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Week 2! Wednesday Forest Dreamers 2-19-2020

February 25, 2020 - Forest Dreamers

In our second week of Forest Dreamers, students explored one of their favorite destinations, the Native American site! Our morning started with a drawing exercise of bark rubbings and drawing… Read more »

Tags: art cat climbing deer drawing eggs fire Native American salamander Story tracking tracks Vines wigwam

Week 12 Forest Dreamers! 12-04-19

December 12, 2019 - Forest Dreamers

Good Morning to all the dreamers and their families! In week 12 of class we dove into the mystery of animal tracks! Our morning activity included drawing tracks, guessing which… Read more »

Tags: animals burrows Community footprints fun grass insects mammals meadow scat science tracks trees in winter winter winter fun

Living Wetlands Week 6 and 7

April 25, 2017 - Earth Friends, Preschool

Week 6 Today was the day of our campfire party where we celebrated around a large campfire with campfire snacks like hot dogs, s’mores and roasted apples.  It was a… Read more »

Tags: animal tracks bloodroot campfire cattails Flow Chart flowers Great horned owl Homeschool at Irvine Irvine Irvine Homeschool May Apple mucky mud natural dye nocturnal Phenology Plant buds Plant Phenology plaster tracks prehensile tail Red-backed salamander salamander skunk cabbage smelly soil spicebush stinky toothwort tracks violet virginia opossum wet wetland

Living Wetlands Week 4

March 27, 2017 - Earth Friends, Preschool

Today was the first day of spring!  There was also still some snow on the ground from the snow storm that hit our area last week.  Because of the snow… Read more »

Tags: animal tracks food chain Food web fox fungus Homeschool Homeschool at Irvine Irvine Irvine Homeschool Irvine Nature Center Phenology raccoon skunk cabbage snow snow painting spicebush squirrel tracking tracks Turkey Vulture wetland food chain

Living Off of The Land Week 9

November 22, 2016 - Earth Friends

Although we normally start with a check in circle, it is more important to read the energy of the group to decide what to do. Thusly, we decided not to… Read more »

Tags: clay creek Dogbane Earth Friends Hairy Bittercress Irvine Irvine Nature Center Living Off of The Land milkweed Northern Harrier Preying Mantis Preying Mantis Egg Sac Riddles Rut tracks

Animal Clues Abound!

February 1, 2014 - Preschool Weekly

Children tromped in the snow and examined winter animal clues (we even found a raccoon taill…) We built forts with old Christmas trees, too. We are loving the all this… Read more »

Tags: animal clues mud tracks winter winter activities winter tracks

Whose Tracks?

January 28, 2012 - Preschool Weekly

This Week’s Adventures: We were really making tracks learning all about the shapes of different animals’ feet. Favorite Activities: We loved stamping animal tracks on artwork and narrating stories about… Read more »

Tags: animal adaptations animal clues deer nature preschool tracking tracks winter winter activities winter tracks

Animal Clues

October 7, 2011 - Preschool Weekly

This Week’s Adventures: We learned that animals and people can leave behind clues as they move about.  We were “nature detectives” and discovered many of these clues. Favorite Activities: We… Read more »

Tags: animal adaptations animal tracks clues footprints math ideas nature preschool prints shapes track matching tracks

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