Hello Open Fields friends!
We started this blog so we could communicate with you about the school. We’ll update it to tell you about upcoming events, and we’ll be using it to talk with former students and teachers about their experiences at Open Fields School.
With our 35th Reunion just around the corner (June 2 – 3, 2007), we want to hear from you! If you were a former student or teacher (or a parent of a former student), write a comment to let us know where you are and what you’re up to these days.
Stay tuned for more about the reunion…
I have been a teacher here for eighteen years now, but I have to say it is still new every day. I love being able to get to know the students personally and to have the resources that we do. One of my favorite memories was of taking a couple of students to catch crayfish. I carefully explained as I drove the students to the crayfish creek how you have to get behind the crayfish because of the way they use their tails to swim backwards. The students appeared not to pay attention to these words of wisdom. After being let loose in the creek with kitchen strainers, the kids soon were thrashing around trying to catch the wily crustaceans. When they finally got one, one of the kids said in a surprized and suddenly enlightened tone of voice,”You have to get the strainer behind them because they swim backwards.” Go figure.
So, this is a quiz for my former students:
How do you look for and find the weak spot in the ice on the Beaver Pond?
Where did you leave that organic science experiment?
The recipe for gack?
Fill in the blanks: F_ _ M A N !!!!!! dada-dada-_ _ _ _-dada…
Duck, duck, _ _ _ _ _.
Where’s the sledding hill?
Do you really need to know anything else?
Hope to see you at the reunion,
Neal
There is now a facebook group for Open Fields Alums!!! This is yet another way for us to find eachother, and engage in dialogue about our experiences, or to network. So far, there are 5 people in the group. covering a span of a little over a decade.