Audubon Society Summer Camps offer something for everyone!

Kids, teens, families, adults and teachers. Spend part of your summer having fun and exploring the natural world.

Beginning in April, select Audubon Centers will be taking applications for scholarships for a week of summer camp. Choose from a broad selection of day camps near you.

To learn more, go to Audubon Camps.

Audubon in the Schools instructors needed!

by Kris Kirkeby
Audubon in the Schools Coordinator
349-2439 evenings
k2kirk (at) comcast.net.

I'd like to update you on the progress of Audubon in the Schools. We started in the spring of 2005, and to date we've reached about 6500 students. We primarily teach grades 2-5 in the Eugene 4-J and most surrounding regional schools. We visit an average of 22 schools per year. We keep the program’s scheduling person Bonnie Lindberg pretty busy. And the program seems to grow, so it's exciting for us to begin another new school year!

We have nine instructors visiting schools and we very much appreciate their efforts! Some times we get stretched pretty thin and have to turn down requests. So we are always looking more instructors. The training is free (see below). Or if you know of a school that may be interested in inviting us, let us know. We appreciate all help that allows us to continue to provide this educational contribution to area classrooms.

Free instructor training available for new volunteers

Free training is available and involves two activity-packed Saturdays before you are ready to go into the classrooms. You don't need to be an artist to learn the drawing techniques well enough to teach the children. And you don't need to be a biologist or expert birder to learn the science well enough to teach the children. We have folks with a variety of backgrounds in our present group, and everyone is doing really well and enjoying the classroom visits!

You'll learn a well-tested curriculum, primarily using four easy-to-teach lessons. Each lesson combines bird biology and art methods in a one-hour session and includes an ecosystem component, aligning the information with the state standards. You'll be using a nice teaching collection of taxidermy birds, nests, feathers, bones, etc. You'll learn simple techniques to teach kids to draw accurately in pencil and render colors in colored pencil.

If you are interested or have questions, please contact me at 349-2439 (346-2511 in the mornings) or k2kirk (at) comcast.net.

Audubon in the Schools welcomes Bonnie Lindberg

Audubon in the Schools is very happy to announce and welcome a scheduling assistant to help us coordinate our school visits! Bonnie Lindberg grew up in Wisconsin and went to college in Texas. A Eugene resident since 1971, Bonnie worked for Lane County and then the City of Eugene for about 25 years, retiring on April Fool's Day, 2005! Her interests include reading, knitting, traveling, a bit of window box gardening, yoga and learning more about the world.

Audubon in the Schools now accepting reservations

The Program now has a new e-mail address. If you know of a school or teacher that would like us to visit their classroom please have them contact Bonnie Lindberg at aitslc (at) gmail.com.