Positivity at Chatham

This summer's mantra at International Ivy is Educate, Encourage, Empower.  This week at camp we have seen campers, teachers and counselors working together to help each other grow.  The focus has definitely been on the students and helping them to produce their best work.

Educate

In our sewing class our teacher is educating the class with new techniques with patterns and different materials.

Encourage

Our campers have been encouraging each other during break times with creative ideas and good sportsmanship.

Empower

Our students feel confident in the new skills that they learn in class to complete individual challenges. 

Later on in the week the students will get a chance to visit each others' classes for our sharing showcase.  Stay tuned for pictures and videos!

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!

Wet Day at Chatham

We had a great wet day at Chatham today! Some kids used water guns, refilling them in the bucket so that they could continuously spray other campers. Others used the 200 plus water balloons to toss at each other. The campers also enjoyed spraying the counselors, as you can se in the pictures below! Check out our flickr page to see more action shots from wet day!

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/98941311@N05/sets/72157645572001321/

Products of Handwork and Machine Sewing Workshop

Only two days into the class and these girls are already off to a great start! Today the girls at Chatham taking the Handwork and Machine Sewing Workshop finished their first project. They first got to choose the material they wanted to use, making sure the colors looked good together. Then they used a sewing pattern to choose what type of bag to make. After cutting out the pieces of the pattern, they cut the fabric into the corresponding pieces. Next they sewed it all together and voilà they had professional looking bags! Up next they will be making Denim Dop Bags! 

Short Hills Week 3 - Wet Day!!

Halloween in July at SHORT HILLS!!

                                          The counselors also joined in on the fun.

Safari Snake Tamer, Zombie, Tea Lady, Derek Jeter

         
                                                                   Mario!

                                                   Their favorite class: Minecraft!

                                                               Kimonos!

Soccer player and a baseball pitcher! 

                                                   Mommy penguin and her baby!

Brain Training is FUN!

In International Ivy I take Brain Training.  We learned the presidents.  We played games to test how skilled we were and our memory.  Brain Training has made my brain smarter.  Brain training is fun!! :)

                **H.Z.**

Brain Training

In brain training we play lots of fun games. Some of the games I liked the best were number tilt, acts and learning the first 10 presidents' last names.  I can say them all. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison and Tyler.  It's a little confusing but it is fun.  The best thing I've done so far is arrow colors, where you need to say the color of arrows as fast as you can for like 3 lines.

From,
         N.S.

Break Time!

Today we had "wet day".  Everyone got a water gun.  Then we started spraying each other!  Everyone was drenched at the end.  The fun had to come to an end!

~SB