First Post

So blogging is something that I have not been into until recently. My sisters' blog is one that I follow very closely and have enjoyed seeing it change. Some of you may not know, but I teach Social Studies at an Alternative Campus. Now some may think that I work in a dangerous environment, but really it is an awesome opportunity to work with students who just need a little encouragement and direction. So onto the main reason that I am starting this blog; Camping. At the end of last year I was thinking about what it is that I do here. Do I just teach Social Studies, or am I here to help students become ready for there future? So I decided that I wanted to teach my students things that I learned when I was growing up about character and maturity. I learned about these things through camping with my family growing up. Long story short a co-teacher and I wrote a grant to create a camping trip and we received the money to do this. The picture you see here is one of the first trip ever taken with the money received. Now, we are getting ready to take our second trip this weekend, and this will be a girls camping trip. Before you freak out, we do have enough female sponsors to cover everything.

This is another picture from the first camping trip of all the guys working with the metal detector.

I guess I should explain the name C.E.L.L. That is the title of the camping program and it stands for Camp, Experience, Learn, and Live. That is what we want from our students, we want for these trips to introduce them to things that they may not have experienced before, and then take that knowledge and live.