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The Jewish Home | JULY 7, 2022
THIs Week, TJH speaks WITH…
Camp Shira
By SuSan Schwamm
Two months of amazing summer fun! For the last few weeks, our children have been basking in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their desks? In this series, we speak with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps. For Five years now, shira has become one oF the hottest camps in town. at camp shira, campers have something to sing about. with a beautiFul campus, energetic staFF, outstanding activities, and nonstop Fun, a summer in camp shira builds memories For a liFetime. we spoke with camp director mrs. yaFFa schreier in the middle oF her busy schedule to learn a bit more about the non-stop Fun.
Mrs. Schreier, this is Camp Shira’s fifth summer! Tell us about Camp Shira. We are a premier girls and preschoolers camp in the Five Towns. We have kids at Camp Shira from all over, and we try to give them a really enjoyable summer – especially this year! We have a great location and an amazing campus. That sounds like a blast! Tell us about your changes and your different divisions. We have three awesome divisions. Our Juniors are boys and girls Nursery-Pre1A and girls entering 1st and 2nd grade. This division is led by Morah Mirel Krasner with her capable assistant Morah Shani Borenstein. Shira Travel/Sensations, led by Mrs. Chavsie Friedman, her assistant Mrs. Faigy Gottleib and her head counselor Zoe Poznanski, is for girls
entering 6th – 8th grade. Special for this year, we took the entering 3rd – 5th graders and let them join that program with the launch of Travel Jr. and Sensations Jr.! First half is an action-packed travel program, and second half is called Shira Sensations and focuses on weekly skills classes in activities from volleyball to a variety of art to tennis to cooking! Each division has its own program uniquely suited to that age group. Our goal is for every camper to feel like the camp was specially designed for them! Sounds awesome! How many campers enjoy Camp Shira? We have over 300 kids in Camp Shira. Mostly girls, but our boys in nursery – Pre1A love the specialties we created just for them like sports and karate. Every bunk gets a schedule daily that is jam-
packed with fun activities, specialties and shows. Shira Travel and Shira Sensations sound like so much fun! Tell us a bit about it. We started this program last summer, and it was a huge hit. We made two distinct half summer programs that each offered unique activities and excitement. We wanted every girl who came for a half or for the whole thing to feel like every day was special and exciting. Some girls love the Travel component, and some girls can’t wait for the second half and learning new skills like tennis and cooking! You have a great campus in a great location. So true! We are located on the Shulamith campus right in the heart of the Five Towns. We have a huge auditorium for shows, a spacious back-
