🍪Middle School Summer Camp tried cooking in our solar ovens again. This time we tried cookies! The students enjoyed eating them! While our cookies were baking in the sun, we made popsicle stick chain reactions. We saw kinetic energy and potential energy in action! The pictures show the popsicle sticks flying in the air!
Parents of K-8 Summer Camp Students: Students are taking a field trip to the Benton Public Library on Wednesday, June 28th! Drop off and pick up times remain the same.
Thompsonville CUSD #174 has the following position open for the 2023-2024 school year: High School Special Education. Please email lrobinson@tvilleschools.org to apply.
🌞Middle School Summer Camp kids harnessed the energy of the sun today! They made solar ovens out of pizza boxes! They were a success with s'mores! There was chocolate and marshmallow on a lot of faces 🍫. While we waited, we made solar prints. The students keep getting more creative with their art!
Middle School Summer Camp unveiled their tie dyed shirts Thursday! 💦They are beautiful! They were very creative and made many designs! We also made lava lamps. They looked groovy with a light behind them!☮️
Grade school summer camp read “Violet the Pilot” and learned about all the parts of an airplane. Students made paper airplanes and we measured the distance of each to see which plane traveled the farthest. ✈️ We also read “The Most Magnificent Thing” about making an invention and students brainstormed their own invention.🧠 We ended the day making art by using aluminum foil, markers, and water. 🖼️
Grade school read “Iggy Peck, Architect” and was challenged to make the strongest bridge out of popsicle sticks. (One bridge passed the weight test, another is going to need some reconstruction.) 🌉 Then, we read “Sticks”, colored popsicle drawings, and enjoyed some popsicles outside. 🌈
Yesterday grade school summer camp read “Blocks Come Out at Night” and were challenged to take turns adding a block to make the tallest building. 🌆 We also read “Everything You Need to Make a Treehouse” and students used different materials to build their dream treehouse. 🌳
Today, we read “Be a Maker”, “Lemonade For Sale”, and “Froggy’s Lemonade Stand”. Students designed a menu and sign for their lemonade stand and made some tasty lemonade. 🍋
🌈🪣Middle School Summer Camp started our tie dye today! The students worked hard at creating unique projects that they researched. I'm excited to see if their folding, banding, and coloring techniques worked! It was a very messy day, but fun!
⚗️⚛️🧪Middle School Summer Camp started the week with some "magic mixtures". We are making rock candy. It will take several days to see our results! We also made magnetic slime and experimented with neodymium magnets. The kids then made many more batches of slime to take home.
🧱Middle School Summer Camp finished up the second week with Legos! We made cars from Legos which were powered by balloons. Then we made a zip line for a Lego figure. Some Legos survived and some did not😟.
🪴Grade school students read “Seeds of Change” and “Mama Miti” and learned about Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement of planting tree seeds in Kenya. We also read “Michelle’s Garden: How First Lady Planted Seeds of Change” about Michelle Obama growing a garden at the White House. Students learned about the life cycle of plants, dug up soil to plant wildflower seeds, and measured and observed plants.🪴
In observance of Juneteenth there will not be any Summer Camp on Monday, June 19th.
Today grade school summer camp read the book “Nya’s Long Walk” and learned how water pumps work. We worked together to create a water pump. 💦 We ended the day reading “Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea” about designing a solar cooker. We then made our own solar cookers to make s’mores! They were tasty! 🍫
Yesterday grade school read “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” and learned about how windmills make electricity and pump water. Students then made their own pinwheels. We also learned about how ice cream is made, read books about ice cream, made an ice cream cone craft, and enjoyed eating ice cream!🍦
🎢 Middle School Summer Camp focused on roller coasters and gravitational force today. We looked at how g-force makes a rider feel when they are on a roller coaster. The students created their biggest challenge yet...a marble roller coaster from paper and tape! The roller coaster was a lot of work and a success!
🚢⚓️🛥️Middle School Summer Camp learned about Archimedes' principle, the physical law of buoyancy. We made aluminum foil boats and tested their ability to carry a load of pennies. Students also made boats from anything they could find. They are so creative and all of their boats floated! We had to add some cooking to our day, so we made Rice Krispie Treats!
✈️🛬🛩️Middle School Summer Camp made paper airplanes to start our second week of camp! We learned how to record multiple flights on Google Sheets and create a chart of our flights. We created airplane launchers to make our airplanes soar. The students did a great job of revising their plans to get the longest flights possible!
Grade school read “The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with Chimps” and learned about Jane Goodall and her studies of chimpanzees. 🐒 Students made tools using only 5 popsicle sticks, 5 rubber bands, and 2 plastic spoons to grab termites, like chimpanzees do. They raced to see who could catch the most termites in 15 seconds. (6 was the most!) Students also learned that chimpanzees throw stones to protect themselves. We then read “Scribble Stones” and decorated/painted stones. 🪨
Grade school read the book “If I Built a House” and built their very own design out of cardboard boxes.🏠 We then read “If I Built a School” and students drew what their dream school would look like. (A lot of students are hoping for a zipline on the playground.😂) We ended the day reading “Perfect Square”, discussing all the shapes, and making shapes with Play-Doh. 🔺🔸▪️
