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In our Anatomy and Surgical Techniques class this week, we dove head-first into the exciting field of medicine! We are exploring the parts of the body, brain function, and surgical techniques. Yesterday, students learned the parts of the brain through an interactive craft. Under the guidance of instructors, the children delved into the brain’s anatomy. […]

This week at Short Hills, our NASA Journey to Outer Space class has featured a myriad of fun, engaging experiments that allows students to simulate the vastness of outer space! Students learn about forces of flight, challenges of space travel, and much, much more! Students are fascinated by an experiment involving dry ice and its […]

This week in Youngster Scratch Programming, our campers are becoming experts on the basics of coding and programming with our mini ipads. Our campers are having so much fun deigning and controlling characters in their programs. This week in Stop Action Animation, our campers are getting the chance to make their very own stop action […]

Cheeky, beaming, and laughing, are the words that sum up the campers’ faces when finding out that they will be on a scavenger hunt, playing Minecraft, or simply learning how to code the Lego blocks into the program. In the Youngsters Left Brain Mix, the campers surprised the teachers, counselors, and the site director with […]

It may only be Monday but week 5 is in full swing! We have so many new classes at Chatham this week such as Middle School MBA, Youngsters: Shoe Box Theater, and last but not least Fashion Design! We are so excited to see this class in action at Chatham after hearing so many good […]

Today in CrazyChem works, our campers did an activity where they test which glue works the best. Campers were given 3 different glue types to test out on a popsicle stick. The campers tested each glue by gluing either paper or plastic to the popsicle stick and observing how effective the glue was. This week […]

Another week, another theme Thursday! This week is Halloween! Seeing each camper come out of their cars in their costumes was so exciting. We listened to fun songs like the Monster Mash and Thriller! I may be biased but I have to say Halloween may be one of Chatham’s favorite Theme Thursdays as the staff […]

Today was Halloween day here at Short Hills and the campers came dressed in their Halloween best! We had witches, video game characters, and a variety of other costumes. This writer can say with absolute certainty that the winner amongst the staff was a camper who came in counselor costume! She was so convincing we […]

While most people associate Halloween with chilly nights and falling leaves, our summer campers know that any time of year is perfect for celebrating this ghoulishly delightful holiday. The campers all dressed up in a wide variety of costumes, ranging from a zombie to Harry Potter. Now, let’s talk about the highlight of our Halloween […]

This week in Somerset. Campers took kitchen chemistry which mixes in the sciences of food into cooking .Making it not just a fun activity but a learning experience. Campers made cloud bread through which they were taught how the yeast easts up the sugar making the bread rise. Campers made layers of earth using Oreo’s […]