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Oasis Elementary students raising $25,000 for science camp
By Kurt Schauppner
The Desert Trail
TWENTYNINE PALMS — If all goes well, 90 to 100 sixth-grade students from Oasis Elementary School will spend four days in May learning hand-on lessons in environmental science at Camp Highland Outdoor Science Camp in Cherry Valley.
Sixth-grade teachers Julie Fontana and Jake Possehl are hoping their students can attend the science camp which, according to its Web site, teaches children how the decisions people make affect other people and the planet as a whole.
“As adults around the globe struggle to find solutions for current crises, children from all over Southern California are finding their own solutions at Camp Highland Outdoor Schience School,” theWeb site notes. “Students analyze their daily decisions to see how they can help one another succeed as future stewwards of the Earth. Lessons are learned on our trails, where we discuss the importance of our natural resources to the natural world ariound us and to our own communities.”
Before that can happen, though, Fontana and Possehl will have to raise enough money to help those students whose families can’t afford to pay the $240 per student fee to attend the camp.
They have set a goal of raising $25,000 and have already brought in $8,000, Fontana said Thursday, Jan. 28 during a break from teaching.
Those looking to help them raise that money may want to check out a yard sale at Oasis Elementary School, 73175 El Paseo Drive, from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 6.
Oasis Elementary students who want to help the cause will want to attend a dance for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19.
Parents who want to help may want to take part in a schoolwide frozen food sale or, when they go to school activities, look for and purchase food and other items from those raising funds for the trip.
“We’ve been involved at every single school event, trying to sell something,” Fontana said.
Fontana had kind words to say about the support she and Possehl have gotten from other staff members at the school.
“It’s almost like it is a school-wide effort to get those 6th graders to camp,” she said.
“This is such a big opportunity for the students,” Fontana said. “All of the instructors have masters degrees in science.”
She added that, for many of the students, this will mark a first trip outside the Morongo Basin.
Once they get to the camp, she said, students will be put into groups and taken on hikes along trails where they will get to do some of what she called exploratory learning, learning life science and environmental science lessons with hands-on activities.
For more information, call Fontana at Oasis Elementary School at (760) 367-3595.
Comments? Questions? E-mail Kurt Schauppner at kurts@deserttrail.com
Sixth-grade teachers Julie Fontana and Jake Possehl are hoping their students can attend the science camp which, according to its Web site, teaches children how the decisions people make affect other people and the planet as a whole.
“As adults around the globe struggle to find solutions for current crises, children from all over Southern California are finding their own solutions at Camp Highland Outdoor Schience School,” theWeb site notes. “Students analyze their daily decisions to see how they can help one another succeed as future stewwards of the Earth. Lessons are learned on our trails, where we discuss the importance of our natural resources to the natural world ariound us and to our own communities.”
Before that can happen, though, Fontana and Possehl will have to raise enough money to help those students whose families can’t afford to pay the $240 per student fee to attend the camp.
They have set a goal of raising $25,000 and have already brought in $8,000, Fontana said Thursday, Jan. 28 during a break from teaching.
Those looking to help them raise that money may want to check out a yard sale at Oasis Elementary School, 73175 El Paseo Drive, from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 6.
Oasis Elementary students who want to help the cause will want to attend a dance for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19.
Parents who want to help may want to take part in a schoolwide frozen food sale or, when they go to school activities, look for and purchase food and other items from those raising funds for the trip.
“We’ve been involved at every single school event, trying to sell something,” Fontana said.
Fontana had kind words to say about the support she and Possehl have gotten from other staff members at the school.
“It’s almost like it is a school-wide effort to get those 6th graders to camp,” she said.
“This is such a big opportunity for the students,” Fontana said. “All of the instructors have masters degrees in science.”
She added that, for many of the students, this will mark a first trip outside the Morongo Basin.
Once they get to the camp, she said, students will be put into groups and taken on hikes along trails where they will get to do some of what she called exploratory learning, learning life science and environmental science lessons with hands-on activities.
For more information, call Fontana at Oasis Elementary School at (760) 367-3595.
Comments? Questions? E-mail Kurt Schauppner at kurts@deserttrail.com
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ramen wrote on Feb 5, 2010 11:26 AM:
This is our future we are helping out! "