Monday, Monday. . .

Today began another week at Kamp Kermit, but this week begins the Kamp Kermit Festival! The children are excited because the field trip for the week is Calypso Cove, a favorite of many and we end the week with a festival/cook-out. We began our week with the Summer Reading Program with the Louisville Free Public Library. Today was the last Monday that they will be with us. They are rounding up their summer and winding down the summer reading program for the year. We have enjoyed the program coming out to us every Monday and I am proud of all the children who earned their prizes for reading ten books.

We were also able to create our own festival "posters" today and the children were more detailed than I had seen them most of the summer. I was so very proud of each of them as they worked for more than an hour on their prized artwork. Several of the boys, in particular, really took some extra time on their work. There were a few boys that normally are finished in about two seconds that took the entire time to complete their work today and then even explained to each counselor what was on their paper. It was good to see them really get into what they were doing. It was originally supposed to be a clown hat but they were so detailed we were unable to make them into hats, so we just decided to create festival posters out of them instead. Tomorrow we will be working on our own clown noses to wear on Wednesday (in case you have no costume or anything to dress up in) and also a popcorn bag to hold snack in for Thursday.

We ended up the day after rest time with a few games involving our character values we have here at the YMCA. They involve colors and characters. We have been practicing these through out the summer. We were actually quite shocked at what GREAT answers we received today during one of the games. These kiddos are very smart and listening a little more than we gave them credit for.

I hope you all have a wonderful night. I will see you tomorrow morning.

Please don't forget to be at camp before 9:30am. Drop off if 7-9am. We need to get sunscreen on all the campers before we head out to Calypso Cove, Call role, take a bathroom break and load up the bus. I truly appreciate all your cooperation and helpfulness.

Thank you!