Camp art show w/pics

 

Dear Diary,

 

    This has been a very productive week.  I started my summer job Monday and had a great group of kids, two boys and 6 girls.  They had great ideas and acted on them; so different from my permanent teaching job. 

I had them make a "cone" puppet and they were to make a prop to go with it…they were very imaginative!  One of the boys made so many things I had to finally give him time guides so he wouldn’t use up all the materials.  Two of the girls had their mother there who was running all the programs voluntarily.  She is volunteering for a month.  I’d say that is some volunteer which is a good trade-off for having her two girls there for free.

During lunch and after lunch we played many games.  The contract states that we must stay with the kids all day even during lunch which isn’t bad because we eat outside and then go play kick ball or some other running games.  The kids really liked relay racing so I stood and timed them.  They loved it.

The last day of the week, I had the kids create their own display of their projects.  The week was based on 3-D sculptures and I told them the bigger the better.  They liked the idea.  The displays were magnificant for kids of this age and they really got into it.  I sent letters home to the parents for them to come and look at the displays.  The parents were blown away…made me smile.

Here are some of their projects.

This is a giant sub made from paper, plaster and styrofoam. 

This is one display.  I had the kids write about their displays, explaining their features.  Check out the puppet "gardener" and her flower…

This display was a Hawaiian theme.  The puppet is armless because she didn’t like the way the arms turned out so I told her to just go with the armless look if she so desired.  That is a coconut on the ground.  The tree was some project and the leaves took quite some time.  I love it.

This is an ipod made by a 13 yr. old.  The materials she used were paper mache, styrofoam, pipecleaners and paint.  Pretty imaginative I’d say.

This is a robin’s nest.  She made the robin from papier mache, the eggs using plaster and many natural materials.  I loved it.

I have pictures of the kids too, but I hesitate to put them on here due to the fact that I do not have permission from the parents.

Next week I have "edible" art.  That’s going to be a challenge!

 

I haven’t heard from my son yet but because of a mother’s intuition, I know he is thinking about all this.  It’s truly sad, but I am sticking to my guns.  It’s sad how a partner truly does not know what true love is. 

I pray for them both daily.

Peace,

LYB