Meet Izzy!  She’s currently in 2nd grade and will be a Lower Junior Girl at camp this summer.  She lives in Scarsdale, NY.

-Her parents met at Michigan, and she’s got a lot of spirit…Go Big Blue!

-She loves to do gymnastics, and showed me some cartwheels during my visit.

-Izzy is not at all nervous to perform in front of a crowd!  She goes to Star Kids and has done performances in Wicked, Beauty and the Beast and much more.

-She’s also an athlete, and loves soccer, basketball and softball!

-She’s looking forward to the cooking program at camp because she loves all kids of food, especially baking dessert!  (And, she’s pretty excited for Canteen visits and had a lot of candy related questions!)

-She has two older cousins at Canadensis, and Jake and Sydney have been telling her all about the great stuff at Canadensis.  She’s pumped for cornman, and zumba and art and so much more!

-Izzy also likes to read and borrow books from friends, so if you have any good reads at camp, please let her know!

 

 

Meet Sasha!  She’s currently in 2nd grade and will be a Lower Junior Girl at camp this summer.  She lives in Woodbury, NY!

-Her teacher at school sends her daughters to Camp Canadensis, so she’s been hearing lots of insider tips all year…not to mention she has two cousins that are also Canadensis campers!!

-Her older cousin Bailey will be spending her 4th summer at camp, and has really helped her get prepared!

-Sasha has two younger siblings – a sister named Bianca and a brother named Damien.

-She takes jazz and tap class during the year, and also takes art classes!

-She really loves the arts, and will be picking artsy things for her electives, including glass fusion!

-She gave me a tour of her room, and I loved seeing her many softball and tennis trophies.  Her room was super neat, she’s definitely going to help her bunk win the honor bunk prizes!

-Sasha loves a lot of vegetables…but not cucumbers, and she doesn’t like fruit!  When we have our afternoon Fruit on the Fly snack everyday, she’ll be taking the pretzel rod option!

 

 

Meet Maya!  She’s currently in 3rd grade, and will be an Upper Junior Girl at camp this summer.  She lives in New York, NY!

-Maya gave me a tour of her room which had a lot of zebra and cheetah prints, and her favorite colors which are magenta and turquoise, and we talked about all the activities she loves…including rollerblading and lip syncing.

-This was her first year at the Anderson school in NYC.

-She loves to read, and had finished most of the Harry Potter books.

-She has a summer birthday, and cannot wait to celebrate at camp!

-Maya likes to play sports, and is excited for tennis and basketball at camp.  Also waterskiing, gymnastics, glass fusion and cheerleading!

-She has been working on her bike riding skills, so she’ll be ready to hit the trails at Camp Canadensis!

-She plays piano, and is very musical.  We listened to some tunes on her water speakers, and talked about the shows she likes, including Wicked!

Big sister Chloe is coming back to camp for her 2nd summer, and she will be an Upper Inter.  She has awesome stickers and posters around her room, including a bunch from camp!  She is super smart and has been seeing her camp friends as often as possible this summer.  She’s also looking forward to things like Staff MTV Night on the first night of camp, and basketball!

 

 

 

Meet Julia!  She is currently in 3rd grade and will be an Upper Junior Girl this summer!  She lives in Gladwyne, PA.

-She is a big sister, and is so excited for her first summer at camp!

-Last year, she dressed up as an Angel for Halloween, and told me all her tricks to getting the good candy.  She absolutely loves chocolate!

-She showed me a bunch of trophies she got from all different kinds of sports, and soccer is her favorite.  She even plays soccer in the spring.

-A few times a week, she wakes up early for school to do clubs, like the math club, knitting club or yoga club!

-Julia has a huge room and it will be perfect for sleepovers with camp friends after the summer!

-We had tacos together, and she loves Mexican food (which we have a few times a week!)…but she doesn’t like any broccoli!

-She’s totally pumped to try waterskiing, and might want to be in the camp show too!

 

Meet Lily!  She’s currently in 4th grade and will be a Lower Inter Girl this summer.  She lives in Dix Hills, NY.

-She goes to gymnastics after school and can do all sorts of cool tricks, including a back handspring and on the trampoline she can do flips as well!

-She has older siblings who’ve been at camp for years, and on Visiting Days, you couldn’t get her out of the gymnastics room!

-This winter she played on a basketball team, and she learned a lot of skills and how to play legit games.  Her team was the “Magic”.

-Her favorite colors are turquoise and blue.

-Lily can be a little quiet at first, and then can be loud and crazy!

-She loves a lot of art stuff, and is excited to try glass fusion.  She also thinks ceramics sounds cool!

