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.

Welcome back, campers! Week 2 started with a conversation about friendship: What makes a good friend? How are we good friends? We wrote down our thoughts in our reporters notebooks and wrote some ideas on the board. Overall, we decided that a good friend is nice, helpful, likes to play, is respectful, doesn’t keep secrets — and of course, we are all very good friends! We then worked with our friends in groups to record our thoughts in the handy-dandy H1 recorders.

It’s hard to believe an entire week of camp is already done! We have had an amazing week. Today we got to get our hands on our smaller H1 recorders. The campers broke off into groups of 2-4 and learned how to be their own engineers and use the equipment on their own! As we suspected, they picked it up really fast and started making amazing recordings already!

We took some time to write in our reporter’s notebooks “A Time That I Achieved Something”. As we all know, there is nothing too small to be proud of. Whether it was getting on Honor Roll, winning a medal in a sport, getting lots of Promise Dollars in one day, or cheering the loudest in the morning meeting, it was exciting to hear all the things our campers are proud of. We couldn’t be more proud of them. Thank you for sharing your pride with all of us!