Princeton Week 1: Campers are Invested in their Brains!

"Investment Literacy and Stock Market Game" and "Brain Training" are off to a great start here at the Chapin School in Princeton. Our afternoon sessions may only have a handful of campers this week but they sure do bring a lot of enthusiasm and fun!


Investment Literacy started off with a general overview of the economy, the different phases and cycles, as well as key vocabulary. By Wednesday these campers are researching potential stocks and preparing for their investments when the Market opens tomorrow!

Brain training has been working hard to learn valuable study skills and engaging their minds in different academic games. They have been working hard to memorize the Presidents in order and will present this by the end of the week to the other campers!

WEDNESDAY IS WATER DAY!!! Of course this was a huge success and a great way to keep cool on this HOT HOT HOT June afternoon! The campers had an opportunity to dunk our counselor Ivan, as well as each other, in the dunk tank. We also had a water balloon toss which quickly turned into an all out water war! 

Check out of Youtube page for videos and our Flickr Page for additional photos,select Princeton 2016 Week 1 folder! Stay tuned for more excitement!

Short Hills Week 3: Brain Training

CLICK HERE for a video of a quick synopsis of what Brain Training is and how to play the Brain Card Game.

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!

Brain Training

I am very happy I am in brain training because I will learn all of the presidents - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler.  I made a lot of friends.  Brain training is the best. 


~A.B.

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.

International Ivy

In International Ivy, I took creative writing and brain training.  We wrote about memories and we made a skit.  It made my writing better and stronger.  In brain training we took a test and played games to help us memorize better and train our brains. International Ivy is fun and helpful. 

 

 

**H.Z.**

Counselor Post #10

Today in International Ivy we had a very busy day.  The children were so excited about all of their activities, and the teachers were definitely keeping them busy.  During chess they were learning new advanced terminology for the moves they were doing, such as "skewers". 

In Reading and Study Skills, the students were talking today about time management.  The teacher told them how important it is to find their best time to study instead of doing what someone else might think is best. 

In Race Car Video Game Design, they were decorating the tracks that they made.  I was surprised at how advanced the program was and how interesting it was all turning out to be.  Tomorrow they get to take home their finished games!

In movie making, the final group was filming their movie with one of their teachers.  A second teacher was with the remaining students.  They did warmup acting exercises, then read monologues, and finally got to learn how different takes of a movie get edited and how long it takes to make the final product. 

In Brain Training, they were continuing on with their challenging games, where they have to follow different patterns and make different associations based on what the instructor tells them.  During class, our counselor Jaimee was interviewing some of the students as well to see what their opinions were of their different classes. 

Please remember to wear your International Ivy shirts tomorrow!

I learned all the 44 presidents in Brain Training.  It may sound hard, but it is pretty easy.  Everything is fun, but in some way it is educational.  We use pictures for presidents.  For example, Lincoln, is a link shaped as "N".  

**A.L.

memorizing the presidents using pictures!