Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Dates: June 22–June 25

Time: 1:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Cost: $135

Ages: 8 years and up

Overview

Shipwrecked is an immersive, literature-based adventure experience designed to engage children in hands-on exploration, teamwork, and practical survival skills. Throughout the week, participants will journey through the book Kidnapped in Key West, integrating storytelling with interactive activities that reinforce themes of resilience, navigation, problem-solving, and discovery.

Core Components

• Daily reading from Kidnapped in Key West with guided discussion and reflection.

• Creation of handmade parchment journals to log discoveries, experiments, skills learned, and

reflections.

• Navigation activities including creating a sundial and following treasure maps using compasses.

• Learning and practicing a new knot each day.

• Hands-on science experiments exploring salinity and water filtration.

• Problem-solving challenges connected to survival scenarios.

Learning Goals

• Strengthen listening comprehension and literary analysis skills.

• Develop practical navigation and outdoor skills.

• Engage in scientific inquiry through experimentation.

• Practice teamwork and collaborative problem-solving.

• Build confidence through hands-on mastery of new skills.

Environment & Structure

This experience combines structured instruction, guided exploration, and creative journaling within a safe and supportive church setting. Activities are age-appropriate and designed to foster curiosity, resilience, and independence.

• For Further questions contact deeprootsnatureschool@gmail.com