Sky Ranch

For those of you who do not have a 5th grader at Denton Creek, let me tell you a bit about Sky Ranch.  Every year the whole 5th grade class embarks on a 3 day field trip to a camp called Sky Ranch.  Did that scare you?  It was great.  I was lucky enough to have been chosen as a chaperone this year and was able to attend the camp with my daughter, Macy.  We had 5 lovely moms chaperoning my cabin of 18 girls.  What a great group of girls.  Other than the constant signing and chatter after lights out, we had not one problem. I was anticipating a ton of drama, what with having 18 5th grade girls crammed together for 3 days, but no.  NONE.  I heard the other cabin was just as good.  Now, the boys....... just kidding, I heard they were great, too.  Although, the dad to boy ratio was not nearly as good.  They only had 2 dads for each of the boy cabins.  I am betting they wished more dads would have signed up.

During the day, the kids were broken up into class groups and attended classes all day.  Some of the classes were; Ranch Life (got to learn about farm animals and ride horses), Native Americans (travelled back through time to see how the Native Americans lived many years ago), Limnology (the study of water...see, I learned something, too).  My group seemed to enjoy the Ranch Life the best.  Macy, my kiddo, is sort of obsessed with pigs and they had the cutest little pig to pet at the ranch.  It was great.  The kids in my class group paid close attention and asked really good questions.

It was exhausting but I think all the kids had a great time.  They learned a lot, they had a blast and most of all they bonded as a class, which will only help them as they transition into middle school.  Our children are blessed to have such wonderful teachers who take time away from their families to allow our kids to have an opportunity such as this. Mr Mac even drove in one day to spend the day with us and it was great to see him having fun (ask me how many snowcones he had in a one hour span......).

If you are ever given the chance to sign up to chaperone the Sky Ranch trip, I urge you to do it.  It will be an experience you never forget, at a time in your child's life where they still want you around.

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Lisa