The forest was a magical winter wonderland when we arrived. Snow came up to the tops of most boots and there were so many tracks along the path as we headed down. We also found a fallen tree limb near the path and there were a variety of speculations of what happened--"a strange guy cut it down", "a buffalo pushed it over", "the Big Bad Wold blew it down", "a beaver get it down", and "wind blew on it".
After reading The Gruffalo's Child, we joined Miss Nogee's class and shared our classroom and hers. Here are some of the highlights:
Discovering they could make it "snow" by shaking the trees
Climbing
Shaking snow off
More shaking snow down
Digging in the snow
Excited to explore in Miss Nogee's room
Helping clear the fire pit area
Digging out the fire pit area
"Peeling" a tree
Adding water to last week's ashes to make a paint
Crumpling paper and tearing cardboard to start the fire
Climbing
More climbing
Climbing
Moving a log
Pushing & rolling
Over the top
Friend helping get it over a longer log
Pushing it up with feet
Still rolling
After rolling it about 50 feet he used it to climb up on the stump
Making "cake"
Mixing, measuring, and conversing
Looking with binoculars
Checking to see if the mouse they found last week came back
More climbing
Digging "to make the forest look like the forest" (find the ground)
"I found a crocodile head"
Working the whole body--strength and balance
Drawing in the snow
Cleared off some logs
A couple birds stayed very close watching us all day
Digging
Choosing tools
An Early Learner and a Kindergartner having a conversation
Ready to shovel
Piling snow on the stump
Proud to be up on top
2 Early Learners and 2 Kindergartners making a plan to build a house and exploring bones
A "lion" sneaking up on her prey
Exploring tools
Building and sawing
Working a parts of the house that "will take like 10 forest days to finish"
A "lion" mom taking care of her 2 babies
Climbing a tree while others "find food"
More climbing
Heading to the fort
Playing with the fort
Talking together and standing up sticks in the snow
Looking for a place to shovel
Moving snow
Checking out the big hole again this week
Relaxing and talking
Digging
At snack time we tried roasting string cheese over the campfire--SO GOOD!!!
One standard addressed today was:
Listening and Understanding
A.EL. 2 Listens and responds to communications with others.
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