Our First English Camp

One activity we are certain to experience is that of an English Camp. We had the opportunity to organize and execute our very first one yesterday. It was fun! Actually there were two camps at two different schools. The theme for one was Sailing the English Sea (with pirates and buccaneers) and ours was Safari (with lots of animals represented). The CBOD group was asked if they would like to volunteer and participate. John (bless his soul) joined my group. His activity was on rotation 4 and it was called Run, Swim, Fly. The idea was to name animals in English and see if the children could tell if the animal would run, swim or fly. Part of the session was outside and involved lots of running!



My group consisted of three, including me, and we made animal masks out of paper plates, color markers and masking tape. Three animals were offered - a giraffe (Lacey) an elephant (Sherri) and a snake (yours truly). We had a vocabulary list of animal names, parts of the face and the names of the materials we used. We think the children enjoyed themselves during our rotation. They had something to take home with them too!

The students were organized into teams. Each team had a different schedule to rotate through the 5 activities planned. But we also had large group activity. Here you can see Kelly teaching them the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". They learned it easily and by the end of the session they were singing it in rounds!


Here is a photo of our final activity of the day - relay races. Of course being the wonderfully innovative group we are - ordinary running wouldn't do. So the children raced doing the leapfrog (here demonstrated by two of our volunteers), wheelbarrow running and the infamous crab crawl. It turned out to be a great day!