All Sites
OHHHH WE’RE HALFWAY THEREEE…that’s right! Today, July 18th marks the exact halfway through the summer as it’s Wednesday on the 4th week. Crazy how fast time flies when you’re having fun! In honor of this, I think it’s only fair that we give a recap of this epic week we’ve been having! First, we have […]
Things got messy in our 3D Art and Sculpture class! Today the campers learned how to create sculptures out of clay. This involved taking a wet piece of clay, molding it, rolling it, and shaping it into objects! The clay was at first difficult to work with, but we learned that adding water to the […]
Week 4 at Chatham is starting off right! We have so many fun classes this week including 2 classes that are both new to Ivy this year! 3D Art & Sculpture and Digital Art! Having new classes is one of our favorite parts of every summer as we get to see new activities in action! […]
Today at Short Hills, Engineering Arduino students opened their Arduino kits for the first time. Kids learned to navigate the basic operations of the Arduino boards and the computer functions associated with them. Students aim to build their own unique programs and projects with the kits. Students preparing their boards and programs. Students prepare to […]
The robotics Vex IQ class has been having a super fun week building and programming robots to solve different challenges. Students began the week by building robots that could move forward and backward between two points on the ground. As the week progressed, the students were challenged with making changes to their robots so that […]
The first Theme Thursday at Basking Ridge was Superhero Day! Campers got dressed up as their favorite heroes — from Spiderman to Indiana Jones to a member of the US military — in hopes of getting an extra Ivy Point. Some of our resourceful campers even took a spare towel or T-Shirt from their bag […]
Happy Superhero Theme Thursday! Campers spent the morning fighting crime, saving civilians, and fighting villains…or maybe just dressing up for camp and participating in epic break activities…but that’s besides the point. In the morning, we did drop off on the front lawn and played popular songs from various superhero movies and danced the morning away! […]
Campers were hard at work this week collaborating on a cornucopia of concoctions in Kitchen Chemistry! Earlier in the week, they use their skills with mixing liquids to create Co2 by combining baking soda and vinegar and watching their balloons rise! Later on in the week students tried their hand at creating lava lamps with […]
Today’s theme in Wayne is Superhero Day. The campers came in looking like a hero in their marvelous costume and were ready to avenge the day! They spent the morning coloring books or talking to their campmates about their heroic outfits. During the break, the counselor set up activities for the campers to play. Some […]