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Did you know that Sisters Middle School has an Outdoor
School
program still? Well, it does, and here's how it's set up: the 6th
Graders
get on a bus, arrive at camp, meet their High School counselors, and do
team
building activities over a four day period with classmates. They sleep in cabins every night with a group of four
or
five other kids. The main instructor of 6th Grade Outdoor School
is
a 6th Grade teacher, Carol Packard. The other 6th Grade teachers
(
Mr. Estvold and Mr. Cox) come along as well, and help out with
activities.
The days that this happens are May 4th-May 7th. Click Here to see
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The activities are beading, hairwrapping, friendship
bracelets,
tye dying, drumming, pottery, music/songwriting/poetry, and mask
making.
In beading the kids use seed beads, pony beads, wire, and pliers to
create
objects and jewelry. In hairwrapping they use embroidery thread, and
wrap
strands of hair with color. In friendship bracelets they braid
bracelets
for wrists, ankles, necks, and more... In tye dying they dye their
shirts,
socks, and more... In drumming they create sounds and music with
buckets,
drums, and percussion in a group. In pottery they learn the technique
of
clay sculpting and each student creates something of their very own. In
the music/songwriting/poetry class the kids write poetry, turn it into
a
song, and present to the camp for evening campfire. The mask making
activity
is where the kids make plaster masks of their own face, paint it, and
on
the last day, they glue on the final touches, and it's finished. Mask
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The students' day consists of breakfast, activities,
lunch,
more activities, and dinner at the end of the day. Every night of
Outdoor
School the kids go to bed at 10:30 pm, and every morning they wake up
at
7:00 am, or they can wake up at 6:00 am to do the "Early Bird Run",
which
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Outdoor School is located at Camp Tamarack, which is located about 5
miles from Suttle Lake, which is about 25 miles form Sisters. It is
located right next to Dark Lake, which is the lake you see in the
pictures. There is also a corral, which is where an activity involving
trust, takes place. Also, the
pictures of kids working with clay take place in a little building
right next
to the lake and the infirmary. The drumming activity is the one where
there
are people on drums in a half indoor/ half outdoor structure. The
cabins are
located just to the side of the main lodge, which has the road leading
in
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