Month: June 2016

Day 6- Horsing Around

Today was another day of training with day campers and I again got to help our leading activities. The first activity of the day was courtyard art, which included bubbles and chalk drawings on the porch near the dining hall. The next activity was held at Shady Circle, a circle of benches placed in the middle of a shady patch.


Here, counsellors lead campers in a couple of fun campfire style songs to provide a break in the day. Next, I got to help with the horses! The camp doesn’t have its own horses, but has partnered up with a local farm to bring in three horses every Tuesday for campers.  The different activities including petting the horses, walking around with a horse, and painting horse shoes. There was even a cute little baby horse for smaller campers. The last activity of the day I helped out with was Music and Motion. This activity includes songs, games, and  movements to relax the campers. Below is a picture of the set- up along with two Activity Directors; Seth and Sarah.


The campers had lots of fun in this activity especially. This was yet another fun day at camp!

– Fiona

Drew Day 6 Photographer

to start the day we were in a meeting after talking with Dr. McElreath. The meeting was their weekly meeting just to go over all of there many projects to see how they are all doing. After the meeting I was told how they are fixing entry ways to waverly place the shopping center and the needed photographs of the different things they are retrofitting. They sent me to take the photos it was fun but that shopping center was very confusing it took me a little to figure out where I was on the map then it was all good and when I got back the last thing I did was go with  to a rezoning meeting for one of there projects. The rezoning was more about what things are required from them in building not about where the building is.

These are the entry ways I had to photograph

Day 5- Training Time!

Today was the first day at Camp Royall where Day campers arrived. Although the camp hasn’t official started, this week is called training week for new counselors this year. Fifteen campers came from about 10-4 and were paired up with one hands-on trainer and three observing new counselors. I got to help out setting up, leading, and breaking down activities that the campers participated in throughout the day. I first helped out in the Arts & Crafts activity where campers were giving three different crafts with a Disney theme. Below is a picture of the Arts and Crafts Center.


Next, I helped with the Gym activity which helped let the campers get some exercises through walking, stretches and playing with a parachute. After lunch, I helped setting up for a Dinosaur themed evening activity, which in this case was held in the afternoon to give campers a sense of a normal day at camp. The different activities there were so creative and they included a Dino ring toss (pictured below), Dino tag, Dino chalk art, and even Dino yoga!


Then, I was allowed to go around and take pictures of the camp for my blog posts, since unfortunately I can’t take any pictures of the campers. I did find this amazing painted sign in the playground though!

-Fiona

Day 6- Straightening up

Today I got to shadow several physical therapists. I got to see several repeat patients today. One patient I saw was one that I had seen last week. She had surgery on her knee and was still trying to get full range of motion back. Once she had done her exercises and the physical therapist had stretched out the parents knee she was able to extend it fully. Once she had it fully extended she then put the sour muscles in heat in order to loosen the muscles.

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The picture that I have here is of the brace that they used when she had heat on her muscles. This allowed her to keep her leg straight and it helped her straighten her leg more on her own.