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Chatham Week 3 is heating up!! In honor of Superhero Theme Thursday we are hosting our annual Olympics to keep up the excitement! During break time, Counselors hosted games and activities where campers have the opportunity to win medals for their class/team led by a superhero that the class collectively agreed upon. Some of the […]
This week here at Chatham, we have an epic class called War and Peace! In War and Peace, campers not only work together, but use game theory to work against each other as well. Campers work in teams as nation states to simulate foreign relations seen in the real world. War and Peace is one […]
Today’s blog is brought to you by a camper that has been coming back year after year since 2018. My favorite class that I have taken is Virtual Reality! I loved that class because playing virtual reality games was really fun. In that class, I was able to design my own house and created my […]
Today was Thursday!!! And you know what that means! Theme Thursday! This week’s theme was red, white, and blue to celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday. Campers were all decked out in all sorts of clothes to represent these colors. During morning drop off, we danced to all sorts of USA themed tunes such as Born […]
Here at Chatham, Wednesday morning went a little differently than expected due to a town wide power outage. But luckily, that didn’t stop the fun here at Ivy! Campers and staff worked together to come up with solutions on how to work through the circumstances. During break time, we played hot potato in the gym, […]
One of our favorite parts of International Ivy is getting to know our new campers and staff members! Here at Chatham we had Maddie join us as a new staff member. Maddie taught Kitchen Chemistry in the morning and Chemical Engineering in the afternoon. In Kitchen Chemistry, Maddie guided campers in making strawberry jam, pizza, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]