Words in Action 7-2-10

Today in "Words in Action" the students debate whether reading the book of a movie or watching the movie of a book is better and which one will give you a better understanding.
As the debate begins, both sides go back and forth engaging in a ping-pong like match using strong statements and reasons to support their arguments.

What's happening on Thursday July 1

Happy First Day of July everyone!

In "The Biggest Winner" with Jamie Gabel, the students worked in groups to make a family budget with costs including rent, utilities, food etc.
Afterwards, they presented a poster that showed their monthly income, budget in percentage, things they would buy to sustain a normal living and the amount of money left over.

In Sam's class everyone has been studying organic foods and contaminants.

We are enjoying the little cooler weather this last few days.

Here you can see Norma Chinnery making sandwiches in the SAAC kitchen in the morning. Norma works in the Division of Educational Studies. Today the director, Bob Jensen and the secretary Simone Hedrington helped with lunch making. Paul Kowalcyzk and Linnea McCalla are in the background in the picture with Norma.

Tomorrow we will have chicken wraps with salsa and ranch dressing and will have peaches for dessert.

Today we had visitors from the National Summer Learning Association come for a site visit. They were Erin Ulery and Ashley Stewart.

A Volunteer's Perspective

My name is Andrew McMerty.  I have volunteered for Challenge and Champions.  Yesterday I sat in Ms. Jennifer's class.  At the beginning of the class the students, Ms. Jennifer, and I formed a "human" circle.    We began to stomp our feet and clap our hands to the beat of the song, We Will Rock You.  We incorporated our own lyrics which were: We are, we are...special!  Then, one by one, we sang out the name of each person's name in the circle, replacing "we" with their name.  For example, when it was my turn, we sang out: Andrew, Andrew is special!

"Day 7"

Today is the second day of the Challenger week. Today some of the campers are starting African drumming. This class is being taught by Mr. Sam Spence and a special guest who is helping with the class. They other specials that we have today include nutrition, jewelry making, cooking, dance, and art.  In Nutrition, campers learned that they had to exercise for 2 minutes to burn off one Hershey Kiss.

Yesterday for lunch had tortilla wraps. Today we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, ham and cheese or turkey sandwiches. Tomorrow we will have chicken caesar salad and carrots.

Today we had TWO Daily Challenge Winners....we could not pick between two excellent entries so Donte Richardson and Dennis La'Poole both won.

 Here's a picture of Ms. Jennifer in Words in Action

discussing the importance of character use in movies compared to books.

Day 6: "Team Builder Challenge"

              Today is the first day of the Challenger week, and instead of doing speacials we did a Team Builder Challenge. The name of this activity was "Hot Chocolate". The campers are split up into four teams and are given about 10  paper plates. Each team has to walk across the plates to the other side of the "cup", but they can not step into the "hot chocolate" and someone must always be touching the plates or they will be taken away. This activity builds teamwork and freindship while they are also competing against the other campers. The winners of this competition were the campers in Coach Todd's group.