5th Grade Camp Classen Experience

 CAMP CLASSEN DATES:   2025 - 2026 School Year October 20-October 24, 2025 

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Thank you, Jennifer Reeves Camp Classen Director Bryant Elementary School School: 405-735-4130    

What is Camp Classen?  

The Outdoor School at YMCA CAMP CLASSEN is the most unique program of its kind. It is both easily accessible from main highways and a reasonable distance for many schools in Oklahoma and Texas and covers 2,400 extraordinary acres in the Arbuckle Mountains. The camp’s facilities are designed to accommodate multiple students and needs at the same time. Our ecological diversity is a treasure in itself. Between its lakes, mountain tops, streams, fields, and waterfalls - the Eastern forest biome interlaces with that of the Western plains. This diversity and natural beauty make it ideally suited for hands-on, place-based learning. Its facilities are not only tuned to complement and support academic programs, but to promote and encourage leadership, teamwork, value training, trust, self-worth and understanding for students.

CAMP CLASSEN's Outdoor School offers outdoor education programs for schools from Oklahoma and Texas. Teachers can take their classes on guided interpretive hikes focusing on geology, ecology, biomes, natural cycles, and fossils. Our place-based education programs include a ready-for-use curriculum for teachers-including geology, ecology, adaptation, water, predator prey studies, fresh water labs, fossil labs, orienteering and so much more!

Our Outdoor School empowers teachers to take their classroom outside, allowing them to connect with their students and create memories to last a lifetime. Activities are hands-on and place-based, so students are not only learning key concepts, but relating it to very specific events of the real world.

We believe that the teacher is an essential building block in the acquisition of knowledge. It’s their presence within the Outdoor School’s instruction that connects school concepts to life learning to retain knowledge. For this, we provide great facilities with a comprehensive range of curriculum and program support for you and a pricing scale that cannot be matched! 

Whether you call it environmental education, experiential education, outdoor education, hands on learning, place-based studies or just camp - our goals are the same:

1. To help you promote the greatest retention of knowledge possible 
2. For students to enjoy learning and become lifelong learners 
3. To give students concrete examples that apply to classroom learning 
4. To promote sustainable responsible stewardship of the environment / to make environmental decisions based on the big picture good of our civilization. 
5. To help students value themselves, others, and their environment 

When will Camp Classen be? 2025 - 2026 School Year

October 20-October 24, 2025 

How much is Camp Classen? Tuition for Camp Classen per student $285.00 for the 2025-2026 school year. This price will cover your lodging, meals, activities, and transportation to and from camp for the FULL week. The kids will be fed a total of 12 meals while at camp. We will also provide each student with snacks each day between meals. I know that this sounds like a large price to pay. However, this price is very comparable to the other schools in our district. We will have fundraising opportunities to help offset the cost. Start saving now! If you put back a little at a time, this can be very manageable. Payments can begin immediately. Every dollar paid will be used for Camp Classen.

Who will be attending Camp Classen? Bryant Elementary would like to take ALL 5th graders if possible. This will be a great opportunity for your child to relax, yet still learn, and to be with all of their friends. As our students enter 6th grade, we want them to grow and mature together before leaving Bryant and starting a new life experience in junior high. 

Will parent chaperones be needed at camp? Absolutely!! Please look for more information on the ParentSquare app!

Looking forward to Camp Classen with you student! 

Jennifer Reeves, Camp Classen Director