Little Monsters

On this day we played for three hours outside with snack and water breaks and no disagreements. We explored palmetto branch caves, cooked in stone kitchens, vanquished dragons and ran screaming from green witches.

Play is the most important work of childhood. Today we problem solved, we engineered, we experimented, we comforted, and we listened.

Pumpkin science: do they sink or do they float? And some abstract pumpkin art too! How are you kicking off the fall season? 🎃


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Some sunny Saturday feels for you :)

I spy with my little eye an octopus flying through the sky!

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Serving up some fresh fall feels over here!

This is the happiest Friday because we got to return to our roots of eating lunch outside under the oak trees and soaking up all the fresh air and sunlight that we could!

Happy marvelous Monday! The air is fresh and cool this morning and the ground is covered in tiny purple flowers. I am so grateful for the beauty of it all!
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First lesson of outdoor class: Don't get discouraged.

Or at least try not to get discouraged. Lesson plans for studying clouds were prepped and ready to go for this week. Cotton to represent cumulous clouds, pipettes to practice hand strength and collecting and dropping water, a blanket to lie down on outside to observe the clouds, and a small pile of cloud literature.

Well, after squishing, sniffing, and throwing our cotton clouds, no one was very interested in taking them outside to learn about saturation and precipitation. No one was very interested in lying on the blanket to gaze up at the sky, either. Instead, we- ran as fast as we could across the field, picked seed pods and observed the seeds inside, chased butterflies, relaxed on logs and peeled up the bark to observe the beetles and bugs crawling underneath. We swung on our swings and pretended to fly into the clouds. I pointed out cumulous, stratus, and some ominous cumulonimbus clouds. By the end of the day we were given the chance to observe a fantastic rainshower, courtesy of those cumulonimbus clouds.

I am reminded that being outdoors often requires no lesson plans, and that no lesson plan could replace the knowledge gained by exploration.

We moved our cloud lesson indoors today, and it was a huge success ;)

Rain rain go away, our lesson on clouds got a little messy today!

Outside and connected to it all!

The storm has passed, and tomorrow we are back to gathering, exploring, and perching atop moss covered stones!

Tomorrow we will get back into the swing of it all, thankful and grateful for the ability to do our little outdoor adventures.

Stay safe these next few days, my wild friends!