Finally, after rescheduling four times because of all kinds of weather, Carrie was able to come to school this week for an ECO session focused on animals in winter and tracking. We began the morning with an interactive story about different animal gaits and the track patterns created by each of these:  hoppers, walkers, bounders and waddlers.  Children then had an opportunity to try each gait, following tracks laid out on yoga mats.  This is harder than it sounds!  Ask your child which gait was most challenging.  After snack we headed outside to look for tracks.  Unfortunately because of all of the new, deep snow we saw very few tracks, except a dog or two down on the path.  However, we had lots of fun playing in the fresh snow down in the field creating a network of connected homes.