Ed'Venture Camp

Yesterday started Madie's Ed'Venture Camp at IVCC (our local community college). The same place Noah had his lego camp. She went last year and just LOVED it! You get to pick a "major" that you to in the mornings each day, the different "minors" in for the afternoons. It's a little like going to college and it's just so fun! The major she picked this year was "Reading the Rocks" which is all about geology and they're going on a field trip to an area around the college to look for different kinds of rocks and fossils. And, if you know my daughter, she loves 2 things - the arts (singing, acting, dancing) and looking for rocks! So she is totally in her element.



We got their by 9am yesterday and today and got her signed in. Can you tell she's excited?!



This was a shot of half of the students waiting in their groups to get started. Don't know if you can see her, but she's at the very left in the black capris and she is easily a full head and a half shorter than everyone in her group! It's so funny! Don't know where she gets that from. ;-)




Camp lasts 6 hours every day, so we headed over to pick her up around 3. Yesterday, when I took this picture, she had just left her first minor class called "Feathered Friends". All about birds and bird-watching. They were given these bird feeders and a bird pamplet and got to go outside, use binoculars, and look for birds. She's really gotten into this lately and just had a ball. Today is Native American weaving. Excited to see what she brings home! On Thursday, camp ends, and instead of doing a minor that day, the entire camp does a presentation of all the majors that week. There are about 8-9 of them. We all get to go and see a slide show and everything. We love it and so does she, because that means she's on stage and there's no place she'd rather be than on the stage. So, I'll take more pictures at that. Until then, she'll just enjoy her fun-filled camp where she's learning all kinds of new and exciting things!