A Typical Day at Camp Shelanu
A Typical Day at Camp Shelanu
From drop-off to pick-up, Shelanu campers are living their best lives. Here we address some of the highlights in a typical camp day and answer the questions we’re often asked.
Pickup and Drop off
Pick-up and drop-off happen via carline right next door at The Lerner School, 1935 W. Cornwallis Road. Drop-off runs from 8:25-9:00am. Pickup runs from 3:15-3:45pm. Parents should stay in the car, and staff will greet families and walk campers to or from the car. Door-to-door service!
Extended Care
We offer Before Care from 7:45 - 8:25 and After Care from 3:45-5:30pm.
Daily swim
If you think it’s too good to be true, it isn’t! Weather permitting, everyone swims every day!
All campers are swim tested at the beginning of the season to check their swim ability and are given a colored band that helps lifeguards and counselors more easily identify who can go in the deep end, dive off the diving board, and slide down the slide, among other things.
Swim Lessons
All campers with a red or yellow band ( non-swimmers through those still learning to swim a pool length) enrolled in Classic Camp receive swim lessons three times per week, included in their camp tuition. Alongside their friends, campers have been known to begin the summer as non-swimmers, fearful of the water, and end the summer as confident swimmers, cannonballing off the diving board. All Specialty Camp campers and Classic Camp campers who already have a green band (can swim the length of the pool) will enjoy free swim only.
Food
If your child has food allergies, dietary restrictions, or keeps kosher, please make sure to notify the camp team in advance. While campers bring their own food and we enact a no sharing policy, we periodically provide a special snack or cook and eat something as part of a cooking activity. The camp staff can work with you on solutions. Please note that we are not a nut-free facility, though we are proactively nut-aware. All food provided is in accordance with the Levin JCC’s kashrut policy, and we ask families to observe this policy as well (this means no pork products, no shellfish, and no dairy/meat served together). Please note that our kashrut practices may not match some families’ kashrut practices.
Additionally, if your family would like a loaf of challah or babka, we can send it home with your camper on Friday afternoon. The orders are due by Wednesday at 2pm. You can follow this link to order your challah or babka and start your Shabbat off right. While you’re placing your order, in the “My Comment” section just note that you would like it sent home with Camp Shelanu and list your camper’s name.
Inclement Weather
One of the great things about Camp Shelanu Summer Day Camp is the Jewish for Good campus: our campers enjoy plenty of outdoor activities, but can and do retreat to the air conditioned indoors for rest/quiet time, crafts, and more.
But, if the weather is excessively hot or rainy, outdoor activities will be replaced with more indoor activities. For example, our versatile and expansive facilities mean that a rained-out soccer game just happens on our indoor basketball court and outdoor archery might be replaced with indoor Aerial Silks. In the event of lightning or thunder, swimming is canceled, but an indoor dance party begins in one of our fitness rooms or a rousing game of Sharks and Minnows happens in the Sol Schechter Community Hall!