Friday of Week 3 has finally arrived, and we are all sad to see this wonderful summer of book club camp end. On this particular Friday, however, we finished in style with a packed day of activities.  We began in the Thalia Theatre with a special share time. Campers read the writing they’d been working [...]

Thursday!  Wow!  I can’t believe how fast this week has gone.  We started the day with some word games on the stage—everybody loves onomatopoeia !  After thinking up some of our favorite onomatopoeia words, we split up into groups to write a paragraph full of them!   People came up with some wild stories!  Frogs went [...]

    We started off the day with some more games in the Sharpe Theater before settling down into a circle for a unique writing exercise. Three different music pieces were played on a CD player for the campers, and we were each asked to jot down some images (or more developed prose!) that the [...]

Day Two!  Yay!   Today was a double feature: we met not one, but two authors!  The day started off with Tom Angleberger, author of   The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda.  He talked to us about and drew pictures of the different crazy characters in his books, gave an energetic workshop on origami, and then [...]

This morning, we jumped straight into some games to get to know each other,   on the main Symphony Space  stage. One of our favortite games begins with the group getting in a circle and bouncing a ball around the circle to create a story. Each camper contributes a word with each bounce to form grammatically [...]

How can it be?  Last day already!? We got started with some wonderful movement exercises with Regina Larkin, the manager of education programs at Symphony Space and  a professional dancer.  After practicing different ways that verbs, characters, and ideas could be communicated through movement, we split up into pairs.  Each pair created a short skit [...]

Wow-already Thursday! Time flies when you’re having fun! Today began with some entertaining games on the Symphony Space stage. We bounced a ball around in a a circle to each other in order to create a story. Each camper contributed a word with each bounce to form grammatically correct (yet sometimes crazy, random, and illogical!) [...]

Oh my goodness!  Is it the 3rd day of camp already?  I don’t believe it. We opened the day with a discussion of the book Wonder.  In Wonder each character works on developing their own special “precept,” a principle to live by.  Matt passed out a list of precepts, statements of principle by well known [...]