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  FAMILY ACTIVITIES
  Bringing the fun and engaging Y family experience right to your home!
  VIRTUAL CAMP WEEK 8: Core 4
  This week’s edition of Virtual Camp revolves around the Y’s Core 4
  values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Spread some
  positivity around your home and in your community by participating
  in our Core 4 activities! Don’t forget to share what you do with us!
  Feel free to email George Bennett: gbennett@newcanaanymca.org

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               Writing

  Free Write
  While we take this week to look at the Y’s core values of Honesty, Caring,
  Responsibility, and Respect let’s remember all the fun times we had at the Y!

  Write or draw about some of your favorite memoires you have had at the Y or the
  last memory you had at the Y!

            IMAGINATION
            CHALLENGE
  Grab your Legos and get ready to build!
  Challenge I:.
  Construct the Y logo using your Legos!
  Challenge II:
  Replicate your favorite part of the Y using your Legos!
  Nature Creation:
  Create one the Y logo using items found in your back yard!

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           Did You
           Know
  Fun Facts: Famous YMCA People

     •   Lindsay Benko was a member of the Elkhart YMCA swim team before winning
     three medals in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.
     •   Ian Crocker learned to swim at the Portland YMCA in Maine and has won 4
     medals in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.
     •   One of the most decorated Olympic swimmers, Jenny Thompson, earned 12
     medals in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and was a member of the
     Merrimack Valley YMCA when she was a kid.
     •   Janet Evans learned to swim at the YMCA, and went on to win three gold
     medals in the 1988 Olympics for swimming, and was amateur athlete of the year
     in 1989.
     •   Mark Spitz learn to swim at the Sacramento YMCA in 1958.
     •   Greg Louganis learned to dive at the YMCA and went on to win 5 medals total
     at the 1976, 1984, and 1988 Olympics.
     •   Ronald Reagan learned lifesaving skills and played the drum in the band at
     Dixon (III.) YMCA.
     •   Wilt Chamberlain was on the national YMCA champion men’s basketball team
     when he was just 16.

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           Did You
           Know
  Fun Facts: Famous YMCA People (continued)

     •   When bad weather forced him off of the baseball diamond, Frank Robinson
     was in the YMCA playing basketball.
     •   George Bush played basketball at the YMCA as a young man and later help
     found the YMCA in Midland, Texas.
     •   Christian Laettner of Duke, “The Dream Team”, and the Atlanta Hawks, and
     Cliff Robinson of the Portland Trailblazers were on the same YMCA basketball
     team.
     •   Curly Neal of the Harlem Globetrotters learned to play basketball at the
     YMCA.
     •   Aaron Spelling, TV producer, said the YMCA was his one escape from the
     streets.; the chance to be part of something—the family of the YMCA.
     •   Bob Newhart said the YMCA was a, “very important part of my childhood.”
     •   Senator Bob Kerry’s YMCA youth program leader said Kerry was a “YMCA
     rat” growing up.
     •   Vic Mitchell, world-class bridge player, was taken to the Brooklyn YMCA by a
     policeman.
     •   Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer said that the San Francisco YMCA’s

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            FUN FITNESS
            CORNER
  CORE 4 ACTIVITIES:
  This week we take a look at activities based on the YMCA’s 4 Core Values of
  Caring, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility. Below you will find one activity for
  each value. The games require teamwork and fun, but there is always an underlying
  value that should be learned throughout play. Hopefully these activities will spur
  your own ideas for learning through play. Give them a try and feel free to share
  with us!

  ONE STEP BACK (Caring)
  Supplies: a soft ball or object that can be tossed between people.

  How to Play: The object of this game is to work as a team and keep the ball from
  touching the ground as best as possible. Participants will start in a circle equally
  distant apart. One person begins with the ball and passes it to the person next to
  them, who passes the ball to the person next to them and so on.

  Every time the ball gets back to the beginning, everyone takes a step back and play
  resumes. Try and see how far apart you can get without dropping the ball. If
  someone does drop the ball, everyone steps back in to the starting position and the
  game starts over.

  Be sure to spread positivity and let participants know that it is alright to drop the
  ball or make a bad throw. Be encouraging and help each other throughout the game
  to see how far you can make it!

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            FUN FITNESS
            CORNER
  TELEPHONE (Honesty)
  Work on your honesty skills with a game of Telephone. All you need is more than 2
  people to play. One person will start the game by whispering a “secret message” to
  the person next to them. That person then whispers the secret to the person next
  to them until the secret makes it to everyone who is playing.

  When it gets to the last person, they say the secret out loud to see if the message
  stayed the same from start to finish. Be creative and have fun, tons of fun and
  laughs are sure to happen!

  SIMON SAYS (Respect)
  All you need for this game are multiple people. One person will be designated as
  “Simon.” That person will call out commands for the group to perform, such as,
  jump up and down, sit, clap, squat, run in place, etc.

  Participants who are not “Simon” are to listen and perform these commands only
  when Simon says so. If Simon says a command without the phrase “Simon says...”
  then participants should NOT perform that act.

  If Simon does not say to do something and it is done anyways, the person
  performing the act will be out. Play until there is only one winner. Take turns being
  “Simon” or try playing with no outs for endless fun. Make sure to be respectful and
  listen carefully so you know what to do without getting out!

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            FUN FITNESS
            CORNER
  TIDY TIME (Responsibility)
  Tidy Time is a great way to transform any household chore into a fun game that
  helps teach responsibility. Make picking up dirty clothes a game by playing “Laundry
  Basket Basketball” where you need to shoot your dirty clothes into the clothes bin
  before bringing it to the washing machine and shooting your clothes into the
  machine to be cleaned. Sort clothes or put away groceries as a race against time:
  give a time limit and start the clock to beat the time, or see who can perform a task
  in the fastest time.

  Organize toys by type and making sure everything has its own place. Turn
  sweeping, mopping, or vacuuming into a dance party. By turning “boring” chores
  into fun games it will show that being responsible is easy to do and can be fun,
  making it a value they’ll keep with them throughout their lives.

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           CRAFTS CORNER
           & MORE
  CARDS FOR LOCAL FRONT LINE WORKERS
  Sending a card to those people in New Canaan who are working the front lines is a
  great way to show how much we appreciate all that they are doing for us! The
  residents at Waveny Health Care are not able to spend time with their family, a
  happy picture or note would add a smile to their face. Waveny Care is not
  accepting mail at this time, please email a picture of the card or drawing to
  sclarke@waveny.org and it will be printed and given to the residents. We would
  love to see your creations so send a picture before you mail them!

  New Canaan Police Department             New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance
  174 South Ave                            182 South Ave

  New Canaan Fire Department               Walter Stewarts
  60 Main Street                           229 Elm Street

  Waveny Care Center                       AMCE Markets
  email to: sclarke@waveny.org             288 Elm Street
  Subject: NCYMCA

  MOTHER’S DAY COUPON BOOK
  Make a coupon book for your mom! Print out the graphic on the last page of this
  packet and write down coupons to show your mom how much you care about her.
  Choose from some ideas on the next page!

Choose from some coupon ideas below!

•   free hugs, anytime
•   a drawing made by me
•   a self-portrait made by me
•   snuggles
•   unlimited kisses
•   all of the toys being picked up by me
•   sweeping the floor
•   watering the plants
•   sorting the laundry
•   a day of no complaining
•   one chore/task of your choice
•   a device-free day
•   a video game-free day
•   unloading the dishwasher
•   walking the family pet
•   feeding the family pet
•   the entire house vacuumed
•   a cleaned-out garage
•   my bed made for a week without having to be asked
•   my room stays clean for a week