Who said having a case of the Mondays was a bad thing??? We love Mondays! We were so excited to see all of our campers after the weekend! We wanted to refresh our memories of using a microphone, so we wrote in our Reporter’s Notebooks and recorded (using proper microphone technique) something fun we did over the weekend and/or some ways that we think we are silly. We heard some fun stories from weekend plans, and learned some pretty silly things about our campers! Thank you for sharing your good times!

Whew, what a crazy Friday! We had the Spirit class in the afternoon – congrats to our B-block on winning the Spirit stick for the day! Both of our classes have now been honored by the Spirit Man (who may or may not be a Radio Camp teacher…)

We went to the SLB studios and wrote a few things we’ve learned in Radio Camp in our notebooks. Then, some of us got to record our reflections. We got to see editing in action as Miss May clipped out our “um”s and extra spaces and made us sound like professional radio personalities!

Big Dreamers! We went back to the studio today and got a behind-the-scenes tour from Ms. Sarah. We learned how the mixing board works and got to try the faders ourselves. We looked at the differences between CD and Vinyl and got to hear our own voice played back… Except there was something funny going on – we sounded like chipmunks, teenage boys, and sleeeepy people! We saw our voices as a waveform and learned about sound waves, how eardrums work, and how a microphone captures our voices. We were SO good in the studios today that we got to visit Cloud Arbor again, where Miss May led us in a rain dance.

Today was a walk in the park… Buhl Park, that is! We headed out of Camp King and into the Children’s Museum for our first visit to The Saturday Light Brigade radio studios. Everyone got a turn on the microphone as we participated in making radio during our “live” broadcast. We talked a little bit about the studio and will surely learn more tomorrow – today, we just got our feet wet (and, later, our heads — we stopped at Cloud Arbor in the park on our way back to King!)

What a fun day! Today, we explored the art of songwriting. We wrote down what songs we like are about so we could get an idea of what we should write about. We decided a song can be about anything! Family, friends, our lives, our country, animals, things we like to do – even feet. Then we got straight to recording ourselves singing and talking about songwriting.