November 18, 2016

It was another glorious day in the forest! It was hard to believe that it was the end of November! We took full advantage of the weather and stayed out as long as we could! Today we had two amazing parent volunteers come and help out during Forest Friday! Thank you Mrs. Wild Turkey (Cassandra DeMond) and Mrs. Red Tailed Hawk (Melissa Perrino) for spending time in the forest with us today! We loved the bread on a stick! Enjoy the Thanksgiving Holidays everyone!

Today during Forest Meeting Red Squirrel was looking at the thermometer. It was sunny and unusually warm for November. He even had to take his jacket off!

Vermont Frog was digging in the dirt in her sit spot. It looks like she was digging a hole. Today during sit spots we were pretending to be salamanders and using our hands to notice what was the same and different about our spot.

We had a very special visitor to our forest today. Our principal, Silver Fox, came up to see what the kindergartners and first graders were up to in the woods. Silver Fox and Red Tailed Hawk were digging together at his sit spot. 

Bat found some sticks at his it spot.

Mrs. Red Tailed Hawk is eating snack and talking to forest friends. We had cheese sticks and banana muffins for snack today.

Dirt City is a special place that we discovered near our site.  There is a whole bunch of dirt and some knocked over trees. We get to knock down dirt with sticks. There is also a tree that we can walk on like a balance beam. We marked off some hazards to keep us safe. Dirt City is our FAVORITE place!

Grey Squirrel was creating a fort in the dirt. He wanted to make sure there were no snakes hibernating in his new place!

Red Tail Hawk, Bald Eagle, and Robin were walking across the bridge leaving Dirt City.  We were holding our stick toys.  We were playing army.

Dirty kids are Happy Kids! Newt loved playing in the mud today!

During one of our stations, We made bread on a stick with Mrs. Sparrow. We had to wrap the bread around the stick. We roasted it over the fire. I bet you have never made dough on a stick in nature before! It was delicious!

During Ms. Black Bear's station, we were practicing our observation skills to create a scientific drawing of a plant. We had two choices, ferns or little pine trees that were growing low to the ground.   We drew exactly what we saw using our senses, especially our eyes to see and our hands to touch.

Painted turtle was working hard to get her drawing of pine needles just right. Everyone worked so hard on these drawings and are excited to keep working on them next time.

Miss Karner gave us pointers while we were drawing! Thanks Miss Karner!

The ferns were much harder to draw but we tried our best said Red Backed Salamander.

Mrs. Wild Turkey Enjoyed helping all the students cook their bread on a stick! Wild Turkey really enjoyed having her mom join her in the forest!

We had tea and read a book in the teepee with Mrs. Woodpecker and Mr. Connor. The tea was delicious. The spider was tricky.  During Stations, we found Anansi crawling around in our bucket and wondered if he was trying to play a trick on us!

Mrs. Panasci lead us in some balancing exercises! We had to balance on one, two, and sometime three body parts! Some of us fell over! We laughed! It was great fun!

Flying like an airplane! Go Mrs. Panasci Go!

Mrs. Red Tailed Hawk enjoying a leisurely lunch around the fire with Red Tail Hawk and his friends.

Back at Dirt City Newt, Red Back Salamander, and Grey Fox  were exploring the trees by climbing them, moving them, and using tools to dig holes in them!

Skunk had the most amazing day today! Look at me, she said to Mrs. Sparrow. Nothing beats playing in the dirt!