Wednesday in the Woods, January 20th

The day that...

we found lots of slides in the snow and ate banana bread outside in the winter.

On our way up, it was not so slippery. Some friends found signs that an animal had been walking around. They found a hole that looked like an animal had dug it! Today, for snack we had banana bread.

During play time, we were making a path for a ball to go down to two stumps at the bottom. We were using shovels to make the path. It didn't go all the way down, but it went down a little. We tried it a bunch of times.

This is us playing beavers. North American River Otter was playing the grandpa. Beaver is going fishing from her roof. She hoped to get a lot so she could eat them all up and then go to bed.

We were sliding down on the snow and that made a lot of trails and slides. Eastern Chipmunk and Eastern Box Turtle made them. Some friends joined in and played on the slides too! There were some special slides on one hill. They were really fast.

For stations, we read a story called The Mitten and we were acting it out. All of the animals wanted to be in the tiny, tiny mitten because they were cold. At the end of the story the bear sneezed and the animals went flying in every direction.

In another station we were making letters. We used sticks and wrote words in the snow. We pretended they were markers and pencils.

Today, the stream was frozen! Some of us slipped and even fell down. Some ice was not so solid so it was easier to get our boots wet. 

It was 22 degrees. Some people were warm and some people were cold. This was a good day.

Authors:Beaver, River Otter, Eastern Chipmunk, Raccoon, and Northern Shrike.