Camping at Silver Lake

I was one of the lucky chosen parents (got my form in first) who got to attend the grade 4/5 camping overnighter. We had 12 parents, 2 teachers and about 60 kids. What a great time we had! It was so well organized which always impresses me, and left not a lot of time for craziness or unexpected incidents to happen. Don't get me wrong, I like craziness in good forms, but not wild and uncontrolled craziness with large groups of children. The kids rotated through different outdoorsy activities in their smaller groups. Our group did a pond study, looking at various bugs that live along the shore's edge, a crash course in canoeing before sending them off on the lake in partners, a forestry activity learning all about local trees, logger games which included using a long cross saw, hiking, and orienteering. I had lots of reminiscing moments of my months teaching Outdoor Ed. at Pioneer Lodge to school groups just like ours. Those were fun times! It was so similar and I was happy that Jacob could have the same experience.

Packed and ready to go!

Jacob's teacher gets intensely excited about bugs during the pond study

A little canoeing

Trying the cross cut logger's saw

Hiking