Michigan Camp Meeting 2016: The Harvest is Great

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

Angela Boothby Frauenfelder

1. The Outdoors-An Integral Part of Abundant Life

2. Teaching Science & Math in the Outdoors

3. Teaching Language Arts in the Outdoors

4. Take Your Family Outdoors

5. Connecting with the Creator in His Creation

This is my special guest speaker, Melissa Harley.

She's actually the reason why I have a master's in outdoor education, because we were talking.

She teaches at Holland Seventh-day Adventist School.

So she was there when I came and we instantly became really good friends and She talked about how she had a master's in outdoor education.

That sounds awesome And she told me about the adventure She went on Like on a boat for how long?

We did a 4 day adventure based counseling trip in Tennessee where 1 day was whitewater rafting, another was backpacking, rock climbing, and caving.

And I never spent the night in a cave before.

They brought a five-gallon pail into the cave and had to take the five-gallon pail out of the cave.

So I said wow that sounds like so much fun and then I did the masters and I didn't get to do any of those things because the program has slightly changed with new leadership and they did it shorter so you now only there for 2 to 4 weeks and she was there for 9 or 10 weeks, like the whole entire summer.

So the program had slightly changed, but when she told me about all the adventures, that is why I want that master's.

And then I went down there and said, no, this master's is actually biblical, it's sound, it's what we all need to have education in.

So she's been teaching for 3 years in Tennessee.

She taught 1 year overseas as a student missionary in Pohnpei.

And you will fall in love with her and probably say she should just finish the seminar.

So please give a warm welcome to Melissa Harlan.

As Miss Boothby, as I call her, said, I teach children.

So standing up in front of a group of adults is way out of my comfort zone.

So if it's going to help me, and if you guys don't mind, I'm kind of going to talk to you and I've kind of planned activities as if you were my class, just to give you ideas of stuff that I do in my classroom.

So Miss, I don't know if I should call you Miss Boothby, that's what I'm used to calling her from school, but Angie has asked me to present some language arts ideas for nature activities.

I'm sure that you've gotten to know each other over the past 2 days, but we're gonna play a little game to get to know each other, and it's an icebreaker, and it's called Have You Ever?

And what you're gonna do is you're gonna get up out of your seat, and you're gonna walk around and ask people the question, have you ever, and there's different boxes, it's kind of like bingo, have you ever gone hiking?

I'm sure lots of people in this room, if you're here, you like nature, you've probably gone hiking.

So you can have a person, if they said yes, to have you gone hiking, have them sign their name in that box.

You can only use the same person twice, though.

So once you have the same person for 2 boxes, you need to move on and find somebody else.

Who has done, have you ever climbed a tree or built a tree fort?

Now some of these on here are really challenging, so there might only be 1 person in this room who has actually done that.

I've used it at Lyft, which is our seventh and eighth grade time up at Camp Asobel.

In the conference, we invite the teenage group to go up there, and that age group is kind of, it's hard to get them to interact sometimes, So having an icebreaker like this is helpful.

The first person to get all of the boxes filled is the winner.

So if you guys don't mind, just take 1 and pass it down and you can take a writing utensil.

Normally, I would have a little prize for the students, but I didn't bring prizes for you.

I had 1 candy bar at home that I thought of bringing, and then I didn't.

And then if they haven't, ask them another 1.

Robert said Trust me, trust me, I know where we're going.

I had a very interesting comment said to me, it was like, wow, I had to go back into my childhood to remember if I had done any of these things.

And she said, that's kind of sad because I should have been still doing these things.

So raise your hand if you learned something new about somebody today.

That's the point of this activity, to kind of Think about what you've done in nature and some things that you might want to do or have your kids experience that you didn't get to experience.

I have been privileged to go on a lot of adventures in nature.

Some of them were through my master's in outdoor education.

Some of them were with my lovely friend Angie and some were just on my own.

And everywhere I go, I like to keep a journal of my adventures.

So nature journaling is 1 of my favorite things to do.

You can get these at different stores or online.

This kind of is an abbreviated journal where it just has the place, the weather, the people you went with, what you enjoyed the most.

So this is a very, If you don't like to write much, this is a really easy 1 that just keeps track of places that you've been, national parks or campsites, things like that.

Here's 1 that I had students design at, I think it was Lyft or outdoor education, 1 of the 2, where you just take a piece of cardstock and fold it in half, and inside you can just put some sheets of regular paper.

We actually did the game that we just did for the first day, and then there was some scripture verses from the Bible about nature, and then I had the kids do a little journaling about that.

There's some blank paper for when we go on nature walks to just do some sketches.

There is, in the middle, a piece of watercolor paper for them to do some painting.

We usually like to go down by the stream and actually take water from the creek and find something from nature to draw and paint.

Hopefully we'll have time to do a little bit of that today.

I'm not sure, we'll have to keep an eye on the time.

But This is something that students or your children or you can create on your own.

I made this 1, and I haven't written in it much.

Yeah, this is a collage in the front and the back.

I like to collect magazines, and people give me calendars and things like that for my classroom.

Another kind of journaling that I like to do is photo journaling.

When I go places, I take pictures of the places I've been and you can do these digitally or you can print the pictures and just scrapbook them.

This is some of the pictures that I've taken of nature.

Series

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

3. Teaching Language Arts in the Outdoors

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

2. Teaching Science & Math in the Outdoors

1h 4m

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

4. Take Your Family Outdoors

1h 5m

Nature and the Christian Life

37m

Intensive: Outdoor Education

Outdoor Education - Part 6

55m

True Education

Communion with God in Nature

1h 1m

Children's Ministries

What’s In Your Teacher’s Toolbox

1h 16m

The NATURE of Happiness

57m

Bible As the Center of Academic Curricula

2. The Importance of Reading the Bible and Teaching Your Children to Read the Bible

58m

Experiencing the Word of God: How to Turn A Bible into Your Bible

Morning Manna

47m

True Education

True Education- Part 5

57m

God's First Book, Our First Classroom

1. The Outdoors-An Integral Part of Abundant Life

1h 16m

Sound Doctrine