Liam is at spy camp this week. He goes in the afternoons each day and let me just say, it is cool. The first day he came home talking about acids and bases. Yesterday they studied fingerprints and today they talked about the properties of light. Since they were talking about light they made “indoor firecrackers”. Not sure what that is, but from the enthusiasm that I saw it must have been cool. They also did this hovercraft thing where they floated in the air on this big frisbee like contraption. Again, I haven’t seen any of this; I am hearing it from Liam. They also do a lot of problem solving activities (some of which I have seen because they do them towards the end of class) and there is even some thought put into their snacks. For example, on the first day they had pretzel sticks and marshmallows so they could build stuff with their food before they ate it. The teachers are cool, too. They are two college-age men/boys who wear lab coats which Liam just thinks is awesome. The icing on the cake, however, is that the newspaper came to take pics of them yesterday at camp and a picture of Liam and two others boys made it into the paper today. He thinks he is famous. 🙂
Spy Camp
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Oh my gosh, how fun!
Man, why didn’t they have those things when we were kids? Sounds super fun!!