by Committee Member | Jul 31, 2014
Dear Parents, Now that our 2014 Summer Youth Recreation session is now over, I would like you to please take this survey in regards to what you felt about this year’s program. Running this program now for two years has been quite a challenge, but my main goal is...
by Assistant | Jul 31, 2014
Apologies for missing my last couple of blog posts! It’s been quite the past few days at Summer Rec! I’ll write about both Tuesday and Wednesday in this post. On Tuesday we had a rousing tug-of-war competition! The kids switched around teams and competed...
by Coordinator | Jul 28, 2014
We had an exciting kick-off to our final week of camp today: some yoga to get us limbered up for the coming week of games, our Summer Rec Sidewalk Chalk Photo Contest, as well as an epic couple of games of capture the flag! We started the day with some kid...
by Coordinator | Jul 25, 2014
We had a great wrap-up to Earth Week yesterday! As the kids arrived, we worked on making coffee filter Earths. We colored on coffee filters with washable markers, then sprayed down the coffee filters so that the colors would bleed. It provide quite a cool effect!...
by Assistant | Jul 23, 2014
The second field trip of the summer was a success! Today we explored different habitats at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center in Monona. We saw prairie, wetlands, and woodlands and the critters that live in each one. Here is a chart of our explorations: The most...
by Coordinator | Jul 22, 2014
On our second day of Earth Week, we talked about botany. When we started the session, no camper in the group had heard of “botany” before, but I hope that by now they can all tell you it’s the study of plants! We started the day off by talking about...
