Latest Updates for Trails Education Days
The goal of Trails Education Days is to instill youngsters with an appreciation and sense of stewardship of natural open space. The program provides lessons on open space for over 1000 Conejo Valley Unified School District 4th grade students every spring.
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The 2024 Trails Education Days writing contest winners; the 2025 event will be April 26 – May 1 - The 2024 Trails Education Days provided lessons on open space for 1,053 Conejo 4th grade students from all 17 CVUSD elementary schools. Sincere Thanks The Conejo Open Space Foundation extends a hearty THANK YOU to these Trails Education Days sponsors, supporters, staff & volunteers: Emmett R Quady Foundation Conejo Group Sierra Club Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency Conejo Recreation and… (read more...)
The 2023 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
Trails Education Days Makes a Comeback for 2022 - Trails Education Days returned to Wildwood Park April 25 to 28 after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of the program is to instill youngsters with an appreciation and sense of stewardship of natural open space. It provides lessons on open space for Conejo Valley Unified School District 4th grade students every spring. The Trails Education… (read more...)
COSF produces a new video for Trails Education Days - COSF has produced an new high-definition video that Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) fourth grade students watch to get valuable preparation and background information for Trails Education Days. The video that has been in use since 2008 has been retired. The new video takes advantage of state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to engage and entertain the students. Professor David… (read more...)
COSF produces a video of the Trails Education Days workshop on Our Animal Neighbors - To help the Conejo Valley Unified School District Grade 4 students get a full appreciation for open space and why it is so important, we are expanding and updating the videos we have made to aid their learning. The latest video, "Trails Education Days Native Animals Workshop," was released in early May 2021. A year earlier we released the video… (read more...)
Grade Four kids send thanks for the ‘Virtual Nature Hike’ that replaced Trails Education Days this year - We hope you'll love these thank-you notes as much as we do! CVUSD grade 4 kids normally spend a half-day in Wildwood Park learning about the open space, but this year it was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, we created a 'Virtual Nature Hike', a video that covers some of what they would have learned. Students from Mrs.… (read more...)
Virtual Trails Education Days Nature Hike - As naturalist "Tracker Rob" Remedi makes his way down the Wildwood Canyon Trail, he encounters plants, animals and geological features that are part of the fourth grade science curriculum. His folksy discussion of these is entertaining as well as educational. This video was produced by the Conejo Open Space Foundation (COSF) to offer the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD)… (read more...)
The 2020 Trails Education Days are canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic - Conejo Valley Unified School District schools are closed until at least May 4th. Therefore Trails Education Days is canceled for this year. (read more...)
The 2019 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
The 2018 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)The 2017 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
The 2016 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)The 2015 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
The 2014 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
The 2013 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)
The 2012 Trails Education Days writing contest winners - The students who participate in Trails Education Days are invited to enter a letter-writing contest to describe some of the things they learned during their Trails Education Days experience. Two winners from each school and five Grand Prize winners district-wide are chosen to receive cash awards as well as recognition by the Thousand Oaks City Council and the CRPD Board… (read more...)