By now, our first session campers have been reunited with their families and are moving on to the next phase of their summer vacations. We know our first session parents are dying to know every exciting detail about your child’s month here at CJ. One of the biggest complaints that we get is that when parents ask their children how camp was, they respond with a grunt— “good”— before passing out and sleeping for the next day and a half. Here are a few questions and topics to bring up to help combat the CJ Blues and get your campers talking…and we know they can talk!

How many times did you go down the zip-line?  Climb the tower?

What was your favorite meal?

Who was your bunkmate?

Where did you go on your day trip?

Which chuggim (electives) did you choose?

What did you learn during Bikkurim?

Ask them to teach you their favorite cheers.

What was your favorite morning Midah or Middot (Jewish values)?

Ask them to sing one of the songs they learned in shira (the singing activity) with you.

What was their funniest moment at camp?

We hope this gets the conversation flowing for you! If your camper has extra cute or funny responses, we’d love to hear them! Email Elana: communications@campjudaea.org

We also hope you’ll share the weekly CJ News videos with your campers, as they have not had the chance to see the finished products while here at Camp. The Bikkurim video went live last night, but here is the final week’s edition! All of the videos from first session are located in this folder on our Vimeo Channel.  Shabbat Shalom from your CJ Family!