What is That?

This morning I arrived at work about 10 minutes earlier than usual. It's the first day back from April vacation for most of our kids and I had some things I wanted to set up. We are beginning a study on Camping.

On Friday I had gone to work to cover child care and while I was there, I took out the table, chairs, and the kitchen. In its place, I put out some of the camping materials I had. Today I set up a small, real, 3 man tent and finished arranging the materials in our campsite. I was surprised at how many children asked me "What is that?"

These children come from some questionable homes, but it never occurred to me that they wouldn't know what a tent is. I had assumed that given the amount of TV these children watch, they would have at least seen some cartoon or other about camping. It should be an interesting trek through the magical world of camping as we explore this topic over the next 5 weeks. Looks like we're starting at ground zero!