Both her siblings love Canadensis too…big brother Tyler was wearing his Canadensis “5 Year Jacket” when I was over!  Big sister Alexa is going to be getting her 5 year jacket this summer, and will be an Upper Senior!  They were both a huge help on the home visit, and filled Lily in on all the camp highlights!

 

 

Meet Julia!  She’s about to finish 3rd grade, and will be an Upper Junior at camp this summer.  She lives in New York, NY!

-Julia will love every single activity at camp…except maybe gymnastics.  She’s super fun and loves it all!

-She has gone skiing during the winter, and is excited to try waterskiing at camp this summer…and the zip line too!

-During the year, she plays soccer and can be put in every position.

-She loves all different kids of food, pretty much every item on our menu got the thumbs up!

-Julia likes to read, and her favorites are Diary of a Whimpy Kid and when I was over she was reading Flora and Ulysses.

-Her favorite sport to watch is football, her family is a season ticket holder for the Giants!  She is so spirited, I’m sure she gets super crazy at the games!

-She likes to watch cooking shows on TV.  For her birthday this year, she had a Gaga party, and got her mom out at the last minute…she’s a gaga champion!

-Julia love Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga…and bagels!

 

 

Meet Maya!  She is currently in 3rd grade, and will be an Upper Junior this summer at camp.  She lives in Lafayette Hill, PA!

-Last year, Maya came up to camp for Tour & More Weekend, she had so much fun and is ready for the full summer!

-Her favorite TV show is “Every Witch Way”…I had never heard of it before, but must check it out before camp!

-She loves collecting things, and when she gave me a tour of her room, she showed me her marble and crystal collection.

-Maya loves amusement parks and waterslides.  And, she’s in the process of learning to play guitar.

-If she wakes up early at camp, she’s got a plan.  She is planning to write letters, and hopes to send 100 every week!

-She plays on a softball team, and he coach is awesome (it’s her dad!).  She plays on a soccer team in the fall.

-She really likes newcomb, photography, archery and gymnastics.

-Maya is great at drawing and doodling, and arts and crafts.  She had a lot of stuff in her house she’s made in ceramics.

 

Meet Ella!  She is currently in 3rd grade and will be an Upper Junior Girl this summer.  She lives in West Orange, NJ!

-She’s in a Hip Hop dance class, and is doing a dance to the song “Bubblegum Boy”!  She had a dance party birthday party with all her friends this year, and they sang karoke!

-She loves One Direction and Taylor Swift.  Her favorite TV show is Liv & Maddie…especially because Liv is so fashionable.

-When I was visiting, her room was about to get a makeover, and she was so excited to have it painted purple and dark turquoise because those are some of her favorite colors.

-She loves puppies, and when she spent the night at camp last summer for Tour & More, she remembers when my dog Annie came to visit the bunk.

-Ella’s day camp went to the lake every Monday, so she’s done a lot of cool water activities.  When she was at Canadensis last summer, she fell off the banana boat, and can’t wait to get another try to hold on!

-For Halloween she dressed up as a “Pink Woman” this year.

-She’s ready for camp, and has tons of fun pillows for her bed and great posters to hang on the wall!

 

Meet Dylan!  She’s currently in 3rd grade, and will be an Upper Junior Girl at camp this summer!  She lives in New York, NY.

-Dylan goes to the Manhattan New School, and loves pickles…she told me about a new restaurant in NYC!

-She gets the hiccups all the time (just like me!) and sometimes her dad will sneak up and scare her (and Brian does the same thing to me!)

-Her favorite sport is gymnastics, and she goes two times a week.  She was flipping and doing backbends while I was over, and it was so easy for her to do a split!

-I got a tour of her room, and she had a lot of awards from soccer and swimming.  She also really likes to play basketball.

-When I was visiting, she was reading the Ramona books.  Her favorite color combination is blue and light green, and she had a lot of art projects in her room.

-We talked about some of the cool family vacations she has gone on, including a trip to Mexico where she got to swim with the dolphins!

-For her electives, Dylan will probably pick tennis and gymnastics.  Both her parents went to camp and loved it, so it’s a sure thing that Dylan will love it too!  (She’s already requesting “Baked by Melissa” cupcakes on Visiting Day!)

 

 

Meet Claire and Ben!  They are both finishing 2nd grade, and will be Lower Juniors at camp this summer!  They live in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

CLAIRE:

-She’s very crafty, when I arrived at their house she had made me a sweet card.  She loves doing art projects!

-She collects snowglobes and showed me them in her awesome room.

-Claire plans to try out for the Camp Show this summer.

