Camping for learning
Teacher Mary Bailey and Wiscasset’s Lucas Tarrance, 6, look
at a book together. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
From left, fourth grader Connor Knight and fifth graders Aja Lescault and Noah Ruzyckij. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
WES’s Cindy Collamore and Justin Styles help at the event. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Art teacher Donna Barnes and athletic director Warren Cossette talk before the start of the Oct. 17 event. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
A fire made of paper helps with the night’s camping theme. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Music teacher Carole Drury sings songs students have been learnIng this school year. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Teacher Mary Bailey and Wiscasset’s Lucas Tarrance, 6, look
at a book together. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
From left, fourth grader Connor Knight and fifth graders Aja Lescault and Noah Ruzyckij. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
WES’s Cindy Collamore and Justin Styles help at the event. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Art teacher Donna Barnes and athletic director Warren Cossette talk before the start of the Oct. 17 event. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
A fire made of paper helps with the night’s camping theme. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Music teacher Carole Drury sings songs students have been learnIng this school year. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset Elementary School students were fishing, making s’mores, singing by a campfire and taking to tents Wednesday night, Oct. 17. The fishing was a matching game of rhyming words; the campfire was colored paper and the tents where students read by flashlight or did yoga made a camping theme the school started planning in June, staff said.
For the s'mores, attendees had to follow measurements, part of the night of math and reading in the gym, Principal Stacy White said. She later said turnout totaled about 200.
“The feedback was overwhelmingly positive,” with parents calling it a fantastic, well-planned evening that appropriately served various age levels, she added.
White said Ames True Value, Big Al’s, Shaw’s and Reny’s donated to the event and Partners in Education (PIE) provided the food.
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