June 1st and 2nd, 2015

We have had a fun and engaging first two days of summer camp at English Academia!

On Monday, the elementary students:

• played warm-up activities and ice-breakers during the morning meeting
• listened to and discussed the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus
• learned and practiced new yoga poses (the tree, the plank, and the cobra)
• watched a clip on what astronauts eat while in space and created our own astronaut pudding
• learned how to play the game Bohnanza, also commonly known as "Beans"

The elementary students are learning how to be bean farmers.

On Tuesday, the elementary students:

• played warm-up activities and ice-breakers during the morning meeting
• listened to and discussed the origin of Greek gods, starting with Chaos (the beginning of the world) all the way up to Zeus's defeat of Cronus
• learned and practiced new yoga poses (the elephant breath, the triangle, and the two towers)
• concentrated on level-specific grammar instruction (grade 1: initial and final consonants, grade 2: proper and common nouns, grade 3: main and subordinate clauses)
• made tie-dyed milk, learning that food coloring is less dense than milk, so it sits on top of the milk, but that soap reduces the surface tension of the milk by dissolving the fat molecules (the surface area of the milk has a higher surface tension, so it pull the surface away from the spot where the soap was dropped in, creating a "tie-dyed" effect)
• started our experiment on creating sun-dried raisins

Tie-Dyed milk!