-Her most favorite activity is gymnastics – she loves being on the floor element!

-Her favorite color is neoon green, and her favorite foods are ice cream and cookies!

-Claire did the Tour & More Weekend last year, and in looking ahead to spending the full summer at camp, she’s excited to try some of the medium paced rides at Dorney Park.

-Mostly, Claire cannot wait to make new friends at camp, and to have friendly competition with her twin brother at Evening Activities!

BEN:

-He really likes books, and soccer.

-Ben is really excited to celebrate his birthday at camp this summer, and we talked all about the special ways we celebrate at camp!

-He think’s he’ll love the batting cage elective.

-And, he loves baseball so much, he will want to participate in the Canadensis Baseball League (CBL).

-He is twins with Claire, but they also have an older brother!  And, his Dad went to Canadensis growing up and is an Alumni of camp!

Henry is going to be spending his 4th summer at camp!  He is going to be an Upper Inter Boy this summer.  He had his TAC’s (Tagger at Canadensis for doing good deeds!) in his room, and I loved seeing it.  We talked all about the sports he’s been playing (soccer, basketball, etc!) and how excited he is to be in Middle Camp this summer!

(Here’s a selfie Claire and I took, and she turned into a collage!)

 

Meet Casey!  She’s currently in 4th grade, and will be a Lower Inter Girl this summer!  She lives in Westfield, NJ.

-Casey did the Tour & More program twice, and she’s been at camp fir visiting day, so she knows all about our amazing camp food like the Cornman and David’s cookies!

-This girl loooooves to dance!  She is in the process of creating more dances, and taking more classes.

-Casey does every dance style you can think of…lyrical, ballet, tap, hip-hop etc!  We had a little dance party.  She makes up routines on the spot and is going to be a huge help to her bunk during MTV Night!

-She plays every single sport, and especially likes basketball, softball and soccer.

-She is also good at gymnastics.  She showed me her tricks!

-Her dog is named “Teddy” and is so sweet!  She also had some “pet deer” who like to visit her backyard!

-She’s also a great artist, and showed me her fashion design sketches with lots of details including shoes!

-Her basement was under construction when I was over, but when it’s finished it’s going to be a great place to have a party for all of her camp friends!

-She wants everyone to know that she is not at all “vanilla” – she is a totally fun and ridiculous “chocolate” explosion!

 

 

 

Ryan is her big brother, and he will be spending his 3rd summer at camp.  This year he will be a Freshman boy .  He is soooo excited for camp, he screamed from the other room when he heard me and Casey talking about stuff!  We talked about all sorts of stuff, including how delicious the donuts are on Thursday mornings at camp!

 

 

 

This brother/sister team is coming to camp for the first time this summer!  Zoe is finishing 2nd grade and will be a Lower Junior Girl.  Ben is finishing 4th grade and will be a Lower Inter Boy.  They live in Livingston, NJ.

ZOE:

-She is going to be celebrating her birthday at camp, but when she gets off the bus next month she’ll still be 7 years old!

-She loves gymnastics and dance!

-The hat she’s wearing in the photo above is her “disco/shopping” hat!  It’s cool and I hope she brings it to camp!

-She hopes to have a bottom bunk so she can turn her camp bed into a fort!

-After school, Zoe loves to roller blade and ride her bik.

-Zoe has about 5,000 boooks!

-She is super excited for activities like art, sewing and cooking!

BEN:

-He is most excited to do the sports at camp.  Basketball is probably his favorite.

-But, he also likes Tennis and Baseball a lot!

-In September, he got a puppy!  It’s a boxer named Missy and he lvoes her!

-On beach trips with his family, Ben loves to surf…so cool!

-He also enjoys riding his skateboard.

-We talked about a lot of different food questions at camp, and he’s going to be trying Fruit on the Fly!

 

 

 

Meet Kate!  She is finishing 2nd grade and will be a Lower Junior Girl at camp this summer!  She lives in Syosset, NY.

-When I was visiting, Kate had just joined a gymnastics competition team, and she was tumbling with joy the whole time I was there!

-She was doing cartwheels, splits and handstands.  She was working on her back handspring and loves the bars.

-We talked about her past theater performances – she was a mermaid in Peter Pan, and suggests we do Frozen at camp one summer!

-She plays piano, and recently performed at NYSMA for the first time.  But, she’s also an athlete who is good at sports too.  We talked a bunch about her swim team, she can do all the strokes including butterfly!

-She loves art also, and is excited to tie-dye at camp this summer!

-She loves Katy Perry (because they have the same name!)

