Wednesday in the Woods, April 6th

The day that...
We drank hot chocolate.


Today we did a puppet show!  It was fun. 


We ate popcorn.  Miss Wetzel cooked the popcorn over the fire.  She had a black pan.  She put the popcorn in there and she shook it over the fire with her hands.  We saw the popcorn through the little holes and we heard it go pop, pop, pop, pop. When raccoon came back from his play area he heard it go pop, pop, pop.  He smelled it too.


Next we had hot chocolate.  We got seconds.  Red Squirrel burned his tongue on his seconds.  We made the hot chocolate with milk.  Mrs. T made us guess what our treat was going to be.  Her clues were: it is drinkable, it is sweet, it comes from cows, and it is hot.  Raccoon loved the hot chocolate.  Red squirrel thought it was yummy, too.  Eastern Chipmunk doesn't like hot chocolate.


Mrs. T was saying numbers.  If the number was bigger than 32 we would go fast and pretend to be rain drops.  If it was smaller than 32 we pretended to be snow.  When it was time to stand up, she said: "Evaporate!". 


In this picture we were pretending to be snow. She might have said "it is 25 degrees."


 We measured things that were 1 inch.  Then we looked for things that were 3 inches and 5 inches.


Newt is measuring a tiny, tiny stick.  He wanted to know if it was 1 inch or if it was 3 inches.  He can't remember now but Red Squirrel thinks it was 1 inch because we can't even see it so it must have been small.


We cut up some buds and looked inside them.  We had a handkerchief and we looked at buds on it.  We used tweezers, fingernail clippers, scissors, knitting needles and magnifying glasses,   


Some kids studied the buds during play time.  Eastern Newt and Wood Turtle wanted to work with Squirrel because he was using scissors to collect buds.  They decided to only take a few buds from each tree because they still wanted the tree to have life.  They only took the pointy ones because the little ones were not ready yet.

Today we had fun.  Box Turtle's Grampa came.  It was 41 degrees.  It was cold.

The End.

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