Week 8: August 5-9

Tuition: 365

Course: Join us for a week-long celebration of summer! We will delight in different activities each day, including art projects, nature exploration, team games, and read alouds. Together, we will build friendships and enjoy the season.

Instructor: Meaghan Kachadoorian (she/her) is an educator who is excited to foster CFS campers’ connection with the natural world and one another this summer. She currently works as a Learning Specialist supporting neurodivergent teens and young adults. Meaghan has facilitated summer and school-year exchange programs with high schoolers from over 20 countries. She loves exploring the natural world of the Piedmont and sitting with her local mindfulness group.

Tuition: 365

Course: Have you ever wanted to make nostalgic sleepaway camp crafts? Here we will travel back in time to the good ol’ days of 90’s themed camp crafts. Classic friendship bracelets, perler beads, tye-dye shirts, shrinky dinks….there’s no shortage of creativity here!

Instructor: Jenna Carlson joined CFS this school year as a Fountain Purple teacher. During the school year, she loves working with the 3rd and 4th years. But in the summer, she is a crafter extraordinaire! Jewelry making, cricut projects, coloring…you name it. She also loves all things Disney and Star Wars. If you’re looking for a fun, laid back camp where you can express yourself in different ways, then these camps are just for you!

Tuition: 365

Course: Do you love being outside and finding creative ways to interact with nature? Using a variety of natural and manufactured materials, students will have the opportunity to create stunning artwork. Each day we will explore a different area of the CFS campus, including the nature trail, so that we can have a variety of canvases and settings for our creations.

Instructor: Meridy Nicholson is a CFS alumni and currently earning her Bachelor’s Degree at Otis College of Art and Design in Fashion Design. She is passionate about outdoor education, working at nature camp for the past two summers. She loves to be creative and explore new ways to make art, whether that is through painting, digital art, or fashion design. In her free time, Meridy loves to go on hikes, cook, draw, listen to music, and spend time with family and friends.

This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week Five / July 15-19, ages 7-11
Week Six / July 22-26, ages 10-15
Week Seven / July 29 - Aug 2, ages 10-15
Week Eight / Aug 5-9, ages 7-10
Week Eight / Aug 5-9, ages 11-15

Tuition: 365

Course:  It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a... Frisbee! Ultimate Frisbee is one of the fastest growing youth sports in the US, and we want to teach you how to play! Ultimate combines the continuous play of soccer, the end-zones of football, and the pivoting of basketball all with a frisbee to create a fast-paced, exciting game! This camp will teach the fundamentals of the sport, going over different types of throws and the basic strategies of offense and defense. Participants will learn about Spirit of the Game, a fundamental part of Ultimate that focuses on sportsmanship and respect for all players. Each camper will receive an Ultimate Frisbee disc with registration!

Instructor:  Triangle Ultimate is a local nonprofit whose mission is to collaboratively build a community emphasizing accessibility, relationships, and engagement through learning, playing, and teaching the sport of Ultimate in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Triangle Ultimate is excited to strengthen our relationship with the Carolina Friends School community through great summer camp experiences. The camp will be led by some of the top leaders in the Triangle's Ultimate Frisbee community!

Course: Let’s stir up some favorite foods using simple recipes! Ever wonder how ingredients come together to create tasty foods? We’ll find out while we make things we love—pizza, omelets, pies, mac & cheese, cakes, and more. Along the way, we’ll learn some important cooking techniques, create some new recipes, and taste our many creations. One word for this class? Yummy!

Instructor: Bo Newsome is a musician (an oboist, composer, and educator), teaching students at his home (or on Zoom) and at Duke. He frequently creates and presents programs and residencies for young people, and attended workshops presented by Kennedy Center’s program for teaching artists. He developed a general music program and created original operas with children in a remote public school on an island in Maine. 

To satisfy his sweet tooth in a house with few sweets, Bo started baking pies, cakes, and cookies when he was little. Though he’s really never met a pie he didn’t like, he especially likes lemon, lime, and peach. In addition to cooking, Bo’s been a lover of animals, architecture, and art, and a collector of treasures as long as he can remember.
 

Tuition: 365

Course: A few steps into the woods and we’ll enter a world of bird nests and calls, trails of mice and voles, evidence of beavers and flying squirrels. How do you find your way in the woods? How does the weather affect animals and plants? Where, how, and why do animals hide? And how do we avoid animal pests? We’ll find answers to these questions and more as we explore the woods, fields, and streams around CFS.

Whatever the weather, we’ll be out and about, getting wet, dirty, and sweaty exploring, collecting, wading, and creating—and navigating—scavenger hunts and other games, and designing nature-inspired prints and drawings. Not only can nature teach us a lot about ourselves, but when we look close together, we’ll find lessons in teamwork and the importance of taking care of our planet. Young adventurers will need appropriate clothing and plenty of energy! 

Instructor: Julia "Julie" Neumark (she/her) previously served the CFS community as an assistant teacher and Extended Day instructor in the Lower School and then as support teacher and Extended Day assistant teacher at the Chapel Hill Early School. She graduated from UNC Asheville in 2021 with an B.S. in environ-mental studies with a self-designed concentration in environmental education. She is now in the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program at UNC, and will graduate next May with a Masters in elementary education.

Julie was born in Hungary, but grew up Elkin, North Carolina. She speaks Hungarian at home and visits her relatives in Budapest often. She loves sharing about her Hungarian culture and language with anyone who is interested! Her other interests include gardening, exploring nature, painting, dancing, traveling to new places, and playing music or board games with friends.

This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week Four / July 8-12
Week Eight / Aug 5-9

Tuition: 365

Course: Come on down, you’re the next contestant in… Games Galore! We’ll spend our time playing favorite game show games, board games, card games, and outdoor games. If playing Wheel of Fortune, Candyland, Go Fish, and freeze tag all in one day sounds awesome, then this is the camp for you! We’ll play lots of games, stretch our teamwork skills, find confidence in ourselves no matter the outcome of a game. Let’s get gaming!

Instructor: Sarah Woody joins us from Grady Brown Elementary in Hillsborough. Where she was named Beginning Teacher of the Year for the 2023-2024 school year in Orange County. She loves all things history and STEAM-related and loves to talk about all the cool places to visit in North Carolina. When she's not teaching 4th graders she is watching movies, hanging out with her two dogs and husband, or playing card games with her family. 

This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week Three / July 1-5
Week Eight / Aug 5-9

Tuition: 365

Course: Do you have what it takes to be in Friends Got Talent? We think you do! Bring your special talents, whether it’s song, dance, magic, jokes, or a unique talent you would love to share, we want to see it! Students will spend the week crafting a performance. We will explore the different performance categories the students choose, play games that encourage movement and being comfortable with our bodies, participate in fun team activities and challenges, have a Karaoke party, and, of course, bring it all together for Friday’s Friends Got Talent!

Instructor: Leites Chiong has been playing guitar for almost 30 years and teaching guitar for over a decade, with stints in various bands along the way. He's a father of four, including three children at Carolina Friends. Leites teaches all styles of music for acoustic and electric guitar, as well as bass guitar and Ukulele (including in CFS’ after-school music program for children AND adults from CFS or anywhere else). He helps beginners through advanced students learn how to play and how to write songs. Leites enjoys working with children and seeing the love of music grow within them.

Tuition: 365

Course: Have you ever put a cardboard box on your head and thought it was kinda cool? This camp aims to take that feeling a step further by working with recycled materials to construct armor and other accessories. We will spend time imagining, designing and constructing armor while also discussing the significance of reusing waste materials such as cardboard and paper. By the end of the camp, participants will have completed or be well on their way to completing their very own set of Eco-Armor!

Instructor: Ben Allison is a Chapel Hill local who works as an Extended Day Coordinator at CFS during the school year. After being on the Summer Programs Leadership Team last summer, he is excited to return as a camp instructor! By May of 2024 he will have graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in Human Development and Family Studies, and he is currently intending to become an educator in the state of North Carolina. In his free time he enjoys playing video games, listening to, writing and playing music, and reading.

