Month: July 2013 – י״ד באב ה׳תשע״ג

The buses for the 2nd trip will be departing Monday 15th Av July 22 at 9AM from 770 Eastern Parkway.

Please arrive AT LEAST a half hour before to load your luggage on camp’s truck.

For those finishing camp, the buses will be arriving outside 770 between 4 & 5 P.M. If you are picking up your son from camp you can come to camp as early as 12 midday.

For more information please call the camp office on 845-292-9307.

Hi there, I’m Alter Kloogershaft and I’m back to give you a full update on the Learning Program here in Gan Yisroel Parkville NY Summer of 5773. Before I begin, I must confess that I would never have made it without my dear Klooger friends: Kalman W. Derher and Isaac D. Farshtier. It’s really all three of us that make up the newly revised Klooger Nation that has invaded camp this summer.

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Campers and staff thoroughly enjoyed the grand trip on Thursday to Camelbeach Mountain Water-park, home of  the biggest water-park in the state of  Pennsylvania.

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Traditionally each day campers have had the opportunity to wake up a little earlier before the regular camp day starts and participate in something called Cocoa Club. Taking place in the Shul, campers were able to learn Mishnayos Baal Peh and then get tested on the material learnt. To encourage the campers delicious hot cups of cocoa were readily available. A large general board indicated the progress of each camper. At the end of the summer prizes were awarded to a select few high achievers.

Introduced this year for the first time in Gan Yisroel has been a completely revamped Mishanyos Baal Peh/Cocoa Club program.  The program builds on the regular MBP but revolves around a special MBP booklet with which each camper can track and view his current achievements whilst planning his next step. Each page of the beautifully designed booklet represents a level of the program. To ascend from one level to the next, campers need to fill the page with the required amount of MBP stamps. Stamps are obtained through attendance and participation in the daily Cocoa club as well as Shabbos afternoon with bonus stamps awarded for learning additional lines. Completion of a level also results in automatic prizes from MBP late nights, canteen credits to unique Rebbe pictures and small sets of Seforim. Already ten campers have worked tirelessly with learning more than 200 lines to go on to complete their first booklet! Additionally three campers have amazingly learnt over 600 lines in the short timeframe of only three weeks!

Besides for the integral focus on individual progress, any learning class who has complete participation in Shabbos Afternoon MBP is awarded an exclusive popcorn party the following week.

The new structure has led to an unprecedented amount of participation in the MBP program this summer with an almost unbelievable 98% percent of campers actively involved in the program. These hard working campers have already managed to learn over 17,500 lines in a short three weeks!

Kol Hakavod!

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Wednesday night featured one of the moments that all campers have been eagerly anticipating: The Klooger All-Star game! Over the last few weeks campers have competed in their learning classes for the much sought after honor of representing their class as a ‘Star’ in the All Star Game. One learned winner from each class competed in the extremely competitive game where they demonstrated their knowledge of the material they have learnt since the beginning of the summer.

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