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!
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Setting up our campsite. |
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Exploring the rock scrambles around our campsite. |
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Kyi & Sam inside the hollow rock. |
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Broc & Javhi in the hollow rock. |