Wilderness School

 

These are my friends Sam and Jonas. 

 

 

This is the campfire that I started.  I used birchbark and tiny sticks to get it to catch.

 This is the fort that the kids made before I joined the group.  They build it themselves.

 This is the old fort that was used before the other fort.  It was used by the group as a shelter and to make campfires in. 

This is a red salamander that the girls found.  They wanted me to take a picture of it.  I found one of these too, I found it in the woods next to a big pile of logs.  I am not sure if they are common or not.  We only found two even though we looked for a long time. 

 This is when we made bows for archery.  We made a special thing to shoot.  It was a deer made out of pine branches and we used rope to hold it together.  Me and a few other kids were able to hit the target.  I am good at archery since I have taken a class before.  This is one of the older kids named Ari shooting his bow and arrow.  He was able to hit the target too.

These are pictures from my wilderness class.  It was a class that I learned about how to survive if I was alone in the wilderness.  I learned a lot and if I every get stuck in the wilderness I think I would know what to do.  Some of the things I learned were:  how to make a fire, a bow and arrow, and a fishing rod.  I learned what you can eat in the wilderness like dandelions, fish, and other edible plants like root beer.  I can make my own shelter and I can make animal calls.  There is something called Indian Walk that is a way to walk so silently you can sneak up on something so quietly that it doesn't hear you.  I am able to do this well.  I know because I snuck up on Maisie so quietly that I almost made her wet her pants!