Practice sessions using our Outdoor Classroom setup last Autumn until the rising case numbers shut us down, including a few days of in-person time with the older children and some Kindy lessons & playdates for Zac:
hauling stumps for the Outdoor Classroom
thank you to everyone who helped with this!
collecting straw bales from Big Muddy Hogs
to be outdoor seating
thank you for the donation!
thank you to everyone who lent us canopies and helped
to assemble them...
and who lent us hammocks!
Zac is so excited to start Kindergarten
science experiments
monarch caterpillar study
more monarch photos at A Marvelous Monarch Monday Morning
the water table is here!
finding little creatures
drawing on the sidewalk
is this the longest line ever?
no, wait, we can draw on the tree stumps!
box forts
pouring water into the holes in the big stump...
where does it go?
harvesting cherry tomatoes
we find an amazing plant in the garden with seeds that fly
painting a study of colorful & bumpy gourds
the bird nest sculpture project
making beautiful yarn-wrapped sticks to add to our nest
adding a pulley so you can deliver things to the baby birds
emu egg
emu egg compared to a chicken egg
ostrich egg
the biggest egg of them all!
one day a neighbor stops by with a whale vertebra
whale vertebra vs. deer vertebra
Autumn stories in Early Childhood
The Gigantic Turnip
sewing autumn leaves
sewing running stitch on burlap
taking a Nature walk and tying special treasures onto our hiking stick
it is so sunny and lovely outside!
and we are so lucky to be able to learn and play outdoors
and eat snack on a tree stump
herbs and spices for mixing up in the mud kitchen
our dragon eye mandala, a gift for the other group
fort building
The Story of the Harvest Loaf
making a timeline of the Titanic
straw bale seating in the canopy tent is so cozy
organizing all of the U.S. Presidents by date
The Bird Beak Experiment
making wet felted eggs
a gift for the other group
the mulch mountain is an enormous hit with all ages
so, we make it bigger!
a lesson on the relationship between decimals & fractions
9.4
case numbers are up, so school goes remote
see you in the Spring!
picking the one and only pumpkin from our garden
we become fascinated by skunks, so I needle felt one
and Zac decorates his little pumpkin as "Jimmy Skunk"
from the Thornton Burgess books
taking it to the library to enter in the contest
weaving a piece of spider web art on a fabulous tree branch
adding a wool spider... of course
persimmon seed
all the ingredients for a Witch's Brew
outside is actually a really good place for pumpkin carving
mulching the pollinator garden and putting it to bed for the winter
checking out the Story Walk
a monarch butterfly for Halloween, of course!
we know that we won't see everyone for a long time,
so Zac helps me make some blog posts with lesson ideas
and we set up a rhythm clock
so there's some kind of order to the endless days
thank you so much to the family who delivered
a delicious Thanksgiving dinner!
we have a lot to be grateful for!!!!
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