We cooked all of our own food; we split the kids into "cook groups" and that one group was responsible for feeding the entire camp for one meal. My group was in charge of Thursday lunch. We made quesadillas with sauteed bell peppers and onions, mixed with black beans and corn and salsa, all in a lovely tortilla.
Here is another one of our students flipping those tortillas! 5th graders are alot more capable than you think!!
On Thursday and Friday we held classes, math, art, english, and poetry. I taught the math class and we talked about different kinds of graphs. They constructed a bar graph based on who could collect the most sticks for the campfire in 1 min. They then constructed a line graph on the number of times they could jump rope or hula hoop in 15 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 60 sec. These are our final product!
Don't they look like they are hard at work? They stayed pretty focused, which goes to show us what being outstide does to us.
Lastly, here is Ms. Amanda with some of our 4th girls in our tent. They were excited to have a slumber party every night with all their friends! Ms. Amanda and myself didn't have the idea of a slumber party really...more like a everyone stop talking and go to sleep party. That idea doesn't really go over well with 4th grade girls, much less girls of any age:)