Focus

Teaching, fostering, and promoting positive behavior that helps all campers grow and develop during their time at camp. The program aims to create positive changes in each camper to enhance their ability to be productive leaders now and in the future.

A 4:1 camper/counselor ratio

Providing plenty of support for all campers by limiting camp sessions to 40 campers enables campers to build and strengthen friendships with all campers through a full schedule of daily activities, team challenges, and enjoyable games.          

Personal Journals

Each camper is provided with their own personal journal for daily journal entries. The educational focus of daily journal entries is on writing and reflecting on the daily events and activities throughout the duration of the camp. In addition to using the journals for taking notes regarding the structure of the camp and the full schedule of daily activities and assignments, campers are also given daily writing tasks to hone their writing skills and provide them with a memory keepsake upon finishing the program.

"LEARNING IS EASIEST WHEN IT'S FUN!" 

Northwoods Adventure...... is committed to providing a safe, high quality outdoor program that emphasises learning through participation. The acronym LETSC (let's see), is used to motivate and inspire campers to achieve success.

Leadership, Effort, Teamwork, Stepping Up, and Courage

Each year, returning campers are given higher levels of responsibility within the camp structure. As confidence builds and leadership and communication skills improve campers are promoted to positions such as:

Team Leaders, Crew Leaders, Cabin Leaders, Junior Counselors and Counselors.

Daily Schedule (sample)

7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast

8:00 - 8:30 Personal Space (clean up and organize)

9:00 - 10:00 All Camp Activity

10:00 - 11:00 Open Waterfront

11:30 - 12:30 Team Competition or Tournament

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Solo Journal Time

14:30 - 16:00 Electives

16:00 - 18:00 Free Time (personal space clean up)

18:00 - 19:00 Team Time (meetings and practice)

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

20:00 - 21:30 Occasional Night Activity (not every night!)

team game, campfire, jeeping, etc.

21:30 - 22:30 Bed Time

23:00 Last Call........Lights Out!

NOTE: During the summertime at camp in Minnesota, the sun sets after 21:00, therefore our days are long and the usual bed time is later than normal for those campers coming from Tokyo.

LEFT: Ethan holds up the white board explaining the communication cycle as his team prepares for a 'blind trust' activity where one teammate is blindfolded and another teammate must lead them through a course by using their voice to give directions.

RIGHT: The campers sit in a large circle during an all camp meeting just prior to beginning an all camp activity.