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Spring is here and our Outdoor Classroom is growing momentum every week. Our learners went on an epic Letter Egg Hunt today! We each chose a letter, then worked very hard to track down our matching letter in hidden eggs throughout the school's front field. As the weather shifts to warmer days, we are enjoying longer amounts of free play in nature and engaging in longer learning activities outside. Earlier this school year, our early education team visited a school in Vermont that has a weekly Forest Kindergarten. One teacher commented how her students always seemed to find their way to the edges of the recess yard now that they play in the woods together. I've watched our group through the year and enjoyed seeing a similar phenomenon. Our learners were found at the outskirts of our playground a couple weeks ago, noting that the field puddles were covered in ice and using stones to plunk through the thinner edges of the frozen surface. Later in the afternoon, we were back out for our end of the day recess. The same students were delighted to find the ice had melted. We discussed what changed during the day in order for the ice to have changed to water...a conversation that relates so directly to our study of States of Matter. Here are some of my favorite pictures from today's letter hunt adventure!
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Karen Prew
4/1/2016 03:19:47 pm
Looks like fun! Thanks for posting Mrs. Andersen!
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Mrs. AndersenKindergarten teacher, Mom, musician, robot aficionado, and milkweed enthusiast. Archives
March 2018
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