Fifth Grade Field Trip to the Outdoor School

In the spring, students travel to College Settlement Camp in Horsham for one exciting day of learning, fun, and friendship.  ** Yes you, fifth grader, reading on your iPad.  YOU have been chosen to go with your friends on a morning-to-night outdoor excursion! You will travel on a beautiful and spacious yellow school bus to the College Settlement Camp in Horsham!**

Students grow as individuals and as a team by participating in group challenges that enable them to succeed in tasks that could only be offered in a camp-like setting. Students play Gaga, create skits, go on scavenger hunts and celebrate around a campfire while getting the opportunity to interact with classmates and teachers in a different environment.

Here, the classroom walls vanish as outdoor group lessons extend concepts learned throughout the year into the living environment surrounding us. The science curriculum is heavily extended throughout the students' interactions with nature's biotic and abotic parts. You will be able to spend one-on-one time with animals in the Eco-center.  Your teachers and camp counselors will teach lessons on orienteering, Native American lifestyles, water health, nature survival, energy, animals, using your senses, etc. 

If you don't think that you can 'rough it' for the day- don't worry, you won't have to.  The food is outstanding and the day is packed with fun.  This doesn't mean that you won't have music. We sing a lot and your teachers may be forced to dance - who wouldn't want to see that?

This is an opportunity of a lifetime and a trip that you will never forget!!!