-She had so many Canadensis things in her room…a clock, water bottle, teddy bear…her normal bedtime is around 8PM, so she’s excited to stay up later at camp!

-Kate loves all foods, except maybe pineapple!

Her big brother Ethan will be at camp for his 2nd summer, and will be an Upper Inter Boy.  He was one of the stars of our play last year, and suggests we do Mary Poppins.  He also did NYSMA this year for singing, piano and trombone too!  He wants to be even more serious about his swimming this year, and is excited to get back to camp…he thinks the food is great!

 

 

Meet Jonah!  He’s currently in 3rd grade, and will be an Upper Junior Boy this summer!  He’s from Philadelphia, PA.

-He sometimes goes by the nickname “JL” for his initials.

-He’s looking forward to a lot of different activities at camp, especially painting, mountain  biking, glass fusion, gaga, tetherball and activities in the lake!

-Jonah showed me a porcupine he made in Kindergartend, and it was really great!

-We flipped through a book of camp photos, and when we got to the sports page he liked every single activity!  He especially likes golf.

-Last summer at his day camp, he won the silver medal for a dodgeball game called “pins”.  It sounded like a lot of fun!

-We talked about MTV night and and the big all camp activities, and he was pumped for Dorney Park!

-He was dressed for his hockey game later 🙂

His big sister Annabelle will be at camp for her 3rd summer, and will be an Upper Inter Girl!  She helped me out a ton during the home visit, and explained all the fun details about camp to Jonah.  She’s been staying busy during the school year with performances and dance classes!  Not pictured is oldest brother Eli, who is a serious student…but also loves changes to take a break and see camp friends, his bunk even went on a ski trip together this year!

 

 

Meet Jamie!  She is in 3rd grade and will be an Upper Junior Girl this summer.  She lives in Livingston, NJ!

-Jamie loves dogs, and wanted to know if she could spend time helping me out and walking my dog Annie this summer…I told her YES!

-She loves cornman, and wanted to know how many times she’d get to have it this summer (the answer is 3 – open house, carnival and visiting day!)

-I got a tour of her room, and got to see all her fun beanie boos.  Her favorite one was named Fluffy.

-She is a serious soccer player, and was on the 3rd grade championship team called the “Storm”.

-She loves arts and crafts, and cannot wait to try glass fusion this summer.  She knows how to do pottery and showed me lots of her ceramics projects from day camp, and the award she won for helping another camper on the overnight.

-She spent a night at camp last summer in the Tour & More Weekend, and she got to do the banana boat in the lake!

-She also had a pretty funny story ab out where she showered during her overnight weekend…haha!

Her big brother Mason will be back at camp for his 2nd summer, and will be an Upper Inter Boy.  He has been loving seeing his camp friends during the winter, and is letting his hair grow and grow!  He’s excited to be in Middle Camp this summer and get some extra freedom during Free Play and a bowling trip!

Mason and Jamie have Canadensis Cousins too…and it was awesome to see them on the home visit!  David is going to be a CIT (Counselor in Training) and that is the highlight of the Camp Canadensis camper experience!  Rebecca is going to be spending her 3rd summer on staff, this year she will be a Drama Specialist, and is trying to get Jamie pumped up for the camp show!

 

 

Meet Dylan!  She is in 2nd grade and will be a Lower Junior Girl at camp this summer!  She lives in Washington Crossing, PA!

-Her favorite colors are hot pink, neon green and blue!

-She plays on a soccer team called the “Patriots” and they wear red and it’s her favorite sport.  She plays goalie!

-But…she’s not a great goalie when she’s defending against her two big brothers in the backyard…they are serious athletes!!

-She also does gymnastics once a week and is working on her back handspring and back flip.  She showed off some cartwheels and roundoffs for me, right in the living room!

-For her electives at camp this summer, she plans on doing glass fusion, woodworking and waterslides.

-At her day camp, she loved played Newcomb, and doing the climbing wall and high ropes – I’m sure she’ll love it at Canadensis too!

-Dylan likes all different kinds of foods, especially bagels, lox, pasta and nachos…all things we have regularly at camp!

-In addition to having two brothers, she has two dogs named Izzy and Cosmo (she got to name Izzy!)

 

Chase is spending his 3rd summer at Canadensis, and is going to be an Upper Inter at camp this summer.  His basketball team was very successful this winter, and he won a trophy almost as big as his little sister!  He plays sports year round, including soccer!  Logan is going to be spending his 4th summer at camp, and will be a Lower Senior.  He’s excited to be on Senior Side for the first time, and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah this past year.  It’s been great to see all his camp friends at the different parties.