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Summer Program Nine Weeks: June
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Our Lunch Ticket Program, carried out at Trading Post, continues as last season! Lunches offered are turkey, bologna or cheese sandwiches, or cheese pizza, chips and juice or water. Ice cream treats, candy, snacks, and camp souvenirs are also available. Your child will need a backpack for the necessities they'll need during the day at camp: swimsuit, ear plugs, plastic bag, a change of clothes, towel, swim goggles, water bottle, snacks, a hat, a poncho (camp happens, rain or shine), bug repellant (non-aerosol, please), a pair of sneakers and sunscreen. Each of our campers' groups is privileged to raise and lower the American flag, choose three tunes for group sings and to offer the daily Opening and Closing Blessings during our Assembly periods at the beginning and end of our camp day. The famous gold Stars will be awarded on a daily basis at AM Assembly and the Super Star Camper Awards and The Super Staff Awards, given on Fridays, will also continue this summer. The most favored songs from last summer were 'The Rattlin' Bog', 'The Moose Song', 'Boom, Chicka, Boom' and of course, the camp mascot song, 'Gray Squirrel'. This summer there are sure to be new ones mixed with the favorites. The Blueberry Forest is ready and waiting for camper footsteps. August is the season for blueberry picking and our campers are just the right height for that! The muffins they make are wonderful! By the way, don't forget to try out 'Broom Hockey', new for 2007 Electives! It's fun!!! Our Overday program, complete with Evening Campfire will be held on Thursday evenings. Campers enrolled in this program will have a cook-out supper (hot dogs ~ which they cook themselves /chips/'bug juice' and watermelon). There will be another swim and a field game for these campers. After dinner, they will proceed to the Campfire Circle area, where parents, families and friends are invited to join in the fun and smore's from 7 to 8 pm. (We make the necessary adjustments for inclement weather). The campers love it when they come up as their groups and choose a tune that they lead for everyone to sing along. This year's exciting Wacky Wednesdays and Friday Festivals are listed on the top of the Elective Schedule on the back of this sheet. We will be visited by some interesting and entertaining hosts for Friday Festivals and I know there will be wonderful costumes on some of those Wacky Wednesdays. Also, please put Friday, August 3 (Week 6) on your calendar because The Camp Woodhaven Talent Show will be held that day, near or in our new pavilion in the Pine Grove. You will also see the new 'climbing wall' near there when you come for the show. Please stop by for a visit during our Open House on Saturday, April 26, from 10 am to 2 pm. Come in and meet the staff, walk the grounds and enjoy a bit of 'bug juice' and a cookie or two. We'll all be there to help with questions you and/or your camper might have. If you are a returningcamper family, you are invited too. You'll be greeted by lot of familiar smiles and we'd love to see you. If you have any questions or concerns while filling out the forms or you wish to have a personal tour, please call the camp office. 508-835-9883 THINK
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2008 ELECTIVE INDEXBasketball: Traditional game. Bean Art: Take a design, colorful beans, glue and make a great piece of art. Bocci & Stuff: Bocci, croquet, badminton, marbles and more. Bogging: Bring your old sneakers and visit Charlie’s Pond or The Lost Pond at Woodhaven. It’ll be mucky fun and scientific (biological, too). Broom Hockey: Traditional hockey played with straw brooms and tennis balls. All the running fun imaginable and you don’t need skates or padding! Capture The Flag: Traditional game. Car Wash!: Buckets of suds and sponges make for a wild and wet fun time. Bathing suits recommended for this elective. Cheerleading: Design, practice and perform your cheers at Assembly. Make your pompoms and decide what to wear for this fun elective. Clay: Pinch, roll, pummel and sculpt your item…could be a dragon or a dish or a boat or a bear... your choice! We use air-dry clay from Amherst, MA. Clowing: Face painting and mime. Cookout!: Learn what kind of wood to gather, how to build different kinds of fires and to cook something yummy to eat. Dodgeball: Traditional game. Drumming: Grab the Jembes, bongos and anything else that makes a noise and jam. Camp Woodhaven has new drums this year too! Fancy Frames: Make your own gorgeous cards with cut outs, stickers, ribbons, glue, sparkles, spangles, etc. to express yourself. Gimp 101: A real chance to work on those fancy stitches. Make a tornado or a twister! Beautiful colors make this a great walk-about art! Golf: