically passing and kicking, and the campers were challenged to see how far they could move a football. We laid a tape measure down and were amazed at how far some of our campers could punt and pass! The throwing record was 81 feet and the kicking record was a whopping 94 feet! Way to go HPR!

This week at our Nature Campcraft, our resident expert Deb Lyons has been impressing everyone even more than usual! Campers made hundreds of pancakes on homemade outdoor stoves for Lumberjack Day Friday, they have been working in their own saw yard like real lumberjacks, and learning to identify all the different trees at camp just by their leaves! It is so much fun to watch all our camper's confidence grow as they learn to appreciate the great outdoors!

Arts and Crafts had a lot of fun as well this week with some creative driveway painting. We listened to different styles of music like jazz, musicals, even some current songs while we let it inspire us to paint the driveway with a cool blend of cornstarch, water, and dyes for a homemade paint!

We had a big announcement this week that has been keeping the kids extremely excited, we announced that this summer's musical production will be Snow White! We've been holding auditions all this week and everyone who participated will have a role in the play! The cast list will go up first thing on Monday at camp and on the blog!

Lumberjack Friday was "Tree-rific!" We had a great time flying down our log chute.  We were able to test the strength of camp's little lumberjacks with a log dragging race.  Our log stacking skills were put to the test with jungle Jenga and we fueled all this fun with plenty of Flapjacks and maple syrup!  After all of our fun morning activities, we gathered together to put on our own Lumberjack Day Parade.  All of the groups made their own floats and marched in our parade. Everyone put in so much time and creativity, it was so much fun! Check out the pictures below and on our Facebook! to see all the campers in their floats.

Next week we will be holding the Galactic Olympics!  The activities are going to be out of this world!  Dress as an alien athlete and get excited to participate.