Here in Oak Lake Science Camp we go to bed at 11:00, if you are unlucky to be caught by the camera. For dinner on the first day we had sloppy Joes. End day 1. http://biomicro.sdstate.edu/Oaklake/Oak%20Lake%20Summer%20Science%20Camp.htm

Start of day 2. In the morning we woke to the delightful breakfast of Bread, Fruit, and Cereal. Of course we eat enough to survive, but it is not the most appealing breakfast.

Then we walked down to the classroom for our first formal lesson. Prairie plants. We spent about 3 hours walking around. So our feet were tired afterwards.

After that we had a lunch of sandwiches and fruit and snack food.

Afterwards we did a formal class of water sampling. We test tested the Green water to see how far we could see it.

The girls got in but the boys were afraid. The water was fine I don’t see why the boys didn’t get in.

We then had the delightful dinner of Casserole hot meal. We then goofed around until 11. End of day 2.

Start of day 3. Today we woke to the awesome breakfast of cereal and yogurt. At 9:00 we went down to the classroom.

We waited a half an hour. Finally we got started on prairie birds. We set up the nets, and went inside.

We then went down to the nets and we had caught 2 lest fly catchers and one common yellow throat warbler.

I held one lest fly catcher. After we did that we had herd that there was 2 more birds in the nets. We then had lunch after we banded the birds.

We had sandwiches. I had a turkey, mayo, and provolone cheese sandwiches.

We then went to go to the lake and do the aquatic insect adaptations. Afterwards we swam for a long time. I found 11 clams!! When we got back we walked to take a shower. Afterwards we had dinner.

It was fried chicken and potatoes wedges. We then went to the classroom to work on our projects. End of day 3.

Start of day 4. We woke to the excellent breakfast of yogurt. At 9 we walked down to the classroom. We had the lesson of catching bugs. I caught a beetle, a large dragonfly, and a damsel fly. We then walked back to the classroom. We pinned some of our insects.

We then went to have lunch. I had another sandwich!

We used goldenrod that made an excellent yellow. We also used choke cherries. That made a watery reddish, pinkish, maroon color. We put the rubber bands on our cloth and put them in the colors.

Now that we had done that we headed back to the classroom. We now have trapping. We set a turtle trap. Also some mouse traps. We then had the dinner of Pizza or everyone else did, I didn’t because there wasn’t any that I liked. So I had 2 granola bars. We then went down to the classroom to work on our projects. End of day 4.

Start of day 5. We started the day at 7:15 doing yoga with Mary. Mary is a girl here at the field station. We then had the appetizing breakfast of yogurt.

We then walked down to the classroom to learn about trees. We took tree samples. After we did that we had the lunch of sandwiches. We then did the lesson of trapping. The traps that I set had a small ground squirrel. We then loaded the van and drove down to the turtle that we set. We didn’t catch anything. We then drove down to the classroom and dissected owl pellets. I found a rodent scull. We then had dinner and went to bed.