Miss Karen's Mission Statement

I desire to help your child love what I teach as much as I love teaching what I know. I am dedicated to providing an exciting, hands-on educational program for children grades 1-6. To accomplish my mission I intend to engage all children in the learning process through multiple educational, age appropriate pathways. Children should be permitted to experiment in science intensively and freely, without worry about a right answer. Innovation is driven by unconstrained exploration and the ability to make connections across things that may appear completely different. Kampers will have an opportunity to explore, try, succeed, and learn from their own hands-on investigations of what we are studying. My hands-on approach to learning will keep the experience fun yet educational. Children learn best by “doing.” There is no such thing as failure, only opportunities for learning.

Water Wonders

June 15- June 19, 2009
This week’s focus will be water! Explorations will include: uses of water, kinds of water found on Earth, states of water, surface tension, sink or float, water creatures, and more.
Trips to include: Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (ANERR), St. George Island State Park, SGI Lighthouse, John Gorrie Museum, Orman House Museum, and Maritime Museum.

Creature Feature

June 22- June 26, 2009
This week’s focus will be creatures! Explorations will include animal adaptations, animal habitats, protection of animals, unusual animal characteristics, water & land creatures, animal compassion, and more.
Trips to include: St. Vincent Island, Gulf Marine Specimen Lab, and Humane Society.

Nature's Novelties

June 29- July 3, 2009
This week’s focus will be unusual things in nature! Explorations will include: preserving/conserving nature, protecting the environment, what causes beach erosion, how are waves formed, how are sand dunes formed, what lives in nature that we do not see, how is paper made, and more.
Trips to include: Franklin County Landfill, Apalachicola National Forest Forestry Station, St. George Island Youth Camp with ANERR, and Salinas Park at Cape San Blas.

Fizz, Bang, Pop, WOW!

July 6- July 10, 2009
This week’s focus will be chemistry and physics! Explorations will include: experiments, experiments, experiments!, potions, concoctions, solar energy, things in motion, and more!
Trips to include: Apalachicola Regional Airport and Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science.

Special note for Fizz, Bang, Pop, WOW!
AM session for grades 1-3 will be ½ day camp M-W and full day camp Thursday (no camp Friday).
PM Session for grades 4-6 will be ½ day camp M-W and full day camp Friday (no camp Thursday).

June 17, 2009

Getting Started

Sorry the pictures are so late, we were having technical difficulties with getting the pictures uploaded. The pictures posted below are from the first day of Water Wonders. There are more to come. You can click on the slide shows below, and a pop-up for photobucket will appear. There you can find all of the pictures that I have uploaded. I am going to try to upload at least fifteen or twenty for each group each day. The camp has started out great, and everyone seems to be having a lot of fun!
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