Reflections on Day One of C.A.R.E. Jr. Summer Camp

thoughts from Lily:

When you cut down a tree, you do more than just cut down a tree. In fact... Most of the woodland animals depend on trees to survive. Without trees, birds will have no where to make nests and are forced to nest in waterspouts. Woodpeckers would have no insects to eat. There will be too much carbon dioxide.

thought from Tiria:

Today was my first day of camp. We went down to the old grove, and I learned how to identify a wild carrot. It looks exactly like Queen Anne's Lace, but it has one purple flower in the centre. We also saw a lot of plastic and garbage in the river. We learned that plastic takes a long time to break down, and if it is polluting, it will go on polluting, and will probably end up killing the fish. Today we saw many dead carp which probably died of pollution.

thoughts from Mark:

GARBAGE FREE!!! In different amounts of plastic can be a very a big problem.Try to reduce the amount of plastic you buy.Try to encourage people to help clean up the river. For example, pick out garbage from the river and try to not let people put garbage in the river. Be careful to not let any of your plastic blow away.

thoughts from Joe:

At camp today I liked the walk to the wall game. I was not surprised when I saw all the dead carp today because I saw them when I went canoeing last week. .I think they may have died because people have polluted the water. I loved walking through the forest because I love trees. I noticed it would be a good place to play army with my friends.

thoughts from a camper:

C.A.R.E Stratford is a good organization. The members take their ideas and use them to make Stratford a better and healthier place to live. Not onlythat, but they teach the other residents of their town their ideas through posters, camps, meetings, events and change.

I went to their camp today. We went for a walk at T.J Dolan with a naturalist, who taught us things about flowers, bird calls, and insects. We were able to take tape recorders to record sounds, and some of us had cameras, to take pictures of interesting things such as litter, (emptycigarette boxes, shopping carts) water animals (turtles) and other wildlife.The walk taught some of us a lot, and others learned more about what theyalready knew. It was a very interesting day.

thoughts from a fuzzy peanut, age 12:

One fish, Two fishDead fish, Flu fish. You might wonder why on earth I put the title that I did. Well I'll tell you why, water pollutants (otherwise known as stray plastics ) are reaching ridiculous levels 1 to10 with plankton. I fell like this needs help. I hope that I can do something to aid with this. In my next blog I will include 350 and my idea for a new enviro-friendly power source.

thoughts from Tika, age 9:

The best thing that I have done today was go to T.J. Dolan l just loved observing the animals and seeing all of the animals habitats. You never really relise that when you hear someone talking about how the animals habitats are getting polluted you never really relise that it actually is happening. But when all of us went to T.J Dolan we all relised that it actually is happening. For instance we saw a tire behind a beaver dam. That's the best thing about C.A.R.E.

thoughts from Peanut, age 10:

The care camp is a great camp I've only been here one day and we have already gone a walk to the old grove and we took lots of pictures on the way . We took pictures of things like fish turtles. And we took pictures of dead fish because care camp is about being enviroment . At the start of the day we filled bags with corn for the swans.

thoughts from Thrill:

I didn't know that there were chemicals that could eat plastic. Sparky and some other people found this weird thing in their microscope. It was almost like bark. It looked so cool. We played this one game and we had to closeour eyes and touch the wall. After lunch we were getting water out of theground into a cup. It was cool. We learned about bacteria. It was so cool.Some other people had a rainbow in their water.

thoughts from Mr Boat, age 12:

My favourite part of today was going to T.J. Dolan and taking pictures and sound recordings. I was disgusted by amount of dead fish and how nobody bothers to clean them up. It seems like hardly anybody cares. I know it's not a human but I realize that it is still a life and it should be treated equally. Their homes are being destroyed by our carelessness and we don't care.

thoughts from Cheese Ball:

Today in Care Camp we talked about how to save the environment from plastic. Me and my pal Popo thought of the chopper thingy which will cut plastic into little pieces which the bactiria will eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

thoughts from Mr. Innocent Pedestrian:

devil worm 350 today nothing I am smart. It’s a poetic experience potential of that look at that. Computer animals turtles ducks dead fish tarp garbage and such. New guy old guy tough guy weak guy hat guy. Blue fish fire alarm class windows vista. Fuzzy ball hard ball weird ball cool ball fat ball.

thought from Popo:

My favourite part of camp today was plastic pollution conversation and how we could prevent it me and cheese ball got an idea of a chopper thingy which would cut up the plastic into tini pieces!