Forest Day Dec 3, 2018

We were welcomed by an inch or 2 of snow covering the ground when we arrived in the forest day. In the morning we saw many different animal tracks including deer, mouse, and turkey. The snow was also great to play and imagine with.

Here are a few highlights from today:

 Discussing who would be who and what they were doing

 Making Christmas spaghetti with sauce

 Climbing and dismantling 

 Stirring the Christmas spaghetti

 Shaking the trees and trying to catch the snow as it falls down

 Dismantling and reconstructing in a different location

 Noticing deer tracks

 Finding more tracks

 The remaining pieces become a campfire

 New construction

 working together to build

 On the move

 Filling, dumping, and mixing

 Tiny Snowduck they made

 More building

 More pasta and a red sauce

 Taking care of the "campfire"

 Moving logs

 Driving

 Making plans before taking off running

 Balancing

 Discussing playdate plans

 More cooking

 Running and chasing

 Movign keeps us very warm

 More cooking

 Creating with found items

 Chopping down a big tree with an antler

 "I'm a reindeer"

 Making plans 

 Digging

 Snow and a carrot nose

 Driving a van

 Finding just the right stick and getting ready to run

 Circle campfire on the ground--ready to roast pretend marshmallows

 More digging

 Carrot nose on the snowman

 "Deer" laying in the forest

 Building

 Using sticks to make sounds

 Snowman

 Helping to fix the snowman

 Balancing

Digging deep together

We also went to the fire pit for the first time and we roasted marshmallows. Everyone did a good job listening to and following the safety rules by the fire pit. The marshmallows were yummy too!

One standard experienced today was:
Social Competence--C.EL. 3 Demonstrates understanding of rules and social expectations.