This week, we welcomed back our sixth grade adventurers! I am including a few pictures from the Bournedale experience to give you just a small glimpse into the special experience this week-long excursion provides.
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Each morning began with a hearty breakfast in the dining hall overlooking the water.
After breakfast, Patrick, the Camp Bournedale director would ask for a few of the students to review the study group assignments for the day.
When I visited on Wednesday, I was lucky enough to join these two study groups to go on the Lobster Tales boat!
Our tour guide showed us how the lobster trap works and helped us to identify male and female lobsters and crabs.
Students were able to hold sand crabs, spider crabs, lobsters, and hermit crabs as our guide removed them from the lobster trap.
Though some of the spider crabs were pretty large and looked a little intimidating, students eagerly held them and observed them closely.
Here students are looking at a tautog or black fish as they are commonly called, similar to cod.
After the excursions and experiments in the morning, students had some time for recreation and either were on the field, going for a walk together, playing basketball, and even fishing on this particular beautiful day as the evanescent summer passes.
After lunch, students explored how the variations in air pressure can cause unexpected things to happen.
During this experiment, students explored surface tension and saw how water molecules will be attracted to other water molecules. In this particular picture, students are then "breaking" the surface tension,
While students are in their study groups for a portion of each day in the mornings and the afternoons, there were also plenty of opportunities to come together as a whole sixth grade class.
This group is literally, jumping for joy to be at Camp Bournedale! (Thank you to photographer, Ms. Haughey for capturing this action shot!)
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