It was an amazing fall day in the forest today! We were so lucky to have special visitors to our forest place today. Eliza Minnucci and Meg Teachout, the forest teachers at the Ottaquechee School, came to visit our forest and teach us about math learning in the woods!
We began our day in our classrooms creating our forest plans and get ready for the day! When we were ready, we hiked the hill to our spot and had morning meeting. Ms. Black Bear talked to us about using our Deer Ears to listen to the forest during Sit Spots today. We love our sit spots! Today we heard sticks banging, leaves crunching, and birds singing.
During forest choice time, the students enjoyed climbing trees, building forts, walking the tight rope, and swinging on the rope swing. It was chilly up in the forest today. Mr. Connor came up to make tea for us in our Kelly Kettles. We had apple tea today. Yum!
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| Bat lifted a heavy stick all by himself to put on the fort. |
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| Robin and Red Tailed Hawk found a new fort near the fire circle. |
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| Playing Camouflage in the Forest. |
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| We found a female Wood Frog out in the forest today! Too cool! |
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| Mink made a triangle with sticks. |
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| Raccoon used acorns to solve word problems on her triangle work space. |
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| Mrs. Minnucci taught us how to play What's My Rule with different kinds of leaves we found in the forest. |
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| A sugar maple leaf has a U shape and a red maple leaf has a V shape. |
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| Mrs. Panasci came to teach us in the woods today! We ran around and then had to form power groups with our friends. |
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| We played a fun game. One of us was the squirrel and the other two pretended to be a tree. We followed directions like walk around the tree, go under the tree, step over the tree, and, our favorite, go through the tree! |
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| We listened to the story of how jimmy the skunk got his white stripe at lunch! We were glad that there was not a real skunk around camp! Ewwww! |
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| Our forest friends spent time building a leaf fort today using the rakes that we had at our site. |
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| We found a new spot to explore! We were sad that we did not find it until the very end of forest choice time. We can't wait for next Friday! |
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| We love the forest and our friends!!! |
We had an amazing day in the forest!
At the end of the day, we did some writing together. Here is some of our writing:
FOREST FRIDAY IS......
"fun. We get free time."
"really, really, really, really fun. The most fun is climbing trees."
"running around. We work hard. It is fun."
"fun because we get to play and we get to swing on the rope swing."
"fun for climbing trees, and putting sticks in the tree. Forest Friday is fun."
"for going in the woods and playing!"
"about running and it is fun."
"building our leaf fort."
"fun because I climbed a tree."
"building forts."
"really fun and really exciting. Forest Friday is very nice!"
The kids had a wonderful day working together, playing together and writing together! See you next time!
Ms. Eckert and Mrs. Koski
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