Half Season Garinim (5th Graders)
Garinim session dates: June 12 - July 9, 2012- Garinim fee: $3,795
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Garinim provides a taste of Ramah for campers entering 5th grade in Fall 2012. Participants live in a cabin and make new friends from around the Midwest and even from Israel! Enthusiastic counselors guide the campers as they experience all that camp has to offer in one exciting month. Campers play sports, create art, swim and boat. They enjoy overnight trips, campwide events and fun-filled evening activities.
Here's what Mollie Flink, 2009 Garinim Division Head, had to say about the Garinim experience:
The Garinim summer is special because they get a taste of everything at camp. They get to try a little bit of everything. One of the really cool things is that instead of having a normal text class, they have a drama text class. Each group is assigned a different Biblical story about friendship and they talk about it and do role playing and acting. Then they come up with a skit about it and get the chance to perform it for the eidah. It's a really cool opportunity to learn about the Bible, but in a fun and interactive way.
Another thing that we're doing that's never been done in Garinim or in camp at all is that through the tarbut we're doing a puppet show. The theme is their own personal journey, through life, through camp, things like that. In art they're making the actual puppets. They get to build them and make them as big and intricate as they want. Then in their drama class, they get to develop the voice for their character and write a skit and act it out. At the end of the summer they'll put on the show for each other. I think it will be really cool.
My favorite part of the summer so far has just been watching the kids explore camp and watching how excited they are about everything. I'm really excited for the point at which they feel like camp belongs to them, that it's a special place for them.