Chugim

During a typical day at CMC, campers participates in five activity periods.  Three of these activity periods are Cabin Activity periods in which each cabin is scheduled into one of the specialty program areas in camp, and attends that specialty program together as a cabin. This allows every camper to participate in each of our specialty activity periods at least once per session at camp.

The other two periods are for Chugim, or elective activity periods that campers select once at camp. Each Chugim lasts about a week, and campers attend their requested Chugim for the entire week and then sign up for new Chugim after the week is over. Our upper division units (campers entering 7th-10th grades) have two Chugim periods per day, while our lower division units (campers entering 2nd-6th grades) have one Chug period each day. The fifth period for our lower division units are reserved for scheduled pool, Pe’ulah (creative Jewish learning) or additional cabin time.

Our Chugim periods are geared towards skill development, and each of our specialty program areas offer a skill-based Chugim each week. Some examples are:

• Ropes     Archery          Basketball       Baseball      Dance        Cardio 
• Pool       Arts & Crafts    Ceramics        Nature        Soccer        Music

In addition, we invite our staff to create innovative and unique skill-based Chugim to add to the mix. This spices up the variety of programming so to speak! Past and popular examples of creative Chugim include:

• Zumba
• Synchronized swimming
  
• Magic
• Cardio funk
• Fun with science
• Fun with duct tape
• Photo hikes
• Creative writing
• Glee
• Cooking
• Water aerobics
• Ultimate frisbee
• Improv theater
• Candle making
• Costume design
• Yoga