7th and 8th Graders Go to Wolf Ridge
FSM 7th and 8th graders just returned from their week-long trip to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center where they were immersed in nature exploration, cultural history, outdoor skills, team-building, and personal growth.
This is a trip that is wonderful for us as a community. It helps the students to think about themselves and their environment in new and thought-provoking ways. The trip—5 days away from home— is always a growth-filled trip for the students and one that continues to help them think and evolve throughout the year.
Teacher Veronica Guevara writes:
Saludos de Cadena de Lobos—Greetings from Wolf Ridge—
I am writing these notes from Wolf Ridge, in the early am and late pm hours, after our very full days of classes at the top of this ridge just a few miles from Lake Superior. This is my first time at Wolf Ridge, and I am awestruck by the beauty and intentionality of the place—that such a place exists, for the promotion of environmental education and stewardship—and that our community at FSM promotes and supports the 7th and 8th graders coming up here year after year. I feel privileged to be able to witness the joy and wonder of our students’ discovery in this very special place.
It was also wonderful to be able to visit David Abazs’ Round River CSA (community Supported Agriculture) farmwww.round-river.com, just a mile or so up the road from Wolf Ridge. This is becoming a ‘tradition’ for our Wolf Ridge trips, where we visit a working organic CSA. The students were able to see sustainability in practice in the solar panels, solar water heating, wind generated power, and surrounding fields. (And they also were able to play on David’s mini Field of Dreams Wiffle Ball field.)
I am grateful to all the parent chaperones--Wendy, Brian, Besty, and Mike--the students, families and staff that help us to be away for a week in the first month of school.
Gracias—
Veronica Guevara
Spanish Teacher