The Teva staff worked together to set up the new tents for campouts this summer. Teva 2.0 is ready for campers to come sleep-out, have campfires, and enjoy themselves in the great outdoors.
By Ross Glinkenhouse, Director of Outdoor Education
Teva staff practicing square knots
Teva 2.0 is now in its second year here at CLC. Last summer our whole Teva Program was modified, with a new location on camp that we now call K’far Har (village on the mountain) and installed 5 new Platform Tents. The program has grown, kids love it, and so this year it has expanded even more. We have a total of 8 Platform Tents now, and a larger staff to better enhance the program.
The Teva team is diverse this year; they come from Israel, England, Ireland, and the states. Each person eager to get our kids connected to the great outdoors. This summer we will embrace what has worked in the past and continue to push the limits. In our programming time during the day, we are going to focus on outdoor skills.
For example, campers will learn how to make an emergency shelter, or how to properly pack a backpack, and plan a long haul hiking trip. We will have our Israeli scouts to teach us the best of Israel all throughout the day, and of course invite all of lower camp to join us for overnights.
Adventure staff learning facilitation techniques
Campers will have an opportunity to make their own food such as pizza, samboosik, s’mores and other fun desserts. This summer we plan to use our new Poyke (cast Iron Pot). What goes in a Poyke you ask? Anything of course! Sweet potatoes, carrots, rice, onions, sweet chili Sauce, and so much more! Everything we cook is vegetarian.
We try to use fresh foods from our own garden here at camp, and from local farms. It is important to teach our kids the importance of supporting local farms and ways that we can work to lower our carbon footprint.
Our hope is to get our kids a better sense of how to care and prepare to be outside. There is a lot of land to explore, time to get off of Google maps and experience it ourselves!