As you know, students will be heading off to @ Camp Arroyo in Livermore within the next month. Technically, we leave a month from TODAY.
We have a few "next" steps in the process.
1st STEP-- Student Survey
I explained this entire process to my class and Mr. Newell's class on Friday. I encouraged all of the students to please go home this weekend and talk to their parents about how to make great survey selections.
Students will be given an opportunity to complete a survey where they will select their top three peers that they would like to have in their cabin group. They may choose any three like gender students in 5th grade, and they are NOT limited to just the students in our class.
As a teaching team, we will spend numerous hours analyzing all 130 survey responses and try our darndest to match everyone with one of their top three selections as we create cabin groups. We understand cabin time is where the students will spend all of their evenings, sleeping and early morning time (plus two 30-45 minute periods during the daytime) therefore we want everyone to have at least one buddy in their cabin.
During the day-time, the teachers place students into adventure groups where two-three chaperones and a camp naturalist will operate daily classes & activities (e.g., hike up to Cresta Blanca, discover life near a stream, etc.). We try our best in those smaller adventure groups to create classes with an equal amount of class diversity and behavior students.
Long story long, students should think about which three other students they believe they can most respectfully, comfortably and cheerfully co-exist within their cabin group. While at camp it is still a K-12 environment, therefore, student safety, a positive learning environment, and civility are always paramount. They will complete the survey tomorrow morning.
2nd STEP -- Drivers
We need drivers to get to and return to camp.
We leave DES promptly at 11:30 on Tuesday, December 12th.
We leave Camp Arroyo in Livermore promptly at 12:45 on Friday, December 15th.
3rd STEP -- Get more information
Here is the manual that they have created for chaperones, I believe this manual does a great job of explaining day to day life and has a tad bit more information for those parents that want to do the inside scoop.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard
