What happened in the final week of the Noctiluna Summer Camp. An Art camp held in Vienna VA
What Happened In Summer Camp – Week 3 2021
What Happened in Summer Camp? Week 2, 2021
The second week of Noctiluna Summer Art Camp. Run in Vienna VA. Teaching art, design, critical thinking skills, and how to play and relax!
2021 Summer Camp: Week 1
When I first started running summer camps in 2012, I would run them from my home. The camps were small, and all the kids (including my own) were tiny. They were wonderful, high octane fun, but my house got a bit of a battering. I still have the paint marks on my furniture! As time …
Summer Camp 2019- The Final Week! Sob.
I’m typing this while sitting on my sofa with a cup of tea, wearing pyjamas and nursing some very sore muscles. At the beginning of every Summer I get overly excited about teaching at camp. By the end of camp I’m crawling around like a broken lizard and falling asleep at eight in the evening. …
Summer Camp – Architecture and Town Planning Week
And so the first week of this year’s Noctiluna Summer Camps is over. I had planned to write this post on Friday evening. Turns out I was suffering from the convenient amnesia that occurs each year at the beginning of camp season. I always forget just how intense this camp is for everyone – campers …
Summer Is Here! A Look At The 2019 Camp Themes
The Noctiluna summer camps are filling up rapidly, and I have started my closing dance of nervous excitement that happens like clockwork each May/June. When most other teachers are starting to exhale towards their summer break, I start frantically ordering materials, collecting found objects, meeting with my colleagues and checking my planner constantly. The planner …
Can Teach, Will Teach
Ever heard of that saying ‘He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.’ ? Thanks a lot, George Bernard Shaw. Decades later, teachers everywhere are dealing with the offshoots from that seed of discrimination you helped to plant. What would your english literature teacher have had to say about that, hmmm? Let’s change that little …
The kids are all right – Town Planners,Trend setters and Visionaries
Fact one: Vienna has a new town planning director, and she is going to focus on the town’s walkability (yay!!!). Fact two: The Vienna Patch site published an article yesterday, that includes a survey of people in Vienna. Question asked?… What is Vienna missing? Ahem, we got there first Do you remember when we did …
Week 4 of Art Camp – jetlag, the eclipse, and pizza
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What Your Kids Did at Art Camp – Week 3
I am flying to England on Sunday, so I’m writing about this week’s camp before the week is even over! I also am a little thin on photos, but I’ll update this post with more pictorial evidence later today, or you can click here. I have been very busy, and this blog post may sound …