Week 2: Mexico:

Que semana! What a week! This week through our study of Mexico we talked about colores verde, rojo y blanco while making Mexican bandera or flag and learned about its geography – montanas, costas y volcanes which made for some fun during water play! 

Campers built a canal to channel excess agua from our extremely fun bounce house and watched how chemical reaction of vinegar and baking soda modeled a volcan!

We learned about the history of the Mayan people while talking about different shapes like triangulos, circulos and  piramides. This lead to a cool conversation and acting about momias or mummies! Older campers had a great time making salt dough to design their own Mayan Hieroglyphics and for those who wanted a super challenge to create their own mystery sentence!

We also learned about luchadores – Mexican Wrestling – and campers had fun with mustaches and designing their own Lucha Libre Mascaras.

Our little ones had fun singing “La cucaracha” and making their own maracas to dance with! They also enjoyed the paracaidas de nubes or cloud parachute in the park.

The water bouncy continues to be a huge hit, but for those who want to stay dry, campers have been given art supplies to express their creativity while observing the more energetic fun!

In cooking, campers learned about different hierbas or herbs while flavoring natural palomitas or popcorn and sampled Mexican Cholocate after learning our song “Chocolate”.

Srta. Viviana lead some incredible Baile Folklorico ! It was so fun to see initially hesitant kids really get into it! It got them geared up for our first Zumba class with Sra. Elena! People, I think we have some natural talent in the group! These kids know how to shake it!!! J

A few notes:

~~I am happy to report only 2 items remained in Lost and Found (small shark swim trunks and a pink and yellow skirt). That is thanks to you all LABELING everything!

~~ This week we welcome Srta. Lenna  to our staff who will be working with the Estrellas. Lenna is a 2^nd grade teacher at ISL during the year and we are excited to have her as part of our staff this summer! (Sta. Natalie will be traveling to Colombia this month!)

~~Remember to send back Vamonos NOLA T-shirts laundered on Monday along with the towels, bedding and water bottles. Also, it would be a big help if you labeled water bottles and lunch boxes on the outside top for easy distribution. Opening lunchboxes to match kids to food isn’t very practical with Hangry little ones J Gracias!

Looking forward to another great week visiting Colombia!