A to Zee Summer Camps!
Read on for full details:
1. Sat April 20: A to Zee Astronomy overnight camp
2. Mon April 22 – Fri April 26: Those maginificent flying machines!
(Ages 7-13, 2.30 - 5pm; final day at beach house so 7pm pick up.
3. Mon April 29 – Fri May 3: DOLLS DOLLS DOLLS! (2.30-4.30pm)
4. Mon 6 May - 10 May: WHAT A RACKET! (3-5pm)
5. 29 April - 10 May: RIO-themed dancing, singing, acting workshop at Hippocampus
6. 13 May - 17 May: MAD ABOUT DRAMA! (10am-1pm) Rs.5000
(Meant for older children / teenagers)
7. 13 May
– 17 May (Mon-Fri, 2.30-5pm): Junk Art. Re-use, recycle is one of our mantras…so let’s create from
junk! All ages - varying levels of difficulty possible.
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1.
Saturday April 20th, 2013
The very first A to Zee Overnight camp
(only
for children we already know – we cannot take a chance with children we don’t
know)
Astronomy
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves...."
Maximum: 10 children, Ages 8 – 13
Time: 5.30pm Saturday April 20th
– 11am Sunday April 21st
5.30pm: Drop off with sleeping
bag, pyjamas, tooth brush, change of clothes, torch, mini telescope if you have
one. We have one large telescope.
6pm: The children will watch a
presentation and learn about the stars, the constellations, and we will have a
short group quiz on these. All led by an expert Physicist Dr.Jim Libby.
7pm: Dinner: burgers – veg and non veg with fries (sorry),
salad, and lemon tarts/brownies
7.45pm: Mosquito repellant and a silent trip to the terrace with five
adults in tow…setting up telescopes and viewing the stars. We will spread mats
out for those who wish to lie flat and view them.
8.30pm: Back to the A to Zee
space, dancing to Thriller - complete with wolf howls…
9pm: queue for the bathroom –
changing into pyjamas, laying out sleeping bags inside the room with the AC on
(luxury camping) - there will be a maid outside on the verandah (poor soul) - beneath a mosquito net...others wanting to attempt sleeping beneath the stars under tents or mosquito net tents - please bring them and do so.
9.30pm: Movie time – film title tbc
11pm: Water for those who want it
/ Lights out
Please
do not worry - we will be sleeping in the bedroom beside the children on the
same floor as them. All your telephone numbers will be up on at least 3
tackboards in case we need to contact you.
8am: Chocolate milk, brush teeth,
sit around the table for breakfast cereal, omelettes, sausages, toast, jam,
marmalade, fruit….
8.30am: Queue for the bathroom –
quick showers if desired – else change of clothes.
9.30am: Astronomy-related board
games – and others. Writing down their experiences and which stars they
spotted.
11am: Home time with individual
charts of the constellations to put on their bedroom walls.
Cost:
Rs.2000
2.
Monday April 22nd – Friday April 26th
Those incredible flying machines! (Ages
7 – 13)
2.30-5.00pm
(final day including beach trip would be 2 – 7pm)
Aeroplanes, kites, boomerangs, parachtes, and all things
inbetween that are airborne is our theme. We will chart the history and
evolution of flying machines from the Wright brothers to today’s supersonic
aircrafts and rockets. Our A to Zee art expert will be guiding the children in
making their very own different flying
machine each day.
We plan to fly the kites on the beach on the last day
of the camp…most likely at our beach house in Kovalam if that is alright by the
parents. Also one field trip to the Science Museum in Guindy to the aircraft
section is in the plan – they have some excellent displays. Snack included each day.
Cost including materials and
field trips: Rs.4000
4.
Monday April 29 – Friday May 10th
: A to Zee Creativity will visit
Hippocampus to present a RIO-themed theatre and movement camp. For full details
please contact: Hippocampus Library for Children in partnership with the Geothe
Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan – Chennai
10am – 12.30pm
Old No.4, New No.11, 3rd Avenue,
Indiranagar, Adyar, Chennai – 20, o44 24433544 /42116417
5.
Monday
April 29 – Friday May 3rd 2013:
Dolls! (2.30-4.30pm)
For all the little girls and boys who enjoy making things - we will be making paper
dolls - fairies, pirates, kings and queens, and princesses of course!
You could also bring in your favourite paper dolls, and we will make lots of tiny
clothes to fit. We will also help make a cardboard dolls house/ship for each child to
take home. Our A to Zee art expert will help you create dolls house furniture
and to create and cut out paper dolls, and make clothes for them that you can
cut out and colour or paint. Snack included each day.
Bring with you: Cardboard boxes of
different shapes and sizes for the dolls house. Several shoe boxes would be
ideal, and even little boxes like toothpaste boxes, empty matchboxes, etc. Start
collecting now!
Cost: Rs.4000
6.
Monday
May 6th – Friday May 10th 2013: What a racket! (3-5pm)
For lots of singing and dancing…we will
have the little ones singing lots of Animal-related children’s songs, while our
A to Zee dance choreographers will get them all having a blast dancing
freestyle with lots of leaping, hopping, slithering, kicking, and wiggling thrown
in for good measure !
Cost: Rs.4000