Try your hand at golf! Special cut-down clubs. See what you have to do make a putt and experience this ancient, interesting game... Camp Woodhaven style! H2O Party: A Woodhaven favorite! Water games galore! Relays, H2O Volleyball and more. Kickball: Traditional Game. Lawn Games: Croquette, Bocci, Sandlot Golf, Jarts, Tag, Statue, Badminton, Relays and more. On Monday, with staff guidance, campers design what they want to have happen each day. They consider the weather and resources and the fun begins! Leather: Design your piece, use a beveler, slicker, the stamps with a mallet, finishing with your choice of dye color and polish will give you a great key fob or wristband! You are the artist! Parachute Games: Get out the balls and that giant wonderful parachute and fun just simply begins. This activity is sure to bring smiles and giggles. Pirate Maps: Scorched edged parchment paper, quill pens, special inks. Ahoy, mates! Pony Beads: Gleaming colors, transparent and translucent, lots of them! Activities will go from stringing them to making wristbands, headbands and key fobs on a loom. Prints: Print on paper, fabric, cardstock. Positives, negatives, paint and rubbings will all play into this elective. Puppets: Use bags, boxes, sox, yarn, buttons, etc. to make great critters. Quilling: Snowflakes, animals, even your name can be make from this colonial art. Paper curls of all sizes and shapes with all the colors of the rainbow. Relays: Over the line, waddle through the cones, climb the wall, scoot through the tunnel and more! This group will design their courses and then have fun running them! Sandcastles: Sticks and stones and piles of sand turn into moats, castles, draw bridges, roads, ditches, flying flags and anything your imagination can come up with and your hands can do! Scavengers: Decide which day you will do the Blueberry Forest Trail, Charlie’s Pond, The Lost Pond and The Old Tree Trail! Fill your water bottle, retie your sneakers, put on your bug repellant and grab your hat! There may be a treasure! Secret Codes: A favorite! Includes authentic CIA Codes used during the Civil War, riddles, clues, maps and mysterious envelopes to open. All of Woodhaven could be included in these journeys! Sidewalk Fun: Chalk drawings, jump ropes, jacks, Chinese jump rope, marbles, hopscotch, 4 square and ga-ga! The group chooses their favorites…..let the play begin! Soccer: Traditional game. Stick Art: A shingle, some glue and sticks can come to be an amazing sign! It’ll look like it’s ancient! And you get to choose what it says! Could be your name! Tenniball: Traditional baseball with tennis balls and racquets. Thumbprints: Fun making your fingerprints into art on fabric and paper. Trekkers: Fill your water bottle, retie your sneakers, put on your bug repellant, grab your hat and you’re off hiking to see nature at it’s best! Ultimate Frisbee: New-age game rules! Let ‘er fly!! Volleyball: Traditional game or beach ball. You decide! Weaving: Pretty colors and interesting textures make beautiful take-homes. Wood Art: Build a ‘thing”, paint a plaque! Hands-on fun! Woodhaven Review: Campers ferret out the highlights from the summer, borrow staff shirts, write a skit that teases the staff and ham it up! Closed house production-campers & staff only! It’s a hoot! Yarn
Art: Clear contact paper, colorful yarn and a pattern
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2008 Dates and Hours of OperationNine Weeks: June 23 - August 22, 2008HOURS: Extended Day Available from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Price Schedule
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Leaders in Training ProgramThe Leaders in Training program is for 13-15 year old boys and girls. This group is limited to a small number of students and requires them to attend a minimum of 8 of the 9 weeks of camp. If LITs attend all nine weeks, they will receive a certificate that says they "completed" the LIT program. If they take off a week, the certificate will say that they "participated" in the LIT program. The LIT’s learn safety, child development, first aid, and teambuilding. Participation in this program looks very good on their resume and on applications for scholarships. They are expected to work hard and participate along with the campers in their assigned group. Our LIT’s provide much of the energy and spirit that makes camp exiting for our campers. We appreciate them so much for that! They have a big responsibility as a role model to the younger campers. The total program fee is $900 for nine weeks. The cost is the same whether you take a week off or not. There is no early-bird discount for LIT Program. |
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Extended
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Thursday
Overday 
Additional
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