Thursday

We put our little plants into the tower garden today.  Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and all their hard work getting the tower garden started and teaching us about the plants we are growing.  We are so excited to see these plants grow.

Last week, we collected nature to use in our art lesson today.  We experimented making a variety of impressions using pine cones, moss, sticks, rocks, bark, and so much more.

Thank you SO much Nettie for helping us today at school.  We were so lucky to have your help today!

We also did an art exercise called, "The Interview."  They can't use words to communicate to each other only their drawings.  THIS EXERCISE IS AMAZING!  I loved seeing how each child responded to other child's markings.  Some would blend their drawings together, where others would draw parallel but not interfere with each other's work.  

The Results!  I think I clicked the camera a little too fast because I have a lot of blinked/closed eyes.  Oops!

Finally our snowshoe walk.  We have a raven follow us in the forest cawing.  Some children thought the raven was warning us to listen for water underneath the snow while others thought the raven was telling us we are in their territory.  

 "I like when I look up and the forest makes a circle in the sky."

  We liked this tree because of all it's moss.  We thought it was one hairy tree!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Snowshoe Thursday

We sure love our Thursday snowshoe days!  We were eager to try a new trail today so we headed for the cat tracks and headed on a new adventure.  The kids weren't interested in gathering moss this trip however they were excited to make the perfect "ice snowballs" because the weather is so warm we could melt perfect snowballs with our hands.

This is how to cool off at Big White.  Snow on the head!

I know what you are thinking they are wearing tank tops and t-shirts!  Let me tell you it was a WARM day :)

Have a great weekend everyone!

{{The Best}}

You know those days weeks that are just so good that you can't believe how lucky you could possibly be??? Well I got to bask in such a treat all this week.  My dream job I tell you!  I have the best kids, the best job, the best class… you get the point.  I am one lucky gal!  The weather has been, well, snowy lately and so today we took off into the forest for an adventure!

Don't these littles just melt your heart?!?!

I had to show both shots!  I unzipped the top of his coat and that is what was hiding underneath…. teeth!

The snowshoe gang today!

We are always very serious and we never have any fun!

 Snowshoeing with these littles consist a lot of looking for moss, trekking into small places, and well, lots of rest!

 We collected just a little bit of moss on our journey today.  They decided as a class that they would share all the moss and each child had a piece of bark plate and they divided it all equally.

 Arnold even helped collect the moss and maybe eat a bit of tree bark too.

This hill is just at the base of our school field.  I thought I would make them work really hard at the tail end of our trip.

After pushing all those little ones up the mountain I noticed the last person to still make it up….. was me!

I don't want to keep telling you how great it is up here BUT this forest is our backyard and we get to explore it any day we like!  Have a great weekend everyone!