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| Oceanside graduates are just adorable! |
While we were sad to see the school year come to a close, everybody
was bursting with excitement to start the summer. After a great Mini Camp
session, our full summer Camp kicked off to an amazing start!
We started off our summer by getting to know our new friends
and learning all about how much fun camp can be. Everyone had a great time
making beautiful art projects, playing on our playgrounds, and singing camp
songs! We all had so much fun, we couldn’t wait to see what was in store for us
for the July 4th Celebration week, we just knew it was going to be
great…
And great it was!
Over in Oceanside, our littlest campers had a great time
meeting new friends and getting to know their counselors. In art, we took seashells and made beautiful
picture frames to bring home to our families. We also got to bring home plants
after planting in our classroom terrariums; we are so excited to watch them
grow!
Our Oceanside kids also had the best time swimming in the
pool with our counselors and friends. What a perfect way to cool down in this
summer heat! Our favorite part of the week though was celebrating Independence
Day with a special “All American Dessert” for snack. We each got a delicious
piece of pound cake that we covered with red strawberries, blue blueberries,
and white whipped cream… yum!
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| Oceanside loves swimming in the pool! |
In Merrick/Bellmore, we also kept cool during this hot summer by
hitting the pool at Newbridge Park. Everyone practiced their swimming skills
and played with loads of water toys, but all agreed that the most fun was
splashing our counselors!
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| Our littlest Merrick/Bellmore campers played in water sensory tables |
July 4th was celebrated in Merrick by making red,
white, and blue patriotic frames and flags. We also had a yummy American
dessert of pie filled with strawberries, blueberries, and vanilla ice cream! We
even rounded off our week with a great Fourth of July Dance Off contest!!
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| Long Beach at the HKC pool! |
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| Merrick on the Train! |
Also in Long Beach this week, a patriotic twist was placed on all of our camp activities. Our art period took us outside so we could get really messy making our own fireworks by flicking bright colored paint onto black paper (Jackson Pollack would be proud)! During out Little Chefs activity, we made edible sparklers by covering pretzel rods in vanilla frosting and rolling them in red, white and blue sprinkles. Who knew sparklers could be so yummy?!
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| One of our great Sparkler Paintings! |
Our Long Beach kids
also took a trip to our garden to talk about fruits and vegetables. We noticed
that the weather was really hot and decided our plants must be extra thirsty,
so we made sure to give them lots of water to help them through this heat!
Afterwards, we came indoors and put some of our favorite fruit – strawberries
and blueberries – over vanilla ice cream for a 4th of July dessert.
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| Planting in our Garden in Long Beach |
Even music and Shabbat were patriotic this week in Long
Beach. During music time we sang songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “I’m
Proud to be an American.” Then, on Shabbat, we used red, white and blue food
coloring in our cream cheese to spread on our challah!
As you can see, we’re off to a great start in Camp this
summer. We can’t wait to see all of the fun things that are in store for us
these next few weeks. You can keep track of all of the fun on both our Early Childhood and Friedberg JCC Family of Camps Facebook pages, and you can find
hundreds of photos on our Bunk 1 website!
Happy Camping Everyone!
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