ECOLECLAIRE FONTAINE SUMMER 2018
features: W HY CAMP IS IMPORTANT Art, Language & Nature
MOVING MINDS Happy & Healthy
2018/ Volume 2 / Issue 8
CA L EN D A R Ecole Claire Fontaine
Fr i, 17 August, 6pm Summer Camp by the Sea Ends Mon, 20 August - Mon, 3 September School CLOSED Tue, 4 September, 9- 11:30am Tr ansition Day Wed, 5 September School Begins per Child's schedule 2 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
CO N T EN T S Summer 2018
p2 Calendar p3 Contents p4 Camar ader ie & Confidence p6
Fr iends
p8 Summer Camp! p9 Cake!
p10 Cultivating Taste p12 Ar t & Nature: Cer amics p14 In the Garden p16 Geology p18 The Summer Crew p20 Jellyfish p22 Adver tising with Community 3 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Ar ms, hands & minds connect in team building as the children move as a hive, linked together.
SUMMER CAMP CAMARADERIE & CONFIDENCE Summer
camper s make fast fr iends, let their minds wander and discover what they had not yet imagined. This is a per fect time for explor ation and exper imentation.
The
children fueled their connection and creativity in a dr um circle at ECF's fir st 4 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Family Summer
Potluck of Camp 2018 (opposite lower). Rhythmic dr umming increases concentr ation and focus, while channeling excessive ener gy and developing cooper ation, patience a self- control. Free explor ation is unleashed in dr ama and musical theater as the
children let loose the wild animals that live inside of them (opposite upper). Ar t, poetr y, reading and science, so many spor ts to play at camp... Climbing trees, soccer matches, swimming in the pools, sur fing the waves, r iding bikes and r unning around. We love summer.
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New fr iends
Explor ing 6 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Lear ning together
Creating summer
Concentr ating
Finding buddies
Catching up 7 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Treasures from the sea
A daily swim
Sur fing the waves weekly 8 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Mix butter, eggs, flour, milk & sweetener ~ bake ~ et voila, bir thday cake!
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Lear ning to make sage choices, the children begin with or ganic fr uit.
Squeezing or anges builds confidence & dexter ity.
With team effor t, fresh juice is poured into cups and sticks are added before freezing. 10 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
CULTIVATING TASTE As the children
are growing and playing in the sunshine, we ensure they receive vitamins throughout their camp days ? our war m and wonder ful chefs make sauce tomate daily, mixing pureed or ganic vegetables with fresh tomatoes. For le goรปter water melon and summer fr uits are on the menu. There is no better time to eat well than childhood when tastes are developing and bodies and minds for ming. By making their own treats, the children become invested in their health and responsibility to the group on a deeper level.
Handmade pop sickles that cool on a summer camp day are sweeter when shared. 11 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
ART and NATURE: CERAMICS Ar tist Svetlana Durel introduces the magic of shaping the natur al world with clay.
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Cer amics
classes throughout the summer have focused on the cr afting of ar t through nature. Children shape clay to resemble the cacti of a deser t, creating bees, birds & butter flies and painting with the r ainbow. Svetlana began as an ar tist at the same age as the children she has been teaching at ECF?s
Summer Camp by the Sea. ?It really shaped me as a human being.? She explains the joy in seeing the children begin to under stand the process of working with their hands, which they love. In her cer amics class they under take the creative endeavor of manipulating a soft piece of clay into a finished design. ?They tr ansfor m it into their
own,? she descr ibes the creative license the children are able to take with the designs. They push beyond what has been laid out before them. ?It?s inspir ing to me as an ar tist.? Svetlana will be retur ning to Ecole Claire Fontaine as a studio teacher in the autumn season. See you in September!
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GARDENING
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The Food Web in Our Garden
Garden creatures need sun and water ; insects and snails like to eat leaves. The plants need that same sun and water, along with nutr ients in the soil that can come from old leaves. The children see dur ing their work in the garden that all of the elements, plants and cr itter s, work together. Some big insects eat smaller insects. Wor ms eat dead leaves The children carefully tr ansplant sprouts and birds eat the wor ms. Birds from tiny pots into lar ger, or into the also dr ink the nectar of flower s, ground, so that their roots may spread. as do the bees. The cater pillar s eat leaves, which they later sleep When flower s dr y and seeds fly, we collect as many as we can to plant again. on before becoming butter flies. What do giant squash need to grow? "Soil, sunshine, water and love!"
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GEOLOGY
Dur ing
Summer Camp the children were treated to Fr iday mor ning Geology classes with Michael Lawson, Ph.D. The ECF parent is a geologist and space scientist cur rently working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labor ator y on the Mar s 2020 Rover. This summer he taught camper s about cr ystals, erosion, mountains and rocks. Gr aham cr acker s illustr ated the fitting and shifting of tectonic plates. 16 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Dr. Lawson demonstr ates and explains the phenomenon of erosion. Using magnifying glasses, the children study cr ystals and rocks. A sandbox with water becomes the dior ama of an eroding mountain for ming a reef. Érosion ? montagnes et rèvières Activité avec un bac de sable et une cruche d?eau pour expliquer comment les rèvières se forment et les montagnes disarassant pour le phenomene de l?érosion. 17 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
The SUMMER CREW
intensity of the children, ?I like when they get While permanent teachers take a well-deserved break, really focused and the campuses welcome a fresh crew of summer teachers deter mined, and then they look up at you and Many of the summer Young teacher s and star t discussing the Lego inter ns come to spend crew were fir st students they?re holding.? their summer s with the here at Ecole Claire Ashley is a master at children of the Camper Fontaine. The youngest and Abbot Kinney kids ask for alumnae creating guitar s out of campuses. This season Eloise and Nina who tissue boxes (this really we have students from make the swings go works!) with the kids. univer sities in Canada higher, higher? . ECF alumna Zoe refer s and Fr ance, the Rhode Sidoine suppor ts the to the school as an Island School of Design, children climbing trees ?oasis? . Where respect, Oberlin, the LycÊe and says, ?I like to see love and appreciation Fr ançais & Layola. them smile." He and his are taught.? Camille joined the twin sister, Maylis, were Bettie has come from children as a teacher both ECF students. Kylie the south of Fr ance for dur ing her annual break taught ar t and Paisley is the second time. ?I really before heading to the a young lover of French. love this place; it?s London School of Sar ah descr ibes the cocooning.? Economics. 18 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
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Jellyfish
Made of colored tissue paper, glue & translucent shells that shimmer in the sunshine
Projects at Ecole Claire Fontaine connect the natur al world to daily activities, creating a depth of appreciation and under standing that grow with the children. Ar t and nature inter sect by using treasures from the nearby beach. From our frequent walks, shells of clams, mussels, snails and sand dollar s make their way back to the campuses in sandy pockets. For the giant jellyfish created by the children and sister- teacher s Astr id and Emilie, the most delicate, pale shells are cr ushed to create its center. 20 ECOLE CLAIRE FONTAINE
Tissue paper in blue, green and the color of sky evoke the sea bed of the Pacific, the world's lar gest ocean and our dear neighbor. Shells are glued in place as a fr ame. The jellyfish por tr ait is hanging outside where the tr anslucent shells shimmer in the sunshine. This sandy summer will be remembered by the creations that the children linked to many of the elements that sur round them on the beach - sand, sea, shells and sun.
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