Forest Day Dec 10, 2018

We had a beautiful sunny, yet crisp day in the forest. Lots of pretend play individually, and in small groups. We were busy building, climbing, balancing, running, digging, and, in the AM, hunting for Big Foot.

We explored the new picnic table in our classroom and enjoyed snack on it. Thank Mr. Marquardt for building it and delivering it!

Here are a few adventures from today:

 Jumping and marking the distance

 Balancing

 Looking for Big Foot

 Discussing what to do next

 Making a butterfly house

 Digging

 Jumping and marking distance

 Trying to move the logs with his feet--"It must be frozen"

 Gymnastics moves and flipping over

 At the "Camper"

 Examining the log

 Balancing

 Balancing together--helping each other

 Hiding behind trees and finding each other

 Now making a dragonfly house

 Plans at the camper about finding Big Foot

 Gathering pine cones

 The pine cone pile--later they jumped in it

 "It feels like raindrops"     "It feels like kinetic sand"

 Chopping

 "I'm making a teeter totter"

 Breaking off branches and gathering them up

 Balancing

 Reading letters 

 Building and climbing

 Puppy dog

 Their house of gathered sticks

 Climbing and balancing

 Discussing

 Another puppy

 In their house

 Puppies following up the hill

 Discovering the picnic table

 Tasting the snow on top

 Finding ice on the rock and planning to cover it with her hat

 Gathering sticks

 Balancing and watching stick selection--later this area became the jail

 Getting a broom stick for the witch (he turned Mrs. Bender into a witch)

 Hunting

 Watching over the ice before chopping it all gone

 Trying to get the stick to stand in a hole in the log

 Making a campfire

 Chopping the snow off a log

 Group looking for bad guys to put in their jail

 Digging and climbing

 More climbing

 Old man with cane and digging

 Climbing and swinging

 Digging and piling the dirt

 Balancing

 "I found a heavy rock"

 More digging

 Riding on the "bus"

 Making plans at the jail--one tripped but caught himself

 A stakeout

 More digging and climbing

 Relaxing and noticing the treetops

 Writing her name in the snow

 Digging and climbing

 Pine cones became army men

 One was counting for a game of hide & seek and one was climbing and giving clues where to find those hiding

 Digging by a different tree

 Climbing

 Climbing and learning how to take turns

 Two in a tree

 Small rock

 Tasting / eating the bus

 More tasting/ eating the bus

 More play with army guy pine cones

 Moving the army men

 Group playing together with pine cones

 Chopping the log

Playing together

One standard addressed today was:
Diversity in Learning--C. EL. 3 Uses various styles of learning including verbal/linguistic, bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.