Tuesday: Social Rules
Welcome to our second day of overnight camp!
This morning was a windy one, but that didn’t stop many brave campers from doing their Polar Bear Plunge in pursuit of their Golden Polar Bear Award! This award goes out to the campers that are at Polar Bear dip every single day that they have at camp.
Afterwards we got together for breakfast, where we had pancakes! Yes, you read that right, pancakes and we LOVE pancakes. We then spent some time in our 2:6 groups and tidying up our cabins, before heading to Camp Wide Game.
Camp Wide Game today was Phobias! In this game, counsellors act like they are afraid of something our campers didn’t know of, and campers have to find out what that thing is in order to bring them back to our program coordinator, Juniper.
We then split into two groups to do our social skill of the day: Social Rules. In this social skill, we talked about how different social situations can have different rules that we aren’t always aware of. This can be as simple as how we ask to use the bathroom at school, but we don’t usually ask at home.
It was then time for lunch, and today we had chicken quesadillas and veggies!
After lunch we headed back to our cabins for rest hour. Here campers are encouraged to nap, read, or do any other quiet activity. This also ensures we all have enough energy for our choices for the day, which were water games, low ropes and Dungeons and Dragons. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm rolled in and we couldn’t do water games, so we switched to slime campaign, where campers get to make posters campaigning for counsellors to get slimed in Kangaroo Court!
After an exciting afternoon we spent time with our 2:6 groups, before heading to free time! Next, we enjoyed some delicious pizza for supper (a meal we were looking forward to all day)!
After supper, we played our second camp wide game of the day: Dress the Beast! In this game, two teams compete on a field to infiltrate each other’s bases, steal an item of clothing, and return to their side of the field without being tagged. The winning team is decided by the amount of clothing each “Beast” has on by the end of the game! We also were surprised by a double rainbow!
We had so much fun today and we can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow!