Wednesday 2 April 2014

School Days

My school district sponsors an annual overnight field trip for our gifted and talented fifth graders to MO Ranch, which is located in Huntsville, Texas.  MO ranch offers a variety of learning activities, including high element courses, reptile studies, orienteering, and much more.  The field trip is not just educational, but it's a lot of fun and it provides many of our students with their first experience away from home.

Arnoldo L. Romero

In order to provide the parents with all the information necessary and get the necessary applications distributed, my colleagues and I have a meeting 6-weeks prior to the trip.  In order to encourage attendance, we all bring a couple of field trip oriented door prizes for the students, such as water bottles, ponchos, etc.  I brought a couple of journals and pens, which I tied with some jute cord.  I embellished the sets with a tag that I put together with clip art and a font I found on my school's computer program.  I was pleased to see that my journals were some of the first door prizes to be selected by the students when their names were drawn.

Have a blessed week!


12 comments:

  1. Isn't it wonderful to share the joy of creativity with kids? Love your journals!

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  2. It's lovely to see tags being useful rather than just decorative. Well done Arnoldo they look great

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  3. These are gorgeous! Valerie

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  4. I can see why they were snatched up so quickly, I would have grabbed one too! Great job! ~Diane

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  5. nicely done! great door prizes!

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  6. What lucky students. I would have thrived going to a camp like thisone and your journals would be on my must have. I really like how you have presented them Arnoldo. Your work is always so inspirational :o)

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  7. i love this, and what a great experience for the kids. thanks for doing what you do! xo

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  8. I'm not surprised your gifts were snapped up so quickly! I used to make handmade books with the children in my class to record out of school trips so great minds think alike! Carolyn xx

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  9. I would have picked one of those journals over anything else as well, they are so stylish!
    Reptile studies.......... that sounds awesome.

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  10. LOVE the journals. I couldn't participate this week, but had to see all the creative sparks with this fun theme.

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  11. Hi Arnoldo, great use of your special tags and congratulations on very special work and what a great encouragement

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  12. These are really special!

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