Day 7

Most days, we've been spending a lot of time just in the conference room of the administrative building at the zoo working on lesson plans and such. Today, the conference room was taken over mostly all day for meetings. So, we headed over to the Discovery Center to make camp for the day in the Oasis, a.k.a. the Macaw, room. This is the room where the1st and 2nd grade camp will hold some of their camp activities.

It was actually really nice to change scenery for a while. This room is also known as the Macaw Room because the Scarlet Macaw exhibit is right around the corner. It was quite entertaining overhearing things people would say as they walked by the exhibit, especially children. For example, "polly want a cracker" was heard more than once.

I took a photo of one of the Scarlet Macaw's today to help remind me of some of those zoogoers we oveheard and the things they said:

Today really flew by... before we knew it was 4:30 in the afternoon. We got a lot accomplished today. Some projects took quite a bit of time and work, but it was definitely worth it. For instance, my main goal for the day was to get a few activity books done. I first tackled a book for our 5-6 yr old Splash! week. Some pages are specifically for memory book time that we will give our campers each day. Since they are younger, we use some sentence starters to get them going.

Here is a little excerpt from one of those journaling pages:

Here's a shot of a few pages that are more activity based that we made for the kids to do while we might have some downtime checking them in and out for the day:

On the left hand page, it says for the camper to draw and color some food on the plate for the turtle. On the right hand page, it says to match the pictures of the animals with their names. I also added in a fun fact about each animal under its name.

Then, there are just some pages for coloring, again to do during some downtime that we may experience. This shot happens to be of the cover I made:

After I had a nice little booklet done for the Splash! week, I worked with my partner on the one for Prehistoric Pals week.

Since it was so nice out, and the fact that we all had to walk back to the administrative building to clock out for lunch... rather than just walk downstairs from the conference room, we all decided to eat our lunches outside. I have a feeling we will be doing this some more.

Another little project I did today, was making an alligator from a clothespin for a craft. Here's the little guy I finished:

After work today, I took Jeremy's dog Taylor on a walk, and then played in the backyard with her. It was  really nice out today.