taking the backroad

Discovery School Nature Study
Challenge #2: Noticing
May 9, 2009 Today we went to Great Crossing Park for our nature walk. Our goal was to just look, listen, and feel...nothing more specific than that. In the hour that we were there, we covered only about 100-200 yards of the trail and then back to the car. The kids found so many things to look at, photograph, sketch, in that short space. Since we’ve begun, I find them stopping more often on daily outings to just notice something they find interesting...a flower, a rock, a small plant growing from a crack in the sidewalk. We’ve stumbled upon something that they look forward to and find exciting and motivating.

Mushroom Study

Clover Study: Though I grew up loving this flower, it was a first time find for the kids.
Sycamore Study: We love the bark of this tree andwondered why the old ones all opened at the bottom? One opened all the way to the top and the kids wished they could climb up and jump out of the