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Sam and Charlie (and Sam Too)
Sam and Charlie (and Sam too) Go to Camp
Best friends Sam and Charlie are headed to sleepaway camp for the first time! Each day brings something new—from swimming and nature hikes to camp songs and FOAM day! At camp, Sam and Charlie learn the importance of shomrei adamah, taking care of the earth, and taking care of friendships, new and old.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2015
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February 6, 2020
Sam and Charlie go to Sleepaway camp for a week. Sam Too is too little to join them. The book has a chapter for each day of the week.
On Sunday (or Yom One - the book explains that Yom is the Hebrew word for Day) Charlie arrives at camp she hugs her little sister and heads over to the girl section. She is already homesick but finds a letter from her family including a note by Sam Too who says she is camp sick (since she can't go). Then the girls and their counselor head out to go swimming and Charlie sees Sam.
On Monday Sam and Charlie (who are both good swimmers compete to be first to swim to Iceberg Rock and climb to the top. Each one takes the lead at different points but in the end they climb up together and that evening are given the Camp Spirit award.
On Tuesday Sam and his bunkmates have to clean their cabin. Their counselor suggests that they think of it as shmirat ha'adamah which is taking care of the earth. Sam jokes that it is take the earth outside. Meanwhile at home Sam Too's room is dirty. Her mother says she doesn't want to see the mess when she gets back and she doesn't since Sam Too pushes it all under the bed.
On Wednesday one of Charlie's bunkmates, Caren, is not happy on the nature walk complaining about most everything. When Caren goes to squash an ant Charlie saves it saying this ant might be important. They finally get to a clearing and see Sam and his bunkmates. When a rainbow appears overhead even Caren is finally happy in nature. Meanwhile Sam Too is at home catching frogs and sees the rainbow and wonders if the other side of the rainbow is in Charlie's camp.
On Thursday a firetruck came and sprayed the camp not with water but with foam and the kids got to play in it.
On Friday it was a rainy day. The kids do crafts. Charlie's hair gets frizzy but Sam doesn't tease her since he knows she is senstive to that. They then make challah. Charlie is good at braiding the dough since she has practice braiding Sam Too's hair. Although some of the loaves land on the ground and Sam's loaf didn't rise there are still plenty of loaves for Shabbat dinner that night. The kids say Sabbath prayers and then later learn camp songs like Boom Chicka Boom and John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. They look at the stars once it stops raining and find the Big Dipper. The chapter ends by telling us that "Shabbat peace was all around."
On Saturday it is the day of rest at camp. Everyone slept late and there is a Shabbat service. Afterwords some kids go to play while Sam goes to a Shabbat Tree House Hour which is a one-hour Shabbat discussion in an amazing tree house. Next they get camp mail. Charlie tells Sam that camp was more fun because he was there. While Sam writes Charlie saying "Foamy or muddy, you're still my buddy!"
On Sunday Sam and Charlie have one last swim in the lake, one last breakfast and one last cabin clean up. When Sam Too and her parents come to pick up Charlie, Sam Too tells her sister that she likes it better when her sister is around and that she hopes she can go to camp next year. Her sister has an idea so with Sam they create Camp Bayit (Bayit meaning home in Hebrew) where they do crafts, sing camp songs, and squirt foam from cans and ate lots of smores. Sam Too loved and Sam says "Yeah, and you didn't even need to clean your room" to which Sam Too responds "I will later. Counselor Mom said so." (so apparently she found the mess under the bed)
On Sunday (or Yom One - the book explains that Yom is the Hebrew word for Day) Charlie arrives at camp she hugs her little sister and heads over to the girl section. She is already homesick but finds a letter from her family including a note by Sam Too who says she is camp sick (since she can't go). Then the girls and their counselor head out to go swimming and Charlie sees Sam.
On Monday Sam and Charlie (who are both good swimmers compete to be first to swim to Iceberg Rock and climb to the top. Each one takes the lead at different points but in the end they climb up together and that evening are given the Camp Spirit award.
On Tuesday Sam and his bunkmates have to clean their cabin. Their counselor suggests that they think of it as shmirat ha'adamah which is taking care of the earth. Sam jokes that it is take the earth outside. Meanwhile at home Sam Too's room is dirty. Her mother says she doesn't want to see the mess when she gets back and she doesn't since Sam Too pushes it all under the bed.
On Wednesday one of Charlie's bunkmates, Caren, is not happy on the nature walk complaining about most everything. When Caren goes to squash an ant Charlie saves it saying this ant might be important. They finally get to a clearing and see Sam and his bunkmates. When a rainbow appears overhead even Caren is finally happy in nature. Meanwhile Sam Too is at home catching frogs and sees the rainbow and wonders if the other side of the rainbow is in Charlie's camp.
On Thursday a firetruck came and sprayed the camp not with water but with foam and the kids got to play in it.
On Friday it was a rainy day. The kids do crafts. Charlie's hair gets frizzy but Sam doesn't tease her since he knows she is senstive to that. They then make challah. Charlie is good at braiding the dough since she has practice braiding Sam Too's hair. Although some of the loaves land on the ground and Sam's loaf didn't rise there are still plenty of loaves for Shabbat dinner that night. The kids say Sabbath prayers and then later learn camp songs like Boom Chicka Boom and John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. They look at the stars once it stops raining and find the Big Dipper. The chapter ends by telling us that "Shabbat peace was all around."
On Saturday it is the day of rest at camp. Everyone slept late and there is a Shabbat service. Afterwords some kids go to play while Sam goes to a Shabbat Tree House Hour which is a one-hour Shabbat discussion in an amazing tree house. Next they get camp mail. Charlie tells Sam that camp was more fun because he was there. While Sam writes Charlie saying "Foamy or muddy, you're still my buddy!"
On Sunday Sam and Charlie have one last swim in the lake, one last breakfast and one last cabin clean up. When Sam Too and her parents come to pick up Charlie, Sam Too tells her sister that she likes it better when her sister is around and that she hopes she can go to camp next year. Her sister has an idea so with Sam they create Camp Bayit (Bayit meaning home in Hebrew) where they do crafts, sing camp songs, and squirt foam from cans and ate lots of smores. Sam Too loved and Sam says "Yeah, and you didn't even need to clean your room" to which Sam Too responds "I will later. Counselor Mom said so." (so apparently she found the mess under the bed)
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