6th Grade Camp

Pictures

2007-02-17T14:41:00.000-08:00

It's Thursday!

2007-02-15T15:05:00.000-08:00

Never fear, moms, dads, and siblings; your beloved 6th graders (whom I'm sure you have been pining for every day) return tomorrow!

Buttercup is going to be emailing me photos to post of yesterday and today's activities. Hopefully I will have them up by tonight!

Yesterday was amazingrace day, and the Purple, Blue, and Light Blue tribes tied for first place. We're going to have to ask them if going to Mass in the middle of the day helped unify their tribes.

This morning the students competed in the Plagues Relay, which is a crazy (yet awesome) reenactment of the plagues on Egypt. Each leg of the relay is representative of a plague in some way. Words don't really do it justice... someday I am going to post video. YouTube, anyone? The White, Yellow, and Green tribes were victorious over the plagues. What that mostly means is that you should look for members of those tribes in the 90th Annual Academy Awards in 2018.

Sorry this is short (I know... it's weird for Cupcake to be short!), but I will add more when I have pictures to post!

You are loved!

Baby It's Cold Outside

2007-02-13T17:11:00.000-08:00

Greetings from the cold mountain top! Whispering Winds gladly welcomes Sacred Heart School, Brawley, St. Mary's, Escondido, and St. John of the Cross, Lemon Grove to our 6th Grade Camp. There are over 100 6th graders here and we are having a wonderful week so far.

Yesterday was an exciting day of meeting new people, getting into our tribes, finding our "tree-mail", creating our tribe flag, re-enacting the parables of Jesus, going on a night hike, and closing with prayers for our friends and families. It was a little colder than we anticipated but we had hot and melty s'mores to warm ourselves up.

Tuesday is a blustery, rainy, and SNOWY day! Yes, it snowed today! It also hailed all afternoon and looked like Dip-n-Dots falling from the sky. We traded our morning hike for a movie and popcorn. We watched "Akeelah and the Bee" which is a true story about a 6th grader who wins the National Spelling Bee. We brought our pillows and sleeping bags to the warm and cozy conference room and enjoyed the movie while it snowed outside.

Then we learned about various exotic animals from Jessie and Wild Wonders. We were able to see and touch a Porcupine, Bearded Dragon, Hairy Armadillo, Kinkajou, Alligator, and a Chinchilla! Everyone got to touch the Alligator named Gucci. It was pretty awesome.

We all rested after lunch and the amazing hail storm and then we were off to crafts to create beautiful bead necklaces/bracelets, rope rosaries, lanyards, etc.

Tonight is our talent show and I am sure we will be highly entertained!

We start each morning off with morning praise where we sing our praises to God and have a chance to dance a little too.

Tomorrow is our Amazing Race day! Which tribes will win??? To be continued...

Words words words.

2006-11-15T11:55:00.000-08:00

I'm taking a quick break from working to write some words.

Camp is going very well this week! We are having a lot of fun. Currently, all the tribes are out competing in the "AMAZINGRACE," which is one of my favorite things ever. We had a fascinating class yesterday about wild animals, and we will hopefully be posting more pictures sooon!

The talent show was spectacular. Our praise and worship last night was great. It's windy today, but not too cold... Good times all around!

6th Grade November 13-17 2006

2006-11-14T09:52:00.002-08:00

Here are the latest 6th graders participating at the Whispering Winds Retreat. Notre Dame Academy from San Diego and Pope John XXIII Catholic School (Scottsdale, AZ) students are having a great time learning about our God in his beautiful wilderness.

Sacred Heart / St. Jude Monday

2006-05-22T21:02:00.000-07:00

It was SO COLD today!!!

We're still working out the camera issue, but we've been having a great day. Everyone is having a lot of fun, in spite of the cold.

God's Photo Album

2006-05-18T22:36:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Morning

2006-05-16T10:04:00.000-07:00

It's so lovely out today...

We had a herd of goats come through this morning during morning praise. That was interesting.
Everyone is out finding pictures for God's Photo Album at the moment. We're coming up on our first wilderness class at 11. The California Wolf Preservation will be coming to teach us about the life cycle of wolves.

More posting and hopefully pictures later!!

GOD IS GOOD.

Our Lady's Monday

2006-05-15T20:41:00.000-07:00

It was a beautiful Monday today! The weather was great: sunny and warm, but not too hot.

Our Lady's 6th graders arrived around 10 this morning. We spent the day getting to know our Tribes (Holy Spirit / St. Hiripoly, Magnificat / Faith Magic, and Burning Bush / Brushing Buns) and creating our ideal communities. We had some free time and explored the camp, including breaking in the new water slide!
After dinner, we shared our day's work with each other and went on a great hike around the area.

Sorry -- no pictures today because the camera was out of commission.

2006-05-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is an example post from previous 6th grade camps. Check back in the next couple of weeks for updates from Our Lady's (May 15-19), and St. Jude and Sacred Heart (May 22-26)!