Thursday, May 31, 2012

Last but not least - Vive la France




Paris absolutely mesmerized us with it's beauty. Cherry on top being magnificent Eiffel Tower dominating the skyline of  the "city of lights" - called that not only due to lights but also due to the number of intellectuals living in the city. We also learned about Marseille, Lyon and Nice.

The dancing was not as upbeat as other dances but we enjoyed it anyway. We danced to the "Sur le pont d'Avignon". Anoushka and Akshata sang the song L'arraignee Gypsy and impressed everyone.

In interesting facts, we marveled at the speeds of TGV and compared the timings of TGV to Indian trains - just to understand how fast they really are, not to point out how slow the Indians trains are :). The next amazing fact was the number of cheeses found in France. Over 1000 types of cheeses - 400 types of French kind! Cheese vans are very much a cheese heaven.

Games were all about pantomime - not an easy art indeed as kids learned but a great learning tool when exploring the possibilities of communication. We learned we need to be very precise with what we try to communicate via pantomime.

Kids created some amazing crafts that will remind them of things we learned about France through fun and games. Just learning and researching about France makes you want to visit it as soon as possible.
Beautiful and very French craft :)
Sur le pont d'Avignon on y danse, touse en rond...
Who's hungry? :)
P.S. I was tempted to put only: "Who  thinks this is the best summer camp ever?" ;)
We bid goodbye to France and thus our second summer camp came to an end. We all enjoyed it a lot. It was fun making it fun for kids.

See you all next year!

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