A Beautiful Day for Camping

This is the first week of our Camping study. Today was a beautiful day, sunny and 70 degrees out, so we spent the whole day outside. We packed up the tent and other camping supplies we had in our classroom and set them all up outside. Unfortunately, we don't have too many trees on our playground and for purposes of monitoring and because we share the playground with the three other classrooms in the building, we set up the tent in a separate area from the rest of the playground.

The children loved using the real wood logs to create a pretend campfire. They used the frying pan that is made for camping to cook all of their pretend food before serving it to their friends. All of the extra food was stored in the cooler so that it would all stay fresh.

Very few of our children, if any, have ever been camping. It was surprising how involved some of the play scenarios became, especially since we have just begun to discuss camping. We have lots of activities planned to explore tents, camping materials, camping activities and the great outdoors! You can find a calendar of what we're doing here.