Everyone is planning on getting warm this upcoming season! How do you stay warm? How do animals stay warm during the long, cold winter? That was the question on our mind this week! We learned about hibernation, migration and adaptation through games, discussions, and hands-on exploration. Outside we searched out areas that may be a good place for an animal to cozy up for the cold months. We kept our eyes to the skies and searched for signs of migrating birds!For the first half of the week, we saw mostly raindrops. With rain came hikes to the stream, puddle play and wiggly worms!
Some of our favorite activities this week included:
-Hiking to the stream on our new property
-Acting out how animals hibernate
-Making quesadillas in the fox class
-Creating mosaic mud turtle shells with clay and broken tiles
-Meeting the screech owl in the rabbit class
-Creating journey sticks by wrapping discoveries onto our walking sticks with yarn
-Having family visitors come in and share with us
We are looking forward to the wonders that winter will bring! Until next time!
The Nature Preschool at Irvine
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- A little frog in the rain!
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- The bears chasing Mr. Takari!
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- I see you!
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- Bird Blind Explorations
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- What do you see?
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- Salamander Discoveries
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- Sailing Away in the Outdoor Classroom!
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- That is one mighty, tall tower!
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- Smile!
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- A stream critter discovery!
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- Nature Journals with the Bears!
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- Circle time with the chipmunk class!
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- Clay and tile fragments make a beautiful turtle shell!
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- Mosaic Turtle Shells
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- The final product!
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- Migrating Geese!
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- Hibernating Animals!
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- Mud play in the outdoor classroom!
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- Muddy Smiles!
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- Puddle Play!
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- Climbing on this slippery log!
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- Muddy face, happy girl!
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- A special circle time visit!
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- The coyotes out on their hike!
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- The coyotes are looking for the new stream!
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- We found Ferngully!
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- Hibernating animals!
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- Are you sleeping little bats? Can we wake you?
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- Hibernating Dormice, curled up for winter’s sleep!
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- A smiling, hibernating hedgehog!
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- Ladybug hibernation – time to pile up!
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- The bubbling tree!
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- A bear!
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- Working the clay!
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- Stream play with the Flying Squirrels!
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- Exploring the newest stream!
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- Circle time in sunshine!
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- Looking up! Do you see any migrating birds? What else do you see?
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- Miss Karen enjoyed teaching the flying squirrels on Thursday!
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- Puppet Show!
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- Painting Migrating Birds!
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- Exploring wet findings!
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- What did you discover?
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- Color matching with Miss Nancy!
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- Blue Goose!
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- Mud paint!
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- This reptile is working hard in the building area!
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- Princess Play!
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- A puppet show from the loft!
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- Searching puddles with Miss Erin!
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- What did you discover?
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- Catching raindrops with Miss Swati!
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- Cooking up some quesadillas! We were hungry monarchs after our long migration!
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- Meadow Day!
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- Exploring these dried flowers!
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- Sleeping Bats!
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- Curl up to hibernate!
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- A very special puppet show!
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- Shared by a family in the rabbit class!
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- Making feather necklaces!
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- Coloring feathers and beading!
