A Taste of Pilgrim 2011
Here is a sampling of everything from chilling on the playground, to singing songs, group games, cooperation activities and the mud pit.
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Pilgrim 2011, How do you feel loved?
This question has been on my list of potential questions all summer. Yet I never decided to test it out until this week. I think for one I was afraid of getting strange looks and the kids not having an answer. Although that did happen and at moments I felt a little dumb trying to Read More >
Pilgrim 2011, Favorite Activities
This week there were a lot of archery lovers so I decided to shadow the archery interest group one day to see what the excitement was all about. Although there were many failed attempts to hit the target, the campers still thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were able to laugh at themselves when the arrow, for Read More >
Pilgrim 2011, Why Camp?
This week I decided to change up “Why Camp?” by focusing it with a few different questions. For the ones who have been here before I wanted to know for how many years and then what keeps them coming back. For all the first timers, and there were a lot this week, I asked what Read More >
Friendship 2011, Favorite Camp Songs
Several campers while I was interviewing them about other things this week mentioned their favorite camp song. So, I decided it would be neat to take a pole by cabin and have them sing part of the camp song they chose as their favorite. Just about every cabin immediately shouted Pharaoh Pharaoh so I constructed Read More >
Friendship 2011, Favorite Activities
Favorite Activities from this week! Firsts for frog catching and just plain swimming! I love the pleasure they take in the simple things.
Friendship 2011, Why Camp?
With 6 to 8 year olds this week’s clips produced some interesting answers. My favorite part about this age group is, although they don’t say as much, nothing beats their enthusiasm. For “why camp?” it seemed a lot of campers were influenced by older brothers or sisters. What’s great is that it’s the simple things Read More >
Explorer 2011, The Bond of Love
One song we sing here contains the lyrics “we are one in the bond of love”. As I was sorting through an overwhelming number of clips to potentially include in this montage I believe I started humming this song to myself. Then as I started putting clips together I realized this could be a fitting Read More >
Explorer 2011, Ode to Baked Oatmeal
I decided to change it up and dedicate a video segment to camp food. So I began to ask campers what their favorite camp food was. I soon gave up because almost everyone answered baked oatmeal and those who didn’t all said something different that we weren’t having that week which made it impossible to Read More >