
Welcome Mini Camp 2 Campers!
Counselors are excited and ready to create MAXI fun and friendship during Mini Camp 2! Some fun statistics about this week's campers include: 50 first-time campers at GAC! 5 3-year campers
Counselors are excited and ready to create MAXI fun and friendship during Mini Camp 2! Some fun statistics about this week's campers include: 50 first-time campers at GAC! 5 3-year campers
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At camp, we spend a lot of time getting to know each other around the campfire, at meals, and while walking around camp. Many campers who were strangers to each other when they arrived at camp report feeling even closer to the cabin mates they've only known for a few weeks than they feel to school friends they've known for years. Why is that? One of the reasons is that they've had a lot of time to talk with each other. All those conversations help campers build strong friendships.
One friendship skill we practice at camp is learning to ask questions, to listen well using active listening skills, and to ask follow up questions rather than interjecting our stories and ideas right away. Questions help keep a conversation flowing and help us get to know others better. Here's Sunshine talking about why this is an important social skill our kids need to practice:
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Today at Morning Assembly, we talked about the important skill of learning to "unflip our lids" by figuring out our go-to calm down strategies for when we're feeling irritated, frustrated, annoyed, or angry with our friends. We talked about how it's important to learn how to "unflip our lids" when we're upset.
[embed]https://youtu.be/k7JT5cFazBc[/embed] Hello GAC Families! Registration for Summer 2024 is now open for returning GAC campers (and siblings) and families who were wait-listed for 2023. We cannot guarantee or hold space for your camper and registrations will be processed on a first-come first-served basis. We recommend enrolling as close to August 1 as possible and before September 16 when we open enrollment for new camp families. Some age groups in our two and three-week sessions are wait list only so be sure to check out the 2024 Dates & Rates, 2024 Availability, and contact us if you have any questions. Please enroll your camper through your My GAC Login or the Campanion app.