Wednesday in the Woods, April 27th

The day that...

We ate pancakes and used tools to measure.

We played a game this morning.  It was called "Nesting Bird" and it was inspired by the book we read last week.  One person stands in the middle.  Mrs. T taps one of the people on the outside of the circle to be the Nesting Bird (while the guesser in the middle closes his or her eyes).  The nesting bird is quiet but all the other people make bird sounds.  The guesser has to guess which person is the nesting bird when they open their eyes.  

We were sitting in circle for morning meeting.  The reader always reads the thermometer.  The thermometer tells us what the temperature is.  Eastern Raccoon read the temperature - it was 49 degrees.  The fire was hurting Red Squirrel's eyes so he moved to a different place.

In this picture we are making pancakes.  Newt and Northern Shrike are watching Mrs. T. The pancakes were super yummy even though Mrs. T forgot to bring the maple syrup!  We used a cookbook to find the pancake recipe.  A cookbook is a non-fiction book.  That means it is true!  We used tools for measuring when we were cooking.  We used a measuring cup and measuring spoons.

Red Squirrel found an acorn that was a plant. He decided to bring it home so he could plant it.  An acorn is a seed.  We think that maybe the plant starts growing and when it gets to the acorn top it pops the top off.  Or maybe the seed waits for the top to fall off in the dirt and then it grows its roots. 

We found a stick that has a couple of little lines in it.  We think an animal or a person carved a secret message in it.  You can't see the lines unless you look closely.

This is lunchtime in the sunshine!  We read Miss Rumphius today. Barbara Cooney wrote the book and drew the pictures too!  She must be very talented.

This is a picture of Mrs. T's station today.  We had a math question to solve.  After all of the children had answered a question we played with rubber ducks in the brook!  American Robin was feeling happy.  He was looking for a stick for Mrs. T.  "I was leaf fishing," he says.

This is Miss Wetzel's station.  She made us balance things like tree cookies or leaves or sticks.  Newt and Blue Jay and Wood Turtle got the biggest one.  They put a tree cookie on each side and then had to add a whole bunch of leaves so that their plank would be flat.  When we measured leaves by putting more and more on, it didn't move a bit.  Leaves must not be heavy enough.  They must be zero pounds. Tree cookies and sticks and rocks were heavy.  We thought a big rock would match a big stick but when we put Eastern Chimunk's stick on the rock was heavier than the stick.  We could tell because the stick was up and the rock was down.

On our way out of the forest we saw a trout lily.  It was a blooming one.  Trout lilies are yellow.  We thought it looked like a tiny banana that was peeled open.  Trout lilies are wild flowers.

We had a great day.  We loved having pancakes.  It was crisp but sunny.  Some visitors came at the end of the day.  We hope that next week it will be even warmer!  But even if it's warmer, we still want to have lunchtime in the sunshine.

The End.

Written by Easter Chipmunk.
With some help from Red Squirrel and some others.