Class #11 + Class #12

We have been getting outside and enjoying the Spring weather lately. Each week, some students may choose to update their blogs, and others may choose to participate in a creative team sport or musical game. It's important to be able to make that choice, and we certainly encourage healthy outdoor play in this pleasant season.

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We also welcome the newest member of our blogging community: Democratic Race to the White House (by Dom)!

Class #10: Music & Monsters

In today's class, we sang some musical circle games and drew collaborative monster pictures.

Class #9: The Changing Season

As the winter melts away into Spring, we're exploring the woods...
Finding interesting treasures...
And then heading back to school to blog about it!

Class #8: Making Homes in the Forest

We're combining the wonderous Spring weather with our blogging practice! This week's outdoors adventure had us exploring the woods around the school's "fire pit," and making small homes and forts in the terrain there. (Watch how I link this post to other posts...)

First we found a "Woolly Bear" caterpillar on the snow!
Then, when we got out into the woods, we found lots of fresh deer tracks...
... and some other stuff the deer left behind!
We improved some of last year's stick huts out on the rocks.

We also used the log bridge (built by the Soonipi class) to get across a flooded field.

Class #7: An Adventure with a Camera

For this week's class, we ventured out into the woods and followed a stream of meltwater down through some wetlands and rockfields.

Students watched for scenes and details they wanted to photograph for their blogs, and near the bottom of the stream's run we built a system of "bridges" for fairies (a common interest of the students).

When we came back to the school, we used the rest of our time to process the photos and blog about our adventures!

Class #6: Blogging Our Adventures

This week, we went out into the forest in search of adventure. We decided to collect dry wood for the bonfire at this Friday's Winter Carnival.

This is Trevor:

Trevor came with us and helped us break up the larger pieces of wood.

Here's the woodpile we helped to build:

Then we came back in and updated our blogs about our adventures!

Class #5: More Posts & Comments

We posted new posts (the first in a month!) and commented on each other's blogs today.