Posted in Tennis on Sep 17th, 2008
Tennis always seems to be a popular sports activity at Rockbrook. Sure there are lessons and chances to have an instructor teach you more about how to be a better tennis player. Sure we have little tournaments (both singles and doubles) now and then. We can always improve our tennis skills like [...]
Posted in Drama on May 5th, 2008
Can you tell what these girls are doing? Does it look “dramatic?” Do they seem to be “acting” with “feeling?” Maybe they’re in a “play?” Those certainly are intense “expressions.” Their posture really tells a story. That’s right it’s girls from the Rockbrook camp Drama activity! All the [...]
Posted in Outdoors on Sep 7th, 2007
Another article has come our way (thanks Bird!) about the value of outdoor experience for kids. It’s “Time Outdoors Gives Kids a Big Boost” by Tom Stienstra of the San Francisco Chronicle. The article is about an initiative in California to recognize a “Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights,” a document declaring that every [...]
Posted in Summer Camp on Jul 11th, 2007
It’s Wednesday at Rockbrook, and on Wednesdays, we do things a little differently. During the middle of the week we have a special day appropriately titled “Cabin Day,” for it is a time set aside to spend with your own cabin. Today, for example, middler cabins four and seven will be participating in an extreme [...]
Posted in Drama on Jul 2nd, 2007
Hey, it’s Lexie reporting to you directly from the Middler line… and beyond!
Many girls held their breath this morning as they nervously climbed the steps of the Dining Hall. The cast list for our play, The Wizard of Oz, had just gone up and everyone was anxious to see. The initial craze of [...]
Posted in Outdoors on May 14th, 2007
And speaking of relay races… here’s another classic summer camp activity. It’s the greased watermelon! There are several versions of this, but basically you take a good sized watermelon, coat it with shortening, toss it in the water (yep, it floats) and then you try to push it through the water as a [...]
Posted in Girls Camps on Feb 19th, 2007
Rockbrook is a girls sleep away camp in North Carolina. Kids benefit from play.
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