Chugim (Electives)
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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 Chug lasts approximately 4 days, allowing campers to receive 2 Chugim per week, and 4 total per session.
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 Mountain Biking
- Pool Arts & Crafts Ceramics Nature Soccer Music Martial Arts
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
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