Both Isaac and Lizzy have been to day camp this week. Isaac chose to go to Chess Camp - and it's definately been a good choice for him.
Isaac began getting interested in Chess earlier in the year. He was coming home from school and telling us he'd been playing chess at school. Since then, he's borrowed nearly every chess book from school and last week we even borrowed a chess DVD from the library. It wasn't a hard decision to make, when we saw there was a chess camp during summer.
He's been coming home most afternoons with lollies/candy. Each time they win a game, they recieved a toothpick and when they got 3 toothpicks they could choose a candy. The person who won the most toothpicks over the week was the winner at camp. Overall, he came 3rd against all the little campers. Naturally he was very proud of himself. However, Ben & I smiled at each other when he annouced that he could have come 1st or 2nd but he never got to play against the winners. Obviously he thought he would have been able to beat them too!
The coach of the chess camp suggested that Isaac might like to come back another week, and join the harder camp. Not surprisingly, Isaac beamed and wants to go back to Chess Camp.
2 comments:
Lovely!! Jesse is in chess club at school! They play every Thursday at lunch time. I have no idea how good he is because Jon and I have no idea how to play. We will have to make sure there is a chess set around next time you visit and the boys get together.
Mel
Wonderful! Isaac will love to have someone to play against when we come home.
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