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Notes from Nature Kids

September 24th, 2018

9/24/2018

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Sometimes, on a beautiful day (or a wet/cold/rainy one) we're just too busy with the wolf cubs to take pictures. This one captured a hunt for the elusive apples--way, way up the tree and practically impossible to get! I don't like to say many things are impossible, but we have tried to shake, shimmy, sing, whack and beg these apples down, to no avail. 
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There are a great many burdock plants in the forest, and it's one local plant the kids can easily learn to identify.  I think I saw Zavallennahh picking burrs out of someone's hair, this week, and somehow a game started of 'making the biggest burr ball.' I love talking with the kids about the cleverness of plants, and how these seeds like to hitch rides to new places on unsuspecting shoulders and pant legs. 
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On Friday morning, Creston woke up to a heavy downpour, and I wondered what kind of adventures our Nature School morning would bring. Thankfully, the rain was pretty much finished by the time we go there, but we decided to throw up a tarp just in case we needed some shelter. The kids were really keen to help tie knots and hang out underneath, and it was a fun challenge as a teacher trying to figure out how a slew of 4 year olds could help. When they come to you with a rope in hand and say 'what's my job?' you find them a loop to tie to, pretty quickly! 
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It's a bit hard to tell in this second picture, taken at the end of the same day, but there are three different bucket-pulley systems hanging around the tarp that the kids rigged up. It was a busy dance, avoiding ropes and buckets going up and down. They were proud of their work and buckets and pulleys is always a very collaborative, problem-solving filled activity. 
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Take care till next week! 

The Nature School Team 
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