We had another fabulous day in the forest.  Despite the frosty weather everyone stayed warm.  Thank you for sending your children well prepared.  After making frost angels and playing a game, we headed into the forest.  Children were eager to check on their mouse houses, most of which were still intact.  Several children thought they saw evidence of visitors to their houses!  While we ate our snacks we talked about a recipe for a forest.  We then spent a large chunk of time in small groups gathering ingredients for this recipe.  We ended by writing in our ECO journals before our walk back to school.  Thank you to our volunteers, Sheila, Matthew's mom and Marya, Lucy's grandma  We were also joined by Lindsay Vandal, who works for North Branch Nature Center and runs ECO programs for Union Elementary School in Montpelier.  Our next ECO session is Wednesday, December 7th (3 weeks away because of the Thanksgiving break).  Children will have an opportunity to use potato peelers to peel bark from sticks during this session.  Today in your child's folder is a tool permission form that will need to be returned for your child to do this.  Please let me know if you would like to join us!  I will see you all in the next few days for conferences.