Day 31- 8/12/10

Last Day of SBOS 2010!

After breakfasting at the Condon and signing yearbooks, we hopped on the T to spend our final day of camp at Alewife pool for swimming, playing cards and board games, enjoying the great outdoors, and eating pizza.

Day 30-Final Show

"I Wanna Stay in Group Four"

As a part of our final performance for Final Show, we created our own lyrics as a class to reflect our summer experiences to present to friends, family and community members on the stage of the Condon!

Final Show Song: “Group 4”

To the tune of Travie McCoy’s “Billionaire”

I wanna stay in Group 4 so, so bad,

Go on all the field trips I never had

I wanna be on the cover of Campers Magazine

Smiling next to Nadia and Jemmie

[Chorus]

Oh every time I close my eyes

I see the Condon in shining lights (yeahhhh)

A different city at RYI, oh my

Our counselors better be here

When I’m in Group 5 next year

Yeah I would run Southie like Menino

Make Boston green, oh, every day summer

Pool time on my wish list

I’d be cool like Edwin and Becca

And both are so ill I can’t pick my favorite directa

Give away a few tickets like, hey camper, have this

And last but not list grant Bebo his last wish

It’s been a few months since I’ve been in this camp so

This place is sweet and I really don’t wanna go

Get it, I clean up Broadway where theres litter

And put bottles in recycling to make the streets glitter

Yeah can’t forget about who’s Boss

Everywhere I go imma rap for SBOS

[Chorus]

Oh every time I close my eyes

I see the Condon in shining lights (oh yeah)

A different city at RYI, oh my

Our counselors better be here

When I’m in Group 5 next year

Oh, ohhh, oh, ohhh, when I’m in Group 5 next year

Oh, ohhh, oh, ohhh

I’d be playing math basketball with my team

Swishing shots like Kareem

Then I’ll show you my gardening at the police station

Inspire community service across the nation

And keep Summer Civics and Science comin Harmony too, that’s what I’ll be strummin

Have a paradise pizza party for supporting each other

And for treating a fellow camper like sister or brother

So everybody I care for can feel respect

Values of safety and diversity are what I protect

Having smores going camping

I know we all have love for Southie

Go in your heart and pull out the thing

That makes you love SBOS and sing

[Chorus]

Days 28 and 29- 8/9/10

Roll On America!

After a morning wrapping up our final Summer Science and Summer Harmony lessons, we prepared for our Collaboration field trip with RYI to Roll On America, a place where we roller skated, jumped into games of laser tag, played arcade games, enjoyed snacks and pizza, and watched movies on a jumbo screen. We even participated in some dance games and relays!

The following morning, we were treated to a breakfast of orange juice and French toast, and spent the rest of the day swimming, playing in the park, making sand castles, eating lunch, and searching for crabs at Castle Island in Southie.

Mark and campers from Groups 3 and 4 caught crabs in a bucket!

Day 27- 8/6/10

Exploring the Museum of Science

Campers adopted identities as scientists, traveling from an exhibit featuring the human body to an indoor park describing the physics of playground equipment to a room with dinosaurs and fossils.

"I was picked to be a volunteer in the lightning show." - Mark, who demonstrated how positive and negative charges are involved in the creation of electric charge

Day 26- 8/5/10

Blast into Newton's Historic Past: Field Trip to the Jackson Homestead and Museum

Group 4 toured a mansion formerly home to the Jackson family that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad to lead to slave's freedom. We discovered what life was life for New England's early settlers, including what utensils they used and what songs they listened to. We learned about the abolition movement in Newton and how the Jackson family used their home as a sanctuary for slaves. We also examined the photographs, clothing, artifacts and other primary sources in the Jackson residence of the 1800s, and had the opportunity to guess what some of the utensils were.

"I went into Henry Box Brown's [a 19th century slave] box which he traveled in to get from Virginia to Philadelphia. I can fit in easily, but he was more than 6 feet tall!" -Miranda

Campers were able to get a sense of the danger of slave escape by volunteering to crawl into a reproduction of a box used by a man (Henry Box Brown) to mail himself to freedom, and try on a collar made to punish a man for trying to escape from slavery.

Day 25- 8/4/10

Love to Learn and Family Fun Night #2

After a day filled with a Math Vocabulary Flyswatter Game (in which two teams used flyswatters to slap the correct math vocabulary word answer on the chalkboard to accumulate points), swimmingin the pool, practicing our song for the Final Show, and discussing environmental justice and its role in the Southie community, we enjoyed spending time with each other playing games and eating dinner in the Condon cafeteria at our second Family Fun Night. We enjoyed Italian food, board games, and football!

Day 24- 8/3/10

RYI-SBOS Collaboration

Our friends from Roxbury Youth Initiative Camp joined us outside the Condon School for our Field Day. We traveled from station to station, playing waterballoon toss, getting face painted, shooting hoops, participating in "Red Light, Green Light," partnering up to compete in the three-legged race, and more!

"I like field day events. You get to play outside and make friends with new people. I painted Nadia!" -Miranda