Summer Days 2018: Readiness and Lego Camps

For two back-to-back weeks in July, the boys were both busy with camps at school. The first week was Rory’s kindergarten readiness camp and Riley’s Animal Grossology Lego camp.

When I pulled up to SCR on Monday morning, Rory lost it. He admitted he was scared to go to camp, but nothing I said calmed him down. He walked in crying.

I did what I had to do and left him in the care of the two awesome kindergarten teachers, Allison and Jessica. I got a couple of pictures an hour or so later of a smiling boy. So grateful for that!

He didn’t cry the rest of the week and seemed to have a good time at camp. They practiced reading short stories, writing their names, recognizing letters and the sounds they make, and identifying sight words and rhyming words.

They also read a new book each day and completed an art project to go along with it. And they did lots of activities with the numbers 0-20, shapes, and patterns. Such a fun week to get him excited about kindergarten!

Riley had fun at Lego camp as well. They discussed two new animals each day, including snakes, spiders, turkeys, dragonflies, chameleons, and frogs. They also completed movable builds to go along with each animal, as well as a few art projects throughout the week.

The second week was Riley’s readiness camp. Ms. Paulin and Ms. Cobb (now Mrs. Rucker!) taught this camp, and, even though he would have preferred to stay home and play with his Legos, Riley was so happy to spend all day with his old teachers.

They spent part of each day on ELA and part on math, with snack, lunch, recess, and arts and crafts time added in as well. In ELA, they reviewed following directions, complete vs incomplete sentences, punctuation, compound words, synonyms vs antonyms, and cursive writing. In math, they reviewed even vs odd numbers, place value, greater than vs lesser than vs equal to, math facts, adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers, telling time, bar graphs, counting money, shapes, and rounding.

Only a few more days left to squeeze the most we can out of summer!