Tuesday Among the Trees, April 4th

The day that...

we played in the waterfall.

Warm Woodland Jumping Mouse wrote: I hope to see eggs. She left spaces between her words. Her words match her picture. She took her time to color carefully.

Reliable Raccoon wrote: I hope to see some blue bird eggs.  This is great because his words match his picture. He also used details in his picture. 

Eastern Redback Salamander wrote: I hope to see a snake.  It is easy for us to read because we can see that he drew the detail of a snake. We can see the spaces between the words and that the words match the pictures.  He challenged himself to use lower case letters. 

We had snack. We had popcorn and dried kiwi. We ate snack inside today because it was raining out.

We were throwing snow balls into the big puddle of water.  Nice northern shrike got water on his face. There was more water in this place than the last time we were in the forest.  Last time there was ice. It was deeper today than last time too. The water was dark.  We did not see fish or sunlight. 

This is Reliable Raccoon holding his stick so that he could test the water.  He was testing if the water was fast and how cold the water was. There is snow on the end of the stick. If the snow melts we know that the water is colder than the snow.

We saw yellow snow at the base of the trees.  We wondered if it was animal urine. One student thought it might be from a deer.  We kept seeing it at the bottom of trees, though, so we thought maybe it is sap from the tree. It is a mystery.

Engaged Eastern Redback Salamander got his foot stuck in a hole. It was really deep. Wise woodpecker got stuck in a hole today too. So did Balanced Blue Jay, Warm Woodland Jumping Mouse, and Bubbly Black Bear. 

Our snow girl was shrinking so we built a new one. Woodland Jumping Mouse was using a shovel.

We played in the stream for a little while.  We were throwing snow in the stream and walking along the stream up to our fire circle.

We had a great day.  We got wet.  It was 39 degrees outside.