Posted by Alissa | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on May 12, 2017
We had a wonderful field trip on Thursday. Another teacher asked our class how it went when we returned to school and a student said, “It was fabulous!” I agree. We all went to the pond at Northfield Mountain to dig deep in the mud in search of small critters who live there. At first, it was hard to see the small insects, but once we did, the excitement started to build and children started filling their buckets with water striders, caddis flies, water bugs, tadpoles….and lots of other bugs.
Then we brought our buckets inside to put the insects under a microscope so we could observe what we saw up close. We drew pictures of the most interesting bug we saw and labeled it.
After our pond program we had lunch in a yurt!
Then we took off for a hike in the woods! We found a balance beam to walk across and a huge rock to climb for a class picture. Our day ended with a special snack and a bus ride back to school. Thanks so much to all the chaperones who joined us and helped out all through the day.
We celebrated Deb’s birthday this week! She will be retiring this year from LES and we sure will miss her!
We also had a special visit from local author, Micha Archer. She came in to teach the kids how to make paper and then how to use the paper to make a collage illustration. We will use our illustrations to make a class poetry book.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
