Office of Enrichment June 14, 2019 Week 3 Recap Week 3 of Summer at Saint Mary's Hall was our biggest week yet with more than 300 having fantastic fun!
Reading is Radical and Reading Roundup campers expanded their spelling and reading skills by practicing phonics and word families. Lessons were made even more fun through crafts, games, songs, cooking, and even puppet shows!
Artists had two fantastic options this week with Wild Watercolor Techniques and Making Movies with Mr. Underwood. I peeked in throughout the week and watched as campers' watercolor creations took shape. Watercolor can be a tricky medium, but they all mastered it beautifully. The budding cinematographers got off to a quick start producing their movie after first learning a few important basics of film and storytelling. They wrote screenplays and pitched their individual ideas to the group. After a secret ballot to decide the final screenplay, they spent two days filming before final editing on Friday. It was great to see the campers select and own their behind-the-camera or on-screen role.
Ms. Lopez worked with our youngest ballerinas in the morning before working with older dancers on conditioning and stretching for dance in the afternoon. Mr. Abrams taught the b-boys and b-girls tremendous popping and locking skills. As always, they entertained us with their dance greatness on the last day of camp!
Athletes in baseball and tennis worked with SMH coaches through all aspects of their respective games. Baseball even had an opportunity to practice their head first slides on our giant, super water slide. From our perch in the press box overlooking Lewis Field, we watched the young ninja warrior stretch, run, climb, and joust. They definitely deserved their time on the water slide Friday!
Our enrichment camps were brimming with creativity and fun this week. Whether your interest was horseback riding, archery, coding, Legos, building with cardboard boxes, geocaching, tumbling, zoo animals, the environment, playing chess, racing cars, decorating cupcakes, roller skating, or just learning how to pamper yourself, we had a camp for you!
Several times during the week, I ran into the junior geocachers with their maps in hand on their way to find buried treasure. It was great to see these young adventurers using and making their own maps. I stopped in on Mrs. Vicellio's Box It Up camp where campers were given all the cardboard boxes they could ever need to construct anything they could imagine. One day, another SMH teacher brought her puppy to school, so the campers were inspired to make him a dog house. Another day, they created arcade games and I got to play ring toss and plinko. Still in progress was the ticket booth, a crane machine, foosball, and a basketball game. I love seeing campers create and use their imagination!
New this year was Computer Coding Inventors and wow did those campers learn some great coding skills with Mrs. Fox. Perhaps the coolest project was using "Makey-Makey" machines to create the game of "Operation." They actually built the game tray, made cutouts and inserted clay pieces to model the organs, and then hooked up the circuit board and programmed the computer to make certain sounds or say certain phrases if their tweezers touched the foil sensors that lined the game tray cutouts. I was amazed at how quickly the campers learned the coding concepts that helped them make this game work.
I can't wait to see even more campers next week and all the fantastic fun that's in store! As always, thank you for entrusting your child with us. We love having each one of them with us!
Sincerely, Laura Baker and the Summer at Saint Mary's Hall Staff
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