International Ivy Blog

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Chatham Wet Day Week 3!

Short Hills Week 3- Youngsters enjoy creative arts

There’s more to arts and crafts than just making cute pictures to hang on the refrigerator. Each time your child creates something, he or she actually sharpens important skills that they'll be able to use for the rest of their lives.

Here are some life skills being developed in our youngster program when the kids participate in arts and crafts.

Arts and crafts help develop fine motor skills.

Arts and crafts build positive self image, self esteem, confidence, and imagination.

Arts and crafts provides a positive release.

Doing arts and crafts encourage self-expression.

Arts and crafts is also good for relationship building.

Some creative projects can also breathe new life into old, discarded objects.

Making artistic choices helps learners understand more about themselves and their personality.

Ms. Sharonda and Ms. Lisa

Youngster Teachers

Caldwell Week 3: Wet Day!!

"The International Ivy Camp is one of the best camps I have ever been to. It has a lot of interesting, fun activities and classes that I would recommend for every kid my age in New Jersey. I had a blast on Halloween in July, Pajama day, wet day, and spirit day. I learned how to do makeup, animation, and even acting. There are only two words. Ivy. Awesome." -J.E.

"This camp is really cool and fun. On break time we get to go outside and have fun. We had Halloween with candy, then wet day! Even though I didn't get wet, it was fun watching everybody else get wet." S.S.

We had a great time cooling off during break with a fun water fight and dunk tank!!!

Caldwell Week 3: Fashion Comsmetics!

I love fashion cosmetics! During the week I learned about lots of cosmetics, mascara, foundation, bronzer, eye shadow, pencils, and concealer. My classmates and I are so pretty when we put on makeup. This class is the best!

I love runway modeling! We are "voguing". Voguing means to half pose and half dance to the music. We also got to model to our favorite music. It is awesome!! -A. L.

For the modeling and makeup part of camp, it is really cool! I do not know a lot about makeup, but I learned other helpful things. I learned about contouring and how to blend out. So it was a really cool experience. I want to come back next year! - S.R.

Caldwell Lego Lifeforms 1 Week 3

I like robots. I like it because I like to go fast. Then in my free time I can make other things. -A.L.

We learn many thing in the lego class. I make robots with legos and it's very fun. I take movie making in the afternoon. We learn how to make movies and use rubber to make little creations for the movie. I like that class! - S.R.

In lego- robotics we made robots. We learned about how to program a machine and do it in a system on the computer. It is fun to build different things and be creative with legos. -A.X.

In lego-robotics our fun teacher thought us how to build some fun robots. Some of the robots were called rattle snake and the inchworm. We have plenty of fun moments in lego-robotics. -B.V.

Caldwell Celebrates Halloween in July!

We all had a great time celebrating Halloween in July on Wednesday at camp! There were so many great costumes. We celebrated during break by having a piñata that the counselors created!! Everyone got a turn to hit the piñata and when it finally broke everyone ran and got their Halloween candy!!