Cleveland, Day Three!

The second full day of reading centers is over! At the writing center all the campers wrote letters
to their counselors. The counselors of course loved the parts talking about how tall, pretty or
buff they were, but the more telling parts talked about how the campers liked them because
they were funny, treated everybody equally, and probably worked with kids for a job because
they love kids so much. In the afternoon everybody went to Lake Farm Park, a real working
farm setup with different stations for children to learn about the animals. We learned about bees
and tasted honey, pet lots of different animals, including one particularly noisy sheep, and milked
a cow! All the kids were very excited to be able to interact so closely with the animals.

In the evening we had a special performance by a local dance company. Everyone had a great
time and the kids were an excellent audience. Afterwards they had a chance to get up and dance
with the dancers. They had obviously paid attention because they started reenacting some of
the moves from the show, as well as showing off some of their own moves. At night when the
teachers read the camp story before bed, you could hear some of the kids begging for one more
chapter! I have the feeling we'll all be begging for that at the end of this week.