Millhopper Montessori School 8505 NW 39th Avenue, GV, FL 32606 www.millhopper.com 352-375-6773 Summer Newsletter 9 June - 13 June 2014
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Weekly insight into MMS Summer Enrichment Camp 2014 In this issue: Circus Comes to Town Ms. Crystal Sorrow Island Explorers Ms. Elizabeth Falls
Science of Summer Coach Cam Parker and Mr. Richard Aslanian
Art Adventure Ms. Widline
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Circus Comes to Town Ms. Crystal Sorrow, Ms. Christina Wegner and Ms. Kyra Akay
This week was exciting times as the circus came to town. There was circus music with movement activities. Students pretended to be elephants, lions, clowns juggling, acrobats swinging, poodles dancing, and tightrope walkers balancing. Crafts with a circus theme filled our morning with creative fun. Students made sticker art, decorated clown hats, and took silly photos. New colorful works filled the shelves and students worked hard on saying goodbye to family members each morning. The circus tent in the classroom was a great place to read books! Dress up day was tons of fun on Wednesday. It was a fantastic first week at Summer Camp. Next week will be Fantasy Fun with all kinds of make believe.
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Island Adventure Ms. Elizabeth Falls and Ms. Jessica Pytko
Welcome to “Island Explorer”! We have had a great time this week! The children really seem to be enjoying their time together! It is nice to have children from all different classrooms together! The older children have been showing the younger children new work and the younger children are having fun being in an older and different classroom! We have enjoyed working with all the children and we are looking forward to being together for the next five weeks! Here are a few of the activities we enjoyed this week including making new friends! Geography and Science: We have been learning about what makes up an island and where some of the most famous islands are located in the world. In particular the children have enjoyed learning about the sea life in the ocean surrounding the islands. To end our great week, the children are looking forward to the eruption of our classroom “Island Volcano”! Music and Movement: The children had fun making musical instruments out of plastic eggs, beans and paint as well as using paper towel and toilet paper tubes! We have been singing many songs this week including: “Five Frogs Jumping on a Log”; “Alligator Stomp”, “There Once was a Puffin”, “Starbright” and “One Small Voice”; and the all-time favorite famous story/song “Puff the Magic Dragon”. For movement, the children were thrilled to do “Coconut Bowling” (using real coconuts and water bottles) and “Tropical Potato Sack” races! It was so much fun to watch the children have a wonderful time with these activities! Additional Activities including Art/Crafts this week included: Story time, push-pinning sea creatures, making ocean necklaces, “surfboard” sponge painting and decorating, beach/ocean themed “snow globes” and a “necktie” card (special gifts for Father’s Day, as well as painting on an easel painting, playing “mystery bag” with sea life and learning and working on traditional Montessori classroom activities such as Practical Life, Sensorial, Math and Language activities.
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Science of Summer Mr. Richard Aslanian and Coach Cam Parker Science of Summer is an amazing camp where you learn‌.Science, of course! This week we have been studying manatees and have learned all about their habitats and what temperature they prefer. To reward the students and to just have fun, we ALL had buckets of fun at Manatee Springs, and Westside Park, where we swam and had fun, not to mention finding shark teeth and hubs on a car wheel. We also went to Ring Park on Monday in the afternoon to go for a nice nature walk. But where we really had fun was at the UF Fisheries. It was for sure the field trip everyone was looking forward to. We went fishing and caught fish of all different sizes and found out what kind of fish they are. We had fun on all of our field trips. We are all looking forward to doing the summer Olympics next week with Coach Cam. And Mr. Richard will be doing woodworking as well.
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Art Adventures Ms. Wildine Senecharles and Ms. Kayleigh Bush
Art is a creative way that allows children to express themselves as well as explore. This week the children have been immersed into a world of color. The children learned about several great artists who made major contributions to the world of art such as: Pablo Picasso and Michelangelo. Also, the children were able to unlock the artist within them by creating art pieces such as: a Mosaic, creating a tree house, learning about symmetry, and much more. In addition, the children completed their art projects and created an art portfolio to show their collection of work.
Next Week...
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Next Week... Fantasy Fun Jungle Adventure Little Chefs Woodworking Summer Olympics
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Junior Counselors
Thank you to our volunteers! Alyssa
Lydia Hunter Caryss
Akhila working on the computers.
Arianna and Isa setting up for an activity for Science of Summer