Last Day of Camp

DuckyBoy had, overall, a great time at camp. The teachers did a wonderful job engaging the kids with interesting topics -- the ocean, transportation, dinosaurs, the future (with an environmental focus), and -- get this! -- ancient Greece.

Not bad for early elementary, right? Clearly they get this crowd, get their intelligence and need for sophisticated topics made understandable.

Also I think the fact that the themes were concrete and factual -- as opposed to an overall theme like "the circus," which was cute last summer and enabled those teachers to squeeze in a lot of nice projects, but is less about finding out something new (God forbid I call it "learning"!) and more of a backdrop.

Unfortunately the note I wrote to the teachers this morning didn't come out of DB's backpack -- the paper was orange and so is the backpack -- so, THANK YOU, Teachers!

We had a good bus driver and matron this summer, too. Planets in alignment or something??

And, guess what? DB says the summer teachers have told him they'll be his 2nd grade teachers. That's what I've been hoping for, from hearing about them from another Nest mom and from the brief chance I had to see them at work on Dr. Seuss Day when I read in their classroom. But I'd heard rumors that classrooms and teachers might shift around for this fall --

fingers crossed!