Here are some highlights of what we did today:
Found a bone
Making a store
Exploring together what happens when you crush pine cones with a rock
Working together to try to take down a decaying tree
Building a bridge
Finding and carrying more supplies for the bridge
Talking about how we each want to use the bridge
Jumping over boards and logs on the bridge
Jumping over boards and logs on the bridge
Cutting steaks and cleaning the grill
Digging out the base of the decaying tree
Digging for gold
More digging
Breaking a bone and looking inside
Trying to break a stick by jumping on it
Tyring to break a stick using rocks
Gathering leaves to be the peanut butter in the sandwich
Finding the other part of the broken bone
Finding a chunk of the root--but no gold yet
Feeding peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Popsicles to everyone
Holding a woolly bear caterpillar
Finding another caterpillar--species unknown
Woolly Bear caterpillar--he got passed around and did get a little stepped on but was seen crawling a few minutes later
Watching unknown caterpillar crawl from leaf to stem of the plant
More unknown caterpillar
Cleaning the big chunk of wood with a small stick
Team work to move a board
"I found a bone"
Determination to carry and place the board on the rock
Balancing on the bridge
Taking care of an egg
Decorating the building with pine cones and needles
Making a snadwich
Using one stick to catch and pick up another stick
Two big sticks to put around the nest so the dinosaurs stay away
Unknown caterpillar still on stem where we left it in the morning
Examining the unknown caterpillar
Teamwork to move a large stick
Found another bone and a stick that looked like an antler
Working to balance aq rock on the head
Balancing on a fallen log
Moe balancing on a fallen log
In the fort
Moving pine needles to draw in the sand
Teeter totter balancing
Found a bone and looking inside
Walking up an incline
Teeter totter
More fun with the bone and stick antlers
Sliding on the rock
Sliding on the rock
Turn taking to slide on the rock
Practicing turn taking and waiting to slide on the rock
Horsey trapped and here comes a rescuer
Taking care of "horsey eggs"
Digging in the sand
Finding a wiggly white worm
Watching the wiggly white worm
Experimenting with design and using a board for a slide on the rock
More sliding on the board
Taking turns sliding on the board
Using sticks as invitations to ask others to join in the play
Rolling logs down the big hill after bathroom break
Rolling logs down the big hill after bathroom break
Here comes the log rolling down the hill
A little steering and a push to keep the log rolling down the hill
Almost to our classroom with the logs they rolled down the big hill
Making a campfire
Others join the campfire
Balancing on logs while waiting for kindergartners to come up the hill before getting on the bus
Next week--I am wondering if the unknown caterpillar may have made a cocoon/chrysalis--can't wait to check it out.
One Standard addressed today was:
Curiosity, Engagement, and Persistence
A.EL. 2 Engages in meaningful learning through attempting, repeating, experimenting, refining, and elaborating on experiences and activities.
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