Roper Lake Kid Projects

As I mentioned before Roper Lake is a state park here in Arizona that is a great place for people to spend time. Due to lack of money it is scheduled to be shut down. Besides volunteering to help clean it up our class did a three week long project to educate third graders about Roper Lake and collect cans to raise money for Roper Lake in an effort to keep it open. For the project we were in groups of about 5. Each group got a topic that they were going to be teaching the kids about such as boating, camping, swimming, fishing, games, picnics and we even taught them about the history of Roper Lake. First we went into their classrooms to talk to them about the project and the can collecting. We told them that our class was going to see who could collect the most cans. Every student was supposed to bring is as many cans as they could and each class got a pizza party even if they didnt collect the most. Then we went to Wal*Mart and bought everything we needed for the projects. The day of the actual project was so fun. Every group put a lot into their presentations. My group which was games, swimming, and picnics played a relay race with the kids, taught them the rules of swimming and picnics. There were about 4 classes 100 kids in all and each one wrote letters to the senator and mayor telling them what they loved about roper lake. The camping group made smores with the kids and showed them the cabins. The project was very succesful and the kids had so much fun. I heard many kids say they were going to ask there parents to bring them to Roper Lake which was a very good sign. All together we raised about $137 with the cans that we donated to an organization called Friends of Roper Lake that was trying to help keep roper lake open. This project was a very fun and important part of the class!