Dear YES Mag,
At the Augusta Jewish Community Center Day Camp, Augusta, Georgia,
USA, a bunch of the 9-10 year olds set out to build the Geodesic
Club House. Here are their words:
Jessie Smith (Councilor):
A few of our kids were getting restless during group time so I took
them to the art room to find something to do. The art teacher/co-director,
Mrs. Hoops, suggested the geo dome from your website. The kids jumped
at the idea almost immediately. As soon as we got the directions
the kids sat down and assigned jobs per instructions. They formed
an assembly line and worked hard at their own particular job and
as a team. Even though the geo dome fell a few times, the kids were
determined to get it together. They even fortified the joints with
masking tape to give extra support. I’m truly proud of them.
Emily S.: When we first started, we made an assembly
line. An assembly line, is a line of people who each have a certain
job to do to help put something together. So of course, we each
had a certain job to do. It was fun!!
Ben M.: We
needed six people to do the fort. The counselor Jessie helped us
with the fort. One was the tap man. If took us two days to build
the fort. It was very fun. The next day Ms. Christy told us to come
and write this.
Morgan W.: We were bored out of
our skulls in the game room. Our councilor suggested to build the
geo dome. We worked hard doing this. When we were done we took pipe
cleaners and streamers and decorated the fort. We hung a piece of
paper and wrote our group name on it. I hung most of the streamers.
Danielle, Ben, Emily, and Jackie hung most of the pipe cleaners.
Kristen was the first to get in the fort when it was finished.
Kristen H.: Well we were getting bored, so we all went
to the art room to see what we could make. We all looked for something
to do. We found a cool thing that is called club house made out
of newspaper.
Danielle P.: Other kids from our camp
tried to build it but they didn’t follow directions and messed
up. The next day those kids didn’t even come back and try it
again.
Jackie Leigh F.: It took a few times to get
the fort to stand up because the newspaper was weak, but our councilor
came up with the idea of putting tape on the joints. It was hard
but we stuck together. When we made mistakes we went back to fix
them. Everybody had a certain job of holding each pole. Everybody
was amazed when we finished, even us.
Thanks for a great project,
The kids of the AJCC Day Camp |
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