The day that...
We had grilled cheese.
We used teamwork to take our lunches up to the forest today.
We ate our lunch in the shelter because it was sprinkling a little bit. We made grilled cheese sandwiches as a snack. The cheese comes from Cabot, Vermont. This morning we found Cabot, Vermont and Quechee, Vermont on a map of Vermont. We also found airports, train stations, places to see performing arts, places to get information, camping places, horseback riding places, ski hills and fun sites, by looking for the symbols for these things in the map key. The key told us what the little picture meant and then we searched for the little picture on the map.
After lunch some of us went inside and some of us stayed out. 5 children went inside and 8 stayed outside. That is 13 all together! The kids who went inside worked on the letter pages for our class alphabet book. Each page has an upper case letter, a lower case letter and a border design. Northern Shrike painted the letter L. They were so colorful and each one was different. We were happy with the way they came out. We finished the whole alphabet! When the weather warms up we are looking forward to painting with water colors outside by the brook.
The kids who stayed outside played in the brook. Jumping Mouse is trying to get our water wheel to work. The base kept floating to the top. We solved that problem by putting a rock on it to weigh it down. We couldn't quite get the wheel to turn. It still didn't spin. We'll have to think about how we can adjust it so that the water can catch the sails and turn the wheel. We might need to use sticks and make bigger holes.
We also had more rubber duck races. The challenge was to see how far we could make the duck float without touching the duck. We used sticks and our hands to clear out leaves and sticks. We were trying to build up the water pressure to push the duck along. Box turtle introduced us to a new word to describe what we were working on: current. When water moves fast in a stream or river it is called current. Red squirrel had built a ramp for it a few days ago but we couldn't find it.
Today was a fun day. It was chilly outside - 50 degrees. We made really accurate predictions about the temperature even before we looked at the thermometer. We could tell the it felt about 40 or 50 degrees. This was our first Forest Day in May. Next week we are hoping for sunshine! Then we can have lunchtime in the sunshine. Today we had lunchtime in the rain cloud.
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