What are the Morning and Afternoon Periods?

Instructional Swim:  Every camper has instructional swim six days per week at the pool with certified Lifeguards and WSI's. Each individual child is put into a swim group that is at his/her level and as they improve is moved to the next level.  We teach the Red Cross program.

Instructional Athletics:  For our younger campers we feel it is important for them to be exposed to all camp has to offer and therefore each is rotated by bunk to every sport. (Baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, lacrosse, archery and gymnastics).  Our older campers can sign up for the sport or sports they are interested in and are then assigned for instruction based on that information.

Recreational Swim and Athletics: In the afternoon, campers go to either a free athletic period or swim period.  Although it is written on the schedule which area is assigned campers who wish more athletic or swim time can speak to their Division Head about switching.

Wild Card:  Wild card is a list of activities that need to get taken care of each week that campers go to by bunk.  Each day the bunk is rotated to a different activity. These include:  Boating instruction, Laundry, E-mail, Canteen, Jewish Nature and Music. For campers that have signed up for Horseback riding, this is the period they go.

Electives: This is where each individual child gets to choose what they will be doing.  Each elective lasts two-days and each child chooses two electives per day. Electives include: 2 arts and crafts shops, biking, boating (recreational), ceramics, cooking, drama, guitar, Lake Elements (rave and iceberg) nature, painting and drawing, photography, pioneering/rocketry/science, pottery wheels, radio, recorder, ropes, woodshop, as well as our newest programs featuring astronomy, kinesiology and physics.

Evening Programs:  Each evening there is an age-appropriate program for every division.  Some nights the program is just for the individual division (minor) and some nights the program is created for the brother-sister division together (major). Activities include: scavenger hunts, talent shows, lip-sync contests, different game shows, spa-night, athletic tournaments, murder mystery and more.  Each week every division has a night swim scheduled.

Bunk Closure Activity: Closure is the bunks' created bedtime ritual.  The purpose is to put an ending to the day and prepare the campers to go to sleep.  Activities include story time, quiet circle games and other bunk traditions. It is a special bunk bonding time.