Thursday's email:

"We began our day with  an exciting visit to the Water Works exhibit.  We observed the inner workings of the Archimedes Screw, and studied the trajectory of a water gun as droplets flew through the air.  Then it was back to the classroom!

Armed with toothpicks and other tools of the trade, we launched an exciting excavation of the Toll House variety--excavating chocolate chips from a hard cookie bed that is. We learned about how fossils are excavated and what kinds of tools might be found in the average paleontologists’ bag. Campers treated their chocolate chips as fossils, and just like fossils, they, reluctantly, collected each specimen without using their mouth.

Next we constructed mountains which tomorrow will transform into volcanic eruptions! 

Tomorrow we will learn about amber fossils by creating our own.  We will also be learning about earth quakes, volcanoes, and all nature of things that make the plates we stand on rattle, shake and roll. We will be returning to volcanoes that we began today, and wrap up with a volcano ice cream party, featuring smooth, frozen cream rather than hot bubbling magma.

P.S. Your campers also participated in composing a new camp song I won’t soon forget. Here are the lyrics so you can join in if you hear them singing it.

I had a little dino.

His name was tiny Fred.

I put him in a pond

To see if he’d turn red.

He drank up all the water,

He ate up all the fish!

And now he’s sick in bed

With a fishy belly ache!

Chorus:

Fishy, fishy, fishy.

Fishy, fishy, fishy.

Fishy, fishy, fishy.

Fishy, fishy, SPLASH!"