Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!

Here at Chatham our classes have been particularly great at working as teams in classes and at break time.

Learning to work as a team strengthens not only the lessons being learned in class but friendships as well.  Yesterday we played a new game, "5-4-3-2-1" in which students are asked to spontaneously group themselves in a specific number in order to not get eliminated.  There were groups of all ages working together to problem solve and work to make sure as many children as possible could get into groups.  Here are some pictures!

Check out our flickr page here to see more pictures from the week and to see all the great things the children are working on.  

Halloween in July at Chatham

Chatham got into the spirit of Theme Thursday by wearing their Halloween costumes to camp today! Campers came dressed as sports players, a cowgirl, a zombie cheerleader, and many more. Our Minecraft teacher Dan came dressed as a Minecraft man, and some students even got to try on his costume. Also some of the female staff dressed up as Miss America contestants each representing a different state. All in all the campers looked BOO-tiful in their costumes!

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!

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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!