October 7, 2016

Grey fox was hitting sticks on my tree in my sit spot.

What a perfect fall day in the forest! It was a bit chilly to start but it warmed write up. Mrs. Swallow talked to us at morning meeting about using our Owl Eyes during our sit spot time to see what had changed in our sit spot since the last time we had been there. We noticed that our trees made different sounds when we hit them with sticks. We also noticed rocks in our sit spots that we did not see last week. Most of us noticed the leaves!

Woodpecker  was making a circle around my sitspot. She tried writing her name with a stick in the dirt.

Raccoon found a slug in her sit spot. She pulled a piece of bark off and found a whole bunch of ants.

During Forest Choice time, many of us continued to build our fort. We have been working so hard the past four weeks. We finally finished today and then used it to play. Others drew pictures of the forest, climbed trees, or played in the meadow.

Red Tailed Hawk, Milksnake, and Grey Squirrel are helping to build the fort.  They have a weapon box in their fort.

We made tea in the Kelly Kettles. Raccoon liked it but Red Tailed Hawk did not.  Bald Eagle said it tasted okay!!!

Cotton Tail Bunny and Grey Fox found a snake hole.

We were excited to have berry tea today. It helped warm us up.

We were drinking tea!

We are doing arm hook and pull with Mrs. Panasci.

We love when Miss P and Mrs. Panasci come into the woods with us! We get to move, stretch, play games, sing songs, and dance.

Chocolate song

Woodpecker and Raccoon were being an artist and clay. Raccoon turned Woodpecker into an upside down bird with her feathers going up and down!

We were eating lunch in the forest today. It was fun.

We were hiking down the hill with our walking sticks. We are going to decorate them next week. 

We had another successful day in the forest. We were having so much fun that Ms. Eckert and Mrs. Koski forgot to take pictures of our forest rotations. Ms. Eckert took the students on a nature walk along our winter path and we looked for different types of leaves to use in our leaf rubbings later that day. During her rotation Mrs. Koski talked to the kids about predators and prey and the importance of camouflage for animals. Then, they played a fun game where they needed to use the meadow habitat as camouflage while Mrs. Koski tried to find them. The kids loved the game!



At the end of the day we each searched the forest for the perfect walking stick to take back to school. Miss Karner is going to help us decorate them during Art! We can't wait!

We ended the day writing and doing leaf rubbings! We were amazed at how many kids had never done a simple leaf rubbing. We heard many exclaim, "Magic!"

Ms. Eckert and Mrs. Koski