Forest Friday, October 13th

 "I hope to see pretty colors."

 "I hope to make a stegosaurus."

"I hope to see a T-rex."

Our journals looked great this morning!  We worked hard to listen to the sounds in words.  Some of us even wrote full words by ourselves.  We have learned the lowercase letters a, b, c, f, g, i, m, n, o, t,  and u.

During play time we played on the big rock.  Some of us slid down and some of us climbed up!

Many of us also found more salamanders under stumps and rocks.

For snack we made french fries but we called them Quechee fries!  Mr. Sadowski helped us cut potatoes from the garden.  Some were white and some were a magical purple!  We put the slices of potato into some oil on the fire.  We all tried them and liked them especially with a little salt.

After snack we did a leaf rubbing activity.  We had to find three different types of leaves and use a crayon to color and see the details of the leaves through the paper.  We may do this again during play time next week.

Before we went inside, some students acted out a story told by Mr. Sadowski about birds and how they live and grow.  It was funny to see our classmates pretend to be birds.

"I played on the big rock."

 "My friends played karate."

"I liked snack."

When we were inside we wrote about our day.  After being outside all day, we can add so many more details to our pictures.  We also know what we want to write about more quickly because we have new and fun ideas from what we have done outside!

We wore a lot of layers outside today.  Noble North American River Otter said that she felt like a marshmallow!  When we came out of the woods we were so much warmer because it was sunny.  We had a nice day.