Backpacking

By Cody Ballweber, Grade 7
During outdoor school Mrs. Snow, myself and 11 other kids went backpacking on the Appalachian Trail.  Mr. Snow invited, Morley Thomas as a guest speaker to talk to us.  He has hiked all the Northern New England portions of the Appalachian Trail.  Then we left for the trail.  We hiked up to the Sabbath Day Pond lean to.  We met two hikers at the Sabbath Day Pond lean to.  One of the guys had a trail named "The Poet".  The next day one of the counselors had a moose right in front of her tent.  Later that day we fed birds right out of our hands.  Then we hiked to the tent site.  The next morning we left and got to the van.  We got back to Lawroweld.

Lakes & Ponds
By Bradley Sica, Grade 6

I studied lakes and ponds in Camp Lawroweld.  We got to catch crayfish and frogs.  We also made an aquarium.  We found the temperature of the water by putting the thermometer in the aquarium.  We also waded in the water and caught livings things.  The instructor was Mrs. Wall.  She is very nice.  Her assistant was Judy (I don't know her last name.).
I love to learn about lakes and ponds.  We had to close our eyes and write down what we heard, when we opened our eyes we had to write what we saw.