Camp Yakety Yak's Blog

"I am happy we earned 25 points for community helping. We got a doughnut party. We practiced being kind by making awards for all of us. I was a good peer model and kind by making a award for Bex and other one for N*. I was happy that I got a award from N*." -A Photos around camp:

Assembly is always a good place to highlight the items in the lost and found box. We still h ave a lot of unclaimed goods, so be sure to stop by on Friday. There was another appearance by Jeff the Sock Puppet, thanks to Diego. Jeff and Jeremy had a great discussion on what it means to be nice and be a good friend. The Afternoon Assembly was full of great jokes, wonderful talents and songs. Cooking Disgust's sunbutter honey banana quesadilla, learning more about tongue/tastebu

Morning Assembly is always a good place to highlight the items in the lost and found box. We still have a lot of unclaimed goods, so be sure to stop by on Friday. There was another appearance by Jeff the Sock Puppet, thanks to Diego. Jeff and Jeremy had a great discussion on different ways to calm down. The Afternoon Assembly was full of great jokes, wonderful talents and more practice...Join us for the End of Camp Celebration to see what we've been working on... Cooking Disg

"This is what the campers did at Yakety Yak Play Class today. The campers were paying hard and trying their best in a grab-and-run type game. The kid playing as the tagger did especially well and looked to have a lot of fun." -R [Video coming soon] Photos around camp:

"The JCCs are camper counselors that help the campers know how to lead in the community and at home. We help with projects and assembly and we take photos of the campers working together as a team in camp and outdoors. Campers are people that deserve to be treated with respect, care and kindness. JCC’s are people that deserve to be treated with respect, care and kindness. The staff should be treated with respect, care and kindness. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect

Assembly Rick started the day with an interactive movement story, Herbie the Family Pet. Jeremy the puppet demonstrated interrupting a conversation. Afternoon did the llama song, had a yak Back update from the JCCs, and a cup stacking challenge. Yak Academy Ignoring distractions/maintaining focus while doing a task learning, Activity: editing/finalizing movies with names and title + adding music, work on take-home momento from class Cooking class made "Joy's mango strawberry

Assembly Rick started the day with an interactive movement story, Herbie the Family Pet. Jeremy interrupted conversation Afternoon did the llama song, had a camp wide Yak Back update by the JCCs, and a cup stacking challenge. Note to reader: we had an issue with the church internet today, more photos will be posted soon. Cooking class made "Joy's mango strawberry friendship smoothie", learning more about tongue/taste buds (sweet tastebuds), campers combine 2 layers of smoothi

GamesFocus for the day is competing as an individual against others and yourself. Since campers compete as individuals there is waiting involved so the goals were to take turns and help. These were invidula field events: 1) Shot Put 2) Shuttle Run 3) Broad Jump 4) Sprint Campers took turns measuring and recording the results of other competitors.Assembly started with examples of conversations. Why do some conversations work better than others? Cooking class made Corn Dog Muff

Assembly started with examples of conversations. Campers identified what makes a good conversation and what doesn't. Cooking class made Corn Dog Muffins. They talked about the ingredients and determined what made the recipe sweet and what made it savory. The Theater class engaged in sound and movement games that reflected the theme of conversation and emotions. The Play Class used Soccer and Hot Potato to learn more about conversation. Today in Projects we filmed our stop mot