Week 7: April 24th-27th, Reflecting on Outdoor School

5/4/2022

This week we served four different schools across four different districts (Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Seaside, and Hillsboro) and visited ten different schools, parks, and natural areas across the region!

We are now just over half way through our Spring 2022 session and while Day Programming is different than our traditional residential Outdoor School, it has still been an amazing time working with 5th and 6th graders and connecting them to the natural world.

Sometimes people ask the question, "What makes Outdoor School special" and there are just so many answers! But a few of the highlights are:

Banana Slugs
Student Leaders (seriously, they make everything possible!)
Finding newts and frogs and crawdads and caddisfly houses while exploring aquatic ecosystems
Campfire!
The amazing staff
Night hikes
Trying new things
Making new friends
Getting to be your best self!
Sproutball
Learning about science and nature in beautiful places
Fun, fun, and more fun!