Joshua Tree National Park

Dear Friends,
    Over the long vacation a few students and I had the opportunity to go camping in Joshua Tree National Park with volunteers from the Sierra Club.  We had an incredible campsite that backed up to a large mountain of boulders.  The students were able to explore, climb, and build their confidence in the process. After learning how to set up a campsite we spent 2 days exploring many great hikes throughout the park.  The Sierra Club volunteers even took us on a night hike, where the kiddos saw geckos, snakes, tarantulas, and owls.  We talked about the desert biome & the students were able to use what they learned in our science unit and apply it to this experience. 
     We are so grateful to the Sierra Club & the great volunteers for making this experience possible. 
     The online news site, Speak City Heights, came out to join us for a day & will be publishing a piece on our trip.  I will post a link to the site when the story has been posted.  The story & our class might also make it onto PBS again!

Setting up our campsite.

Exploring the rock scrambles around our campsite.

Kyi & Sam inside the hollow rock.

Broc & Javhi in the hollow rock.