First I want to apologize to anyone who’s been looking for some updates to this page since Thursday. You haven’t gotten them, have you? That’s my fault. Last week was incredibly busy. My husband’s parents have been ill, so I’ve been helping out with them; his aunt came in from Florida, and we needed some family time with her, and to handle family issues. My mom’s birthday was this past weekend, so on that side of the family we did celebrations, and i had to get ready to attend a WV department of Education Teacher Leadership Institute that started Sunday afternoon. It turns out we’re working pretty hard here at this institute, and I don’t have a lot of extra time. So . . . I’ll keep putting stuff up, and I’m sorry I haven’t gotten to this blog sooner!
Friday, June 22, was the final day of camp for the summer of 2007. Friday’s are always half day sessions, and we had a good one. The teacher facilitators asked the students to do a writing that was sort of like a combination of list poems and poetry poker. They used different colored balloons to help the campers get into groups. Then they did a final publishing craft in which they put poems written on Thursday onto rocks. They looked super cool. Campers also got to finish their tissue box covers, if they hadn’t done that completely. By the end of the morning campers helped us get everything cleaned up and put away. That was a lot of work since we were in my personal classroom and we had to get most of the furniture and fixtures moved to the center of the room since LHS will be painted this summer.
Overall camp this year went really well. Kudos to Karen Dillon, Linda McKnight and Pam Roeher for putting on a fabulous program for the students. What was wonderful is they were already having conversations that involved phrases like: NEXT YEAR . . .
One thing I definately learned is that next year if we’re going to continue blogging camp we need to have a dedicated person whose job it is to do the blogging. It turned out to be a terrific idea, but more than I could handle on my own! As evidenced by how slow I’ve been getting the last stuff put up. I promise everyone — I WILL get stuff put up this week some time! I have not forgotten!