Tuition: 365

Course: Robinson has extensive knowledge of the nearby trail systems in the forests surrounding Carolina Friends School. He also packs a mean picnic lunch. Campers will start the day by planning their routes, packing supplies, and prepping their picnics. Then, they will venture in a bus to a nearby trailhead and start their hike. In addition to natural beauty, the campers will encounter old mills, gravestones, and other historic sites. There will be plenty of time for games, songs, sketching/photography, and whatever else the campers may enjoy in this peaceful woodland context. We will return to campus with plenty of time before pickup. 

Instructor: Robinson Earle is primarily a guitar teacher. He writes his own music and leads a Post-Folk trio called The River Otters. In his free time, he likes to frolic through the woods with his wife, Sara Belle, their two daughters, Lyra Belle and Maizy Lee. He also enjoys playing sports, watching movies, and reading. 

Tuition: 380 (cost includes field trip expenses)

Course: Change Makers Challenge is a week-long adventure for young and aspiring creatives, teachers, leaders, healers, and good trouble makers on how to vision and create a more loving, peaceful, and just world through our individual and collective actions. We will learn about change makers all over the world and work together to explore all the ways we can make a difference in our schools, communities, and beyond through fabulous field trips, visual and performing art projects, time with amazing leaders in our area (virtually and in real time), and lots of time exploring our own super powers and possibilities! This includes learning and practicing cool ways to navigate change in our own lives. So Join us and be the Change! (And yes, change can be joyful and challenging at the same time!)

Instructor: Rinah Rachel Galper is the sole proprietor of Joyoushout, supporting youth and adult changemakers working at the intersection of justice, creativity, healing, and spirituality through consulting, coaching, enrichment classes, and community gatherings. Rinah is a licensed teacher, expressive artist, clergy member, activist, writer, group facilitator, nature guide, and healing practitioner. She has been providing summer camp adventures at CFS and throughout the Triangle since 2006 to nurture young people’s love and need for magic, mystery, mindfulness, creativity, connection, confidence, and joy.

This course is offered in multiple weeks:
Week Five / July 15-19, ages 7-11
Week Six / July 22-26, ages 10-15
Week Seven / July 29 - Aug 2, ages 10-15
Week Eight / Aug 5-9, ages 7-10
Week Eight / Aug 5-9, ages 11-15

Tuition: 365

Course: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a... Frisbee! Ultimate Frisbee is one of the fastest growing youth sports in the US, and we want to teach you how to play! Ultimate combines the continuous play of soccer, the end-zones of football, and the pivoting of basketball all with a frisbee to create a fast-paced, exciting game! This camp will teach the fundamentals of the sport, going over different types of throws and the basic strategies of offense and defense. Participants will learn about Spirit of the Game, a fundamental part of Ultimate that focuses on sportsmanship and respect for all players. Each camper will receive an Ultimate Frisbee disc with registration!

Instructor: Triangle Ultimate is a local nonprofit whose mission is to collaboratively build a community emphasizing accessibility, relationships, and engagement through learning, playing, and teaching the sport of Ultimate in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Triangle Ultimate is excited to strengthen our relationship with the Carolina Friends School community through great summer camp experiences. The camp will be led by some of the top leaders in the Triangle's Ultimate Frisbee community! 

Course: Narratives! They move the soul and exist in all walks of life. Often the joy of narratives is lost in the trees of a normal educational career. In this workshop we'll approach the study of narrative from a new direction: Japanese Animation. Using Anime we will explore learning objectives from the North Carolina Grade 9-10 English Language Arts curriculum. Class activities will include watching anime, writing analysis, discussion, graphic and chart creation, and educational games. Some of the materials will be Rated TV-14 in the US and we will be following a high school level curriculum, however, the content will still be accessible for students under this age.

Instructor: Achiri Acha has been at CFS since he was six years old! He mentored with Jordan Shamp in Sports camp, became a Counselor-In-Training, and then moved on to become a camp assistant and instructor for the past eight summers. Achiri has worked in Extended Day at Lerner School and School’s Out Camps at the Jewish Community Center and currently works at USA Ninja Challenge during the school year. Achiri's goal is to be an elementary school physical education instructor and coach.