by Assistant | Jul 21, 2014
Earth Week has officially begun! Our fifth week is going to be full of wonderful activities to teach the kids how to love and care for the Earth. We began today with a craft: fuzzy caterpillar pots! Reusing the egg cartons kindly donated to our program, we cut them...
by Coordinator | Jul 18, 2014
Did you know that the phrase “hakuna matata”–immortalized in the Disney classic, The Lion King–is actually Swahili for “no worries”?? This is a little factoid that we learned yesterday as we wrapped up the week with a trip to Kenya!...
by Assistant | Jul 16, 2014
Bonsoir, Brooklyn! Today we moved over to Europe to check out what’s happening in France. We are lucky enough that our very own coordinator, Lauren, is studying the french language in grad school… plenty of French connections today! The wonderful Sandrine...
by Coordinator | Jul 15, 2014
Or “what’s up, pumpkin?” We visited our neighbors to the south today on our second trip this week! We started the afternoon by talking about Mexico and learning some Spanish. We even paired up and tried to figure out what some Spanish words mean in...
by Assistant | Jul 14, 2014
Welcome back to the 4th week of Brooklyn Summer Recreation! We hope everyone had a relaxing weekend. We kicked off our “Around the World” week with a lesson in Japanese culture. At Legion Park we learned some Japanese word. Ask your kids how to say...
by Coordinator | Jul 11, 2014
It’s hard to believe that yesterday marked the halfway point in the Brooklyn Summer Rec Program…time sure does fly when you’re having fun! We spent our last day of our Mad Scientists week talking about biology. We started the day with a discussion of...
