Autumn has arrived and I couldn't be more excited to spend my favorite season with this group of nature kindergarteners.
We spent our first morning meeting of the week on the trail. We used nature greetings, played a nice round of Coconut, and brainstormed some life cycle of a tree actions.
Later in the week , we investigated acorns and read a story titled Because of an Acorn. This story tied in beautifully to the life cycle of trees so it made sense to practice our actions.
We started off as seeds.
After getting our needs met, we grew into hopeful saplings.
Continued growth turned into strong, confident adult trees.
Even Mother Nature has to face Father Time. We became old age trees.
Lastly, as all living things do, we met our make, died, and decomposed into dirt.
With trees on our mind, we looked for these stages of life. We found lots of seeds,
saplings,
adut trees,
and old age and fallen trees.
On our way in, we even found a new friend.
Sometimes, unexpected opportunities come our way. Nature kindergarteners are extremely flexible so we relish these opportunities. We were fortunate enough to have Touch of the Wild trailer from Wisconsin's Outdoor Heritage Education Center (https://www.outdoorheritageeducationcenter.com/) be stationed outside our school. Needless to say, we took advantage of this special surprise.
Every day, we enjoy being outside, working all over the curricular spectrum. That being said, writing outside is my favorite.
We broke out the nature backpacks and did some journaling with our nature notebooks. Just a lovely experience!
The end of our week brought us to a closer investigation to the final stage of the life cycle: decomposition. While we read articles, watched video snippets, and chatted about decomposers, the best part was going out side to fund some fungi.
We found plenty but the most exciting time might have been showing off the gigantic puffball mushroom brought in by another teacher.
We had to take it outside and start our decomposition observations.
We might have had some child-led play outside as well. Just a little!
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