Camp!

We spent 3 days in Van, TX at Sky Ranch Camp with 107 4th graders, 7 teachers, 1 nurse, and 35 chaperones! Each year we take our 4th graders. This year was really questionable because of the UIL ban due to swine flu. Luckily at the last minute, they let us go. Thank goodness, we would have lost $26,000 if they had said no! Here is our teacher cabin group. The teachers's cabin always rocks. We all sleep in one room together, eat, play games, talk (A LOT), and eat some more!

This year while the students were in one of their classes, they offered a "cattle drive" for any chaperones that wanted to go. Here we are all suited up with our helmets, ready to get on a horse. We think we looked pretty silly. Most of us have not spent much time on a horse, so this was pretty comical. We failed miserably at rounding up the cows. They got away from us twice and ran for the woods. I don't think we are giving up our day jobs any time soon.

Here I am holding a 4 year old baby turtle. This was part of the Luminology (pond life) class.

Here are several of the kids getting ready to look for pond life. They dig in the mud and see how many live creatures they can find. This proves whether or not the pond is a healthy environment. They love it! But we always have several that fall in the pond! :)

Normally we go to camp in December, but after a particularly cold and wet December 07 we decided to change our trip to May. This opened up the pools, to let the kids swim. This picture is actually me going down this AWESOME slide at the pools. I am the only teacher who got in the water, but it was totally worth it. That slide was fun!

We returned from camp Wednesday really tired. That is the only bad part is that we actually had to go back to school Thursday & Friday after all the traveling and lack of sleep.