Tuesday Among the Trees, November 8th

The day that...

We found crystals.

We were so quiet at sit spots today that some of us disappeared.  Miss Wetzel was sending each child back to the circle one by one.  Wise white footed deer mouse was very quiet like it was bedtime in his house and he was so quiet that it was like his mom couldn't hear him and she thought he wasn't there sleeping.  So, when Miss Wetzel was looking for children to send to the circle she did not even see him.  Bubbly black bear disappeared too! 

We heard the fire story and collected sticks.  We collected little sticks and big sticks.  Skinny sticks are called mouse tails.  Sticks that are a little bit thicker are chickadee sticks.  These are the sticks we need to collect to get our fires started. 

After the story we all had to collect 10 sticks.  This is a picture of Selfless snowy owl and her sticks.

We were pretending we were bears.  This stick house is going to be our cave.  Wise white footed deer mouse and Decisive deer were playing in the house but Reliable Raccoon wanted to come in too.  We let him come in after all.

Enthusiastic Easter Newt, Nice Northern Shrike and Warm Woodland Jumping mouse found 2 crystals.  Some of the other children were trying to get the crystals but the children with the crystals were running fast.  Nice northern shrike fell!  He got right back up.  Eastern Newt didn't even know that he fell.  If he did know that, he would have helped him get up and checked to make sure he was o.k. Brave Barred Owl and Sweet snowshoe hare were pretending to be bears and Responsible Red Fox and Selfless Snowy Owl were the baby cubs.

We were building shapes.  We built a square, a triangle, a rectangle and a trapezoid.  We used sticks.    

We are making shapes with our bodies.  We made a trapezoid.

In our other work group we collected sticks and got tools.  We were talking about forest jobs.  We will have forest jobs so that we can take care of the forest and take care of each other.

It was 40 degrees this morning.  When we left the forest at 12:30, it was 54 degrees.  54 degrees is much warmer that 40.  The sun warmed up the forest.