Message from your Captain

Ahoy Schooner campers and parents,

Welcome to Week 2 of Schooner's summer activity guide newsletter. We hope you enjoyed last week's content and are looking forward to this week's activities as much as we are!

Scroll through this email to see an overview of this week's activities. Also be sure to check out our website, linked here, for more in-depth content.

Creature of the Week

Each week, we will feature a local New Haven creature to discuss and learn more about together. This week, our Gather Corps member, Sadie, created a segment on oysters.

Check out the Creature of the week tab on our webpage to learn about oysters' habitat, diet, and behaviors, and MORE.

DID YOU KNOW? A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day! Imagine what a whole reef of oysters can filter in a day!

Community Science Project: Are you curious to learn more about the plant and animal species that live in New Haven. Get involved with iNaturalist and our own New-Haven project, Naturally Curious New Haven.

With over 3900 nature observations already made by community members to Naturally Curious New Haven, you can explore iNaturalist and possibly identify some of the same plants and animals in your own neighborhood. If you decide to contribute your own observations, you're adding to a collection of data used by scientists all around the world. How cool is that!

Follow and contribute to Naturally Curious New Haven and see what other people have been finding in our area.

Activity Draw a picture of the LIS Creature of the Week and upload it to our Padlet, you may even see your drawing featured in the Summer Guide! 

More Activities

Do you want more Schooner-created, nature-related content? Pasted below are direct links to MORE of this week's activities!

Printable Activities

??Nature Mystery ??

Whose track is that?
Hint: This week we love shells, but what left this track is no mollusk.

Submit your guesses to the community padlet , Label your guess-"Nature Mystery"

Long Wharf Nature Preserve Observations

More Gather Corps Video Content

Visit our Green spaces:

While Schooner is unable to take place in person this year, we wanted to include a list of Gather New Havens' (Schooner's Mothership) green spaces that, you and your family could visit for a socially-distanced nature outing.


Click here for a list of the available green spaces. 

Announcements / Sign-ups
 

• Sign up for Camp Pen Pals to connect with other campers in your age bracket this summer.

• Sign up your teen to be part of Gather Corps, raising awareness of environmental stewardship and connecting your child to nature by creating educational video content for the summer guide.

• Sign up for the Weekly Campfire Share Circle on Friday, July 17th.

• We welcome any suggestions for what you would like to learn about or the types of activities you would like to see, because this Summer Guide is for You!

• Get MORE involved with Schooner this summer by sharing your own nature observations and completed activities on our community Padlet page.

• Spanish translations of the activities will be made available on the website a day or two after the emailed newsletter goes out on Monday.

• If you can donate to our efforts this summer to support this summer guide and getting food and activities to those in need in New Haven this summer please click the button below

Additional Links

newsletter archive / glossary / padlet/ website