As many of you may have heard from the excited buzz of your children, the Wolves will soon be going on an overnight camping trip! This trip will serve not only as an incredible community building activity, but also give students the opportunity to challenge themselves both physically and mentally. Camping together this early in the year is exciting, as it will foster your child’s growing independence. I am personally thrilled to spend this time with the class and have the opportunity to watch their independence continue to grow between this early overnight and our extended trip at the end of the year. What a perfect way to work together, push our limits as individuals and as a team, and use the natural world as our classroom. With the goals of personal growth and team building as well as our water curriculum in mind, students have worked together to come up with an itinerary that includes canoeing, orienteering, wetland activities, shelter building, cooking over an open fire, a night hike, and much more!
The trip will take place on September 19th at Lake Macbride. We will leave Willowwind at 8:45am on the 19th and will return by the end of the school day on the 20th. Carly, Christine (our new Movement teacher who has worked with School of the Wild at Lake Macbride), and I will be chaperoning the trip. In terms of group supplies, we are in need of tents and canoe transportation (Lake Macbride’s boat rental will be closed for repairs and we therefore need to rent canoes from another location). If you have either a tent that we can borrow or a way to transport canoes, please email me as soon as possible. In the coming weeks, students will work together to create a packing list and plan menus for every meal. I will send these details out when the students finalize plans but please let me know if you have any questions in the mean time.
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