Camporee for the Franklin County Girl Scout Service Unit

Camporee for the Franklin County Girl Scout Service Unit

Jamison Mill Park

7/20/2019

By Connie Hylton

  I was there much of Saturday and briefly on Friday (delivering fishing gear).  The Camporee began Friday Morning and camp broke Sunday before lunch.  About 40 campers and a number of adults in attendance.

I worked with the Brownies and with the Junior Scouts with some activities.  I did some snippets with Listening to Bird Calls and listening for Birds, provided some handouts on Backyard Birds of Virginia, made some casts of animal tracks and talked about other traces of animal presence, got in the stream to find some macroinvertebrates and escape the heat for a brief time.  The favorite of the girls seemed to be casting animal tracks and taking the home.  There were also some hikes and some fishing activities and kayaking, as well as a program on insects with the Daisy's but I was not as actively involved in those as some of those occurred Friday and while I was working with different age groups on Saturday.

Let the activities begin!

Let's find the macroinvertebrates!

Connie tells them how it's done

Casting animal tracks