Post Contributed by Jocelyne Adkins, Program Director/Educator
For week 3 of our Summer Adventures Camp, our morning session students focused their attention on comic strips and superheros. Highlights with Andy Coppersmith included bringing the students' comic strip characters to life in 3D. The children also invented/became superheros and created a cube with action prompts: on each roll of the cube, the students performed the action indicated.
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| Comic strip characters in 3-D! (in progress) |
Jocelyne and Maegan's afternoon sessions focused on culture. Inspired by the children's picture book
Shi-Shi-etko by Nicola Campbell, Jocelyne's students were encouraged to think about what memories of home they would take with them if they needed to leave and couldn't return for a year. In Campbell's story, Shi-shi-etko put her memories in a memory bag given to her from her grandmother. For our project, students illustrated their own memory bags and filled them with meaningful things as a reminder of home. Students also created tryptics (a painting with 3 separate panels/divisions) that illustrate a cherished family tradition: do scroll down to see paintings depicting family pizza night, family movie night, the farmer's market, Hannukah & Shabbat!
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| Sara's completed tryptic celebrating Hannukah |
Maegan Jenkins taught the students about kite making practices from a variety of cultures and revealed how symbolism was employed in their imagery. Students then designed their own kites and enjoyed a field trip to Scoville park to fly them! On the last day of camp, Ms. Jenkins' taught the children how to make mobiles based on their own family traditions.
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| Kite Designs: Front: Sara, Sivan & Norah. Middle: Eva, Jeremiah & Emily. Back: Ms. Jenkins, Joel & Omer |
Lesson: Superhero Action Cubes / Teacher Andy Coppersmith
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| Joe's superhero action cube |
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| Jeremiah's superhero action cube |
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| Fiona and Eva as superheroes! |
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| Fiona (back view) and Eva |
Activity: "Truth or Tale" / Teacher: Jocelyne Adkins
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| Truth or Tale? From left to right: Sivan, Sara, Joel, Jeremiah and Eva |
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| Truth or Tale? From left to right: Sivan, Sara, Joel, Jeremiah and Eva |
Lesson: Memory Bags / Teacher: Jocelyne Adkins
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| Sivan |
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| Jeremiah |
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| Eva |
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| Sara |
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| Sivan |
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| Eva |
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| Jeremiah |
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| Sara |
Lesson: Tryptic of a special family tradition/ Teacher: Jocelyne Adkins
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| Sivan: Celebrating Shabbat |
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| Joel: Saturday morning at the Farmer's Market |
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| Jeremiah: Movie Night with Family ("Robots") |
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| Sivan's completed tryptic: Celebrating Shabbat |
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| Emily: Yearly Mother's Day trip to Disney World |
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| Sara: Celebrating Hannukah |
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| Norah: Family Pizza Night |
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| Norah's completed tryptic, family pizza night |
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| Jeremiah's completed tryptic, family movie night ("Robots") |
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Emily's completed tryptic, Disney World
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Lesson: Kite Designs & Field Trip to Scoville Park / Teacher: Maegan Jenkins
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| Sivan (lower right) with Omer |
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| Emily |
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| Jeremiah |
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| from left to right: Ms. Jenkins, Joel and Sara |
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| Joel and Eva |
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| Jeremiah |
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| Eva, Joel, Sivan & Norah |
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| Omer, testing the wind direction |
Activity: Origami Kite Garland / Teacher: Jocelyne Adkins
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| Sara's origami kite garland |
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| Sivan, origami kite garland in progress |
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| Eva, Jeremiah and Norah constructing their origami kite garland |
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| Joel's origami kite garland |
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| Sivan's origami kite garland |
We so enjoyed our summer campers and all the fun and creativity that took place each day! Our partnership brought to life imaginative characters and places and opportunities for storytelling, performance and making wearable art. We also ventured on field trips to the OP Conservatory, Rehm Park, Scoville Park and The Oak Park Library, taking our activities into the community. Thank you to all our students for contributing their vision, talents and enthusiasm : ) We hope you will join us again next year!
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