CABIN LIFE AT CAMP WOODMONT
One of the most important aspects of camp life is learning to live together in a group setting. The cabin group serves as a setting where boys and girls learn the skills of interpersonal interaction. Some of the most important character and personality development occurs in the small group setting where life skills like team-work, communications, sharing, conflict-resolution, and self-dependence are used by all campers to get along at camp.
Campers are placed in cabins with cabin-mates of similar ages. Each cabin houses 5-8 campers and a counselor.
Each camper gets a shelf for personal items: campers not only keep their own bunks and shelves neat, but must also help each day with different responsibilities involved with keeping the cabin in order and running smoothly.
Early in the camp session, each counselor meets with the cabin members and they have a group discussion establishing rules of cabin conduct (each camper participates and gives input at every cabin meeting). General responsibilities are rotated each day so that each camper gets to help with a new duty each day. Most cabins have a "work-wheel" which lists each campers name and the various job involved in keeping the cabin clean and operational. The work wheel contains jobs like emptying the trash, checking the clothes line, sweeping the floors, and helping set the cabin table at dinner times. Each cabin is inspected every morning after breakfast and cabin clean-up by the camp director and the results of cabin inspection are announced at lunch.
Each camper is reminded to maintain personal hygiene daily; younger campers sometimes go together with their counselor to the bath-house to make sure that everyone showers and brushes their teeth (all showers have private curtained dressing areas and hot & cold running water).
Campers sit together with their cabins at all meals; family style service with a counselor at the head of each table allows for the development of proper meal-time etiquette. After the blessing (which is usually a sing-song blessing) campers learn to pass every food item around the table and wait for the counselor to begin eating.
Cabin group activity is a daily part of camp life. After participating with different groups in daily activities, the cabin group comes back together in the afternoon for a cabin activity time. Some of the major cabin group activities include: skit-night planning and performance, camp-out (preparing a camp site and returning at night to camp-out), creek-stomping, sports, and more.
Friendships with cabin-mates gives each camper a feeling of belonging to a special group. Each night, counselors lead informal "rap" discussions with their cabins followed by a short motivational or devotional reading or discussion. Campers love the sense of validation, belonging, and self-respect they gain from living together in their own cabin group.
Camp directors Alyson and Tyran (joined by CIT's and other program leaders) visit each cabin at lights out to bring milk and cookies snacks and visit with campers prior to bed-time. Counselors read bedtime stories and have special group sharing time each night in the cabin prior to lights out.
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