Typical Counselor Day
A typical day for a cabin counselor/activity instructor at Camp Mohawk is long and eventful.
Daily Schedule
| 7:20 | Reveille: Make sure your campers are awake and getting dressed |
| 7:45 | Slingers & Call to Flag Raising: Your cabin is behind their benches and ready to start the day with the pledge and a devotion led by a different cabin group daily. Unit Leaders will collect Daily Health Check before leaving unit. One or two campers from each cabin set the table before each meal time. |
| 8:00 | Breakfast: Make sure that all campers are accounted for. Assure proper manners and friendly conversations. Counselors sit in the middle of a bench to ensure good communication with the girls at all meals. |
| 8:30 | Cabin Clean Up: Ensure that the campers are cleaning the cabin and they know where they are going each period. |
| 9:00 | Period 1: Start and end on time, take careful attendance, report campers not present to the office within the first ten minutes of classes, follow lesson plans, and create an atmosphere of fun, energy, enthusiasm, safety, and achievement. |
| 10:05 | Period 2 |
| 11:10 | Period 3 |
| 12:15 | Slingers to Dining Hall |
| 12:30 | Lunch: Same as breakfast. Listen to Op Rec announcements. |
| 1:10 | Siesta: In your cabin with your campers to monitor them during their rest time. |
| 2:00 | Period 4: Return to teach, refreshed and energetic |
| 3:00 | Cabin Activity led by Cabin Counselor: First two days are teambuilding activities, then creative, fun, energetic activities planned by each counselor. |
| 4:00 | Optional Rec Optional Open Program Areas: Prepare and offer fun activities, supervise and clean up your activity areas. Waterfront staff and lifeguards on duty at this time. |
| 5:00 | Campers back to cabins: Prepare campers for dinner and prepare for evening activities. |
| 5:15 | Flag lowering. Make sure all campers are present. |
| 5:30 | Dinner: Same as all meal periods. |
| 6:10 | Store, Free Time, some staff on duty in Units, others time off. This responsibility rotates throughout the week. |
| 6:50 | Evening Program Unit, Cabin Activity, or All-Camp Activity: participate entshusiastically and help return camp to readiness for next day. End all activities with the Evening Circle. |
| 8:30 | Campers back to Units, Cabin Devotions: Lead cabin in a meaningful group devotion with enthusiasm and meaning. Establish a mood for reflection and sharing. |
| 9:20 | Taps: Help you campers settle down, read a story, chat quietly, get ready to sleep. |
| 9:20-10:00 | Lights Out: Counselors stay in their cabin the first three nights of each session. Beginning Wednesday of the first week, Unit Leaders will release staff from their cabins after 10:00pm when possible. Staff released from their cabins have time off until 11:30 pm curfew. |
