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Here at Chatham, we take Theme Thursday super serious. And we couldn’t have been more excited when we found out that our first Thursday of the summer was Sports Day!! Campers dressed up in all types of jerseys, shirts, and other gear. We saw so many sports represented such as football, soccer, baseball, and even […]
This week in Chatham we have chemical engineering! In chemical engineering, the students combine different materials to create something new! Today, the students were making bouncy balls! They made these bouncy balls by combining glue, borax, and water. Campers were experimenting on the ratio of their ingredients to see what made their ball the bounciest. […]
BOOM! A cloudy day quickly turned to a torrential downpour at Short Hills, ushering in the first day of camp with a bang! Some campers, of course, didn’t mind running to and from their parents’ cars during pick up and drop off — but for the rest, there was plenty of room under our Site […]
Today was one for the books! In the Pm we greeted our afternoon campers still dressed in our decades garb. At break time we had the annual pie in the face of the staff. This was followed by the wet day showdown complete with water balloons and water shooters! We all had so much fun […]
Although it is our last week of camp, the youngest campers at Somerset are working harder than ever in Youngster Engineering Exploration and Youngster Chemistry Experiments with their teacher, Kenny. During the week, our engineers have been completing hands-on projects including bridges, ziplines, recycled bottle cars, and shoebox foosball games. In addition, students have been […]
Decades Day is always packed with tons of fun! Because of that, you get two times the blogs today! We started our morning with an early morning Decades Dance party on the front lawn of Chatham Day. The counselors then tie dyed the shirts for campers this morning. We had a water balloon toss to […]
This week in Chatham, we have two of the most extraordinary and best teachers in all of International Ivy… Olivia and Jonathan! Olivia is a true entrepreneur at heart and is teaching Ice Cream entrepreneurship in the morning and in the afternoon channels her inner Barbara Corcoran as she teaches Shark Tank! Olivia was […]
While the week may be coming to a close, that doesn’t mean that we’re letting off the gas here in Chatham, as today, our heroes in training got to participate in a superhero themed scavenger hunt! Each team was equipped with an iPad and was tasked with hunting down various heroes throughout the building like […]
As you all know, we LOVE Theme Thursday here in Chatham, this week was no exception as it was one of our favorites, Superhero week! The day started off with a BANG when all of our campers showed up in their superhero attire! As the day moved on, our heroes in training got to participate […]
As we approach the halfway mark for Week 8, we wanted to highlight one of our favorite classes here at International Ivy, Programming with Scratch! Programming with scratch may be one of our oldest classes but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a whole heap of fun! This week, our coders have created all sorts of […]