Lake Iowa Again

We headed out to Lake Iowa for our annual class trip. Lake Iowa is in the middle of no where but is a beautiful park and lake. You can't ski but fishing is allowed. We had a blast! I did have a lot of fun last year too! Each grades activities are different so by the time they go through 3 years at our middle school they've all types of experiences!
This year we got to kayack, insect identification (not my fav), lake and river fish, water clarity adn testing and our service project was clearing an area of brush so that the sun light could get to the forest floor. That was a little scary. I wouldn't particularly give a saw to any of my kids for fear of hacking off someone's body parts. They did good!

We did get to watch the naturalist and "fishing dude" let out 4000 catfish that they had been growing. They were born in Jan/Feb. They were brought out to the lake in May and put in 7 big cages. They fed them every day and now were big enough to let out.
We ended the day with swimming which was a great team building activity. Teachers didn't swim we were too tired and sat on the beach!