I’m really looking forward to this upcoming week. I’ll begin at Silverwood Park on Monday. What I like best about my placement at Silverwood is that it gives me a lot of opportunity to work with different program types. Monday is a pretty standard program at the park. Participants had to register in advance. It looks like it’ll be a good sized group for a first day - on the smaller side. This program will be a weaving workshop.
I’ll be at Silverwood on Friday as well. It’s field trip day! Two homeschool groups will come in. We’ll do some activities indoors and go ice fishing. I’ve never been on a frozen lake and definitely never tried ice fishing. I wonder, with this being Minnesota, how many of these kids will have familiarity with ice fishing or have done it before.
While Alyssa Baguss is my primary contact at Silverwood, she set me up with each individual artist/naturalist/teacher that runs each project I’m interested in. There’s been a lot of introductory emails and plans for future contact. I’m helping with as much set up and prep as possible, but I think I’ll get to witness and assist with a lot more planning sessions with my placement at MIA.
I also got in contact with Little Earth this week and am excited to set my shadowing schedule with them. It’s been a weird week with the crazy weather, but I’m excited to go to the park this week!