Wednesday in the Woods, March 16

The day that...the Runnals came again and we cooked maple syrup.

We are rolling tree cookies down during playtime. We named one of the tree cookies Moochie. We have a whole imagined story about Moochie the tree cookie.

She is making a squirrel house.

We are cooking the sap into syrup and the popcorn at the same time.

We were eating muffins and they had green in the middle from a Leprechaun! We think the Leprechaun might have touched the muffins and put zucchini in them!

This is a book about Elmer, and in Miss Wetzel's station we were acting it out. Elmer is a patchwork elephant and two people were being Elmer at a time and we took turns. Some people got to be the other creatures in the jungle too. We switched the characters we were pretending to be. It was a little icy at the space where we did the play, but there was no snow.

Mrs. Minnucci shouted out a word and we had to find the beginning letter or ending letter sound. Raccoon found a few letters by a tree. The letters were on the ground and you had to walk or run to them. Mrs Minnucci called out words that had to do with maple syrup.

We are eating lunch by our fire. Mrs. Minnucci has maple syrup in her hand and she is measuring it with a thermometer. You know it is syrup when it is 219 degrees. We tasted it. It tasted like maple syrup, just not quite as sugary. We didn't get it cooked all the way to syrup today.

These are glasses of light looking and dark and darker maple sap. This is how it goes at a maple factory. It goes from very light to a little bit darker to darker to dark. The one on the left is the sap straight from the tree.

We have a spoon in our hand and we had maple syrup on a special kind of snow (generously made for us by a connection at Dunkin Donuts using their ice machine!) We poured the syrup on the snow. The snow is to cool it off so we can eat it.
It was a great day! It was 55 degrees in the morning, we stayed out as late as we possibly could!
Beaver, Box Turtle, Wood Turtle helped to write this. They say their favorite part was eating the syrup we made!