Thank you to Janice, Kirsten and Jen for spending Friday morning teaching us about insects! The children watched an engaging puppet show, sang a song about the parts of an insect, put the parts together and observed crickets and grasshoppers outside. It was an exciting morning and many children asked if we could have Nature every morning.
We are still looking for a third parent volunteer for our nature program. If you have time and flexibility in your schedule and would like to volunteer, please let me know.
Outdoor Classroom
On Friday afternoon we read the book Swirl by Swirl, Spirals in Nature and thought deeply about the swirls - and lines - we might see in the woods. We used our outdoor classroom time to go for a small hike, looking for different kinds of lines. As we walked children talked about the twisting roots and lines in the leaves, straight lines and zig zags! We stopped at a clearing and children recorded their findings before sharing their journal work with their reading partner. Visit again to see pictures of their drawings and labels in their nature journals.
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