Birthdays, Wacky Hair and Hats!

Greetings from Chatham!  We loved our second Theme Thursday of the summer, which was wacky hair and hat day.

We also had our first birthday celebration of the summer for one of our Youngsters.  We are really working on building a sense of community within the camp and making friends between classes.  

We have our sharing showcase tomorrow and we will have the opportunity to check out each others' classes.  Check back tomorrow for a link to some videos from our showcase!  Until then, click here to see our week two album from Chatham.  

Cheers, 

Kalyna, Colleen, Jon and Mary Claire 

Week One at Chatham

Greetings from Chatham!

This week has flown by!  It has been great to see both returning and brand new campers have such an amazing week.  

Today we had some exciting break times.  This morning we played a kickball tournament for ivy points and to continue working on team building skills.  

During the afternoon break time we were able to enjoy the gorgeous weather to buy lemonade from out Lemonade Stand class.  All of the students were able to discuss the future businesses that they want to start and how this class has helped them.  

In order to see some more pictures of all the great things our campers have done this week, please visit our flickr account here.  Happy camping!

Having a Great Monday at Chatham!

Week 2 is off to a great start at Chatham! We have some new campers as well as some familiar faces from last week! During morning break, we played name games and each camper got to share interesting facts about themselves!

We are looking forward to having a great second week! Students will take part in classes such as Shark Tank, Minecraft, Robotics, Machinework, Chess, as well as many more exciting classes! Stay tuned for more blog posts and pictures from all of us over in Chatham!

Spontaneous Short Story Writing - By T.P., A.C., and E.W.

On a hot summer day a pig was taking a bubble bath, when suddenly one bubble began to grow in the air. Inside the bubble was a pig fairy. The pig fairy said she will grant the pig three wishes. The pig's first wish was a refrigerator full of ice cream. He was amazed and for his second wish he said he wanted some cool clothes. When he went to his room and looked in his closet he has the world's most amazing clothes ever including designer sunglasses. His third wish was for 1,000 more wishes. He wanted another fairy to grant him double the wished. This way he can share his present with his best friend Ralph. The second fairy said if you get too greedy we'll take away all of your wishes but we will lay a curse on you. And you'll have a rooster head, frog legs, and a horse body. But the pig forgot about what the second fairy pig said and for too greedy. One night when he was sleeping on his new king sized bed, surrounded by toys, and right next to a huge flat-screen TV, he felt something weird tingling in his body. And he started to cough up feathers. When he woke up he found out that is was just a dream. The end!

Chatham Week 2 Video

We had another fun and exciting week at the Chatham Day School campus!  Our classes were able to both learn and create many new things.  Our Youtube video for week 2 is up!  Please click here.

Chatham Week 1 Youtube Link

You can see a wonderful video made by our counselor, Chloe, about all of the wonderful classes from Week 1.  You can click on the Youtube link here.


Keep checking back for more videos and pictures!

Chatham Counselor Post

Week One went by so fast!  We had so much fun with our group of campers.  I have to say how proud I am of them of all the hard work they did and how much they did, and I am also so proud of their good behavior!  I heard "please" and "thank you" from every camper, and so many of the kids were such good helpers!

Here are some pictures from each class we had last week.

Acting for TV/Film

Acting Exercises

Watching their final presentation.  Thank you to our parents for coming!







Brain Training





Learning new techniques for memorization.




Mad Science

Learning about dry ice.

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Writing

 

 Creating 3D characters to write stories about

 

Minecraft

Creating minecraft games and doing the Hunger Games challenge.


Detective Spy Lab

Learning about fingerprinting



Robotics

 

 

 

Video Game Creation

 Learning how to create different challenges for their video games.

 

 

Vocal Techniques

Learning the "Cups" song.



Youngster Program