We had a fantastic morning during ECO yesterday.  After snack around the fire and a brief story about chickadees, children became chickadees.  They worked in groups of three to build nests and gather food.  Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera, but  some fabulous, creative, and imaginative nests were created from a two floor nest to a nest hotel.  On our way out we went slowly and observed the many emerging buds, taking a picture in our minds so we could document what we saw when we returned.  Everyone was completely engaged the whole time we were in the forest, partly because everyone was warm and dry.  Thank you for helping with this- it makes a huge difference!

During writing we have been working on creating informational books about our nature name animals. We began the process several weeks ago by brainstorming a list of questions people may ask about our animals and using these to determine the information we would include.  We narrowed our questions to what does your animal look like, what does it eat, where does it live, and how does it move.  We are also including one interesting fact unique to each animal.

Next week the entire school will be participating in a weeklong artist residency focused on creating an outdoor community space at the school.  Children will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities from landscape design to building with rocks as work on this new space gets underway.  Be sure to ask your child about his or her experience with this next week.