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Summer Theme: "We Are Nature!"
What a wondrous summer we enjoyed. At our beautiful South Cle Elum location we love the creek, the magic forest, playing countless games in the willow maze and in the wide open lawn where we gather each morning and afternoon to book end our day with gratitude, songs, our camp chant and sharing about ourselves and our experiences. As always, we loved hiking to the confluence of the Yakima and Cle Elum rivers accessible from the Palouse to Cascades trail, got to know new trails fondly called the "roller coaster/ banana slug" and "magic forest" trails, wrote in our journals in favorite spots overlooking the river plus enjoyed making crafts inspired by nature and utilizing natural materials. One week we took an amazing field trip to Dickey Creek in the Teanaway Community Forest!
In Roslyn, our preschool campers spent time in the Roslyn Community Garden at the Episcopal Church, took hikes along the Coal Mines Trail and into the Roslyn Urban Forest. We especially loved playing in the water and picking and eating raspberries and blueberries! We made some delicious recipes with bounty from the garden and the forest and enjoyed singing "The Soil Song" and reading stories about worms, insects and fungi and how everything in a garden works together to help things grow!
We are SO grateful to all the families who send their campers to our camps and to our amazing teaching staff who bring their unique gifts and talents to creating a rich, inspiring program that couples immersion in the natural world with embracing the individuality represented in each camp group building on their interests and energy every day. A HUGE thank you to our community partners who allow us to use their spaces and bus transportation and to local wildlife biologists who visit our camps to share their expertise enriching our learning and understanding of the places we visit and of the plants and animals who live there.
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