Last Week of the Season

Well, the end of the fall season has arrived. It turned out to be a really good week. We had 36 6th graders. They came from a Jewish school in Massachusetts. The week for all of started out a it rough. The students were very chatty and had troubles listening. Part of the problem was that they were all grouped with their friends.
One of my students was particularly challenging, her name was Zuzzie. She was from a very wealthy family, but not very attentive family. She was on a strong medication for ADHD and her parents pulled her off of it the day before she came to camp. Normally one would be weaned off of it over several months. For this reason she was having withdrawal symptoms as well as acting strangely. For example, one day during field group she turned into a chicken for awhile. It was strangely realistic. She quickly adopted me as her mother this week and often ended up in my classes whether she signed up for them or not.
Thankfully as a whole the last 2 days of field group went well. One night we even had a pj fashion show with all the girls. They also had wonderful teachers with them. This was the schools first time coming to natures classroom, and they really loved it. On the last day they had a ceremony for all of the natures classroom teachers. It was there version of a Jewish graduation/thank you. All of the students made us pictures with our names, pictures, and the qualities they loved about us.

In other news, I am currently on the road. I picked up my mom today from the airport and we began the drive. Today we stopped in York, PA. For the most part the drive went well. We didn't get lost in the confusion of New York and Jersey! Tomorrow we will finish the drive to Michigan. I am looking forward to being home for awhile.

As usual, here a few pictures from the week: