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Connections started off the week with a fun surprise: Dress-ups! We had a lot of fun pretending to be dragons, butterflies, knights, construction workers, good guys, bad guys, and even a dentist! We also started making an armature for our papier-mache castle-rocket! Full of tunnels and towers and entrances for the bad guys and the good guys. There were some really creative methods used to make fun effects with the water colours. Sander and Lucy had the idea to use a sponge to soak up some of the colour, and we used spray bottles to make a galaxy effect. We have also been building in Construction, painting with watercolors, and weaving with looms!  Freddie: "I'm making New York City." Lily: "There's not much green there!" Freddie: "In New York there's a lot of stuff." Noah: "I made a carousel!" We've also had a lot of fun experimenting with wet-on-wet vs. wet-on-dry watercolour techniques, and with building the armature for our papier-mache Castle-Space-Rocket.
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We are so excited to welcome new and returning Links to the Brown Room! We did a shared painting and practiced layering by adding stamps on top. We enjoyed our first Session 2 Water Day and began working with clay.
 This week, we introduced our friends to clay! We began by using our hands to explore the different sensations, feelings, and explore shaping the material. We explored multiple tools and how that changed their clay piece. We had a lot of fun playing and shaping a new medium!
Happy Friday! The Explorers had a great end to session one...The children grouted their portrait frames: Decorated and sewed together booklets: Read some books, got wet on water day and had fun in Blake Hall: We'll miss all our friends who won't be returning for session 2! And we can't wait to see everyone who will :)We are so sad that session one of camp has ended! We had so much fun playing, exploring, and LAUGHING together. We hope you have a restful weekend for our friends returning, and happy summer to all others!
 We made a tapestry together using fruit stamps and explored different colors, textures, and patterns.
 Our group has been talking a lot about the beach and water. We utilized fabrics to make our own beach at camp! Thank you Connections for a wonderful Session 1! We look forward to seeing many of you for Session 2 & 3. This week we worked with clay, wire, beads, sewing, painting, and print-making. We also built so many fabulous creations in construction! Together, we spent plenty of time outside and enjoyed getting messy on Water Days!
On Monday, we started the week off with portrait making, exploring different materials. Tuesday, we had a wonderful water day to cool off from the hot weather and made our own musical instruments for a music circle. Today, we decorated picture frames to hang up in our classroom. The Links are having a great start to the week, see everyone tomorrow! Monday
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Remember tomorrow's water day, come dressed in your water clothes :)
Hello families! We've had a great week so far.The children have worked on self portraits... Explored wool as a medium by felting... Made mosaic portrait frames... And played outside as well as in Blake hall to escape the heat! Happy Friday!Today was backwards day, so we began outside...The children had fun climbing trees, searching for bugs, and playing restaurant!  "That's a slobbery wormy-doo!" -Gus  "Pineapple is the waiter" -Emma Then we moved inside for some activities...The children made prints with jelly pads...   Carved stamps from erasers...  Continued working on our fabric collage...  Played games...  And did construction!  The Explorers had a great first week overall! We can't wait to see what they create next week.
Today the Links started the day with some paper collages. They practiced using glue, cutting paper, and using their creativity!
After, we played outside to practice our swinging and construction. Have an amazing weekend, see you Monday :)
Happy Friday!Connections had an eventful week. Jack and Henry found that there are a lot of creatures that live underneath rocks and in the soil, and their discovery of two teeny tiny snails captivated the whole group, opening up a lot of discussion about insects, bugs, and other animals. We had the chance to try and draw our favorite animals in oil pastels earlier in the week, and on Friday we even got to see a real-life bug collection and used the light table to inspect what some insects look like on the inside. Then we used water colors to paint our favorite insects. There was also quite a bit of building that went on in the construction area, including a whole zoo and a tall tower. Legos allowed us to make rocketships, boats, and spaceships completely from our imagination.  "It's a living being so we have to take care of it and make sure it doesn't get squished" - Henry "That one has a smaller shell than this one" - Dru  "We're making a machine to suck up all the bugs!" - Finley & Theo  "Did you enjoy your Japanese Beach Salad?" - Mark "I made a roast beet salad! The secret ingredients are banana, sugar, salt, and tomato" - Sander "I can make so many smoothies" - Susan "There are so many parts!" - Jake "I'm drawing a Ladybug, just like the one that got into my room" - Elizabeth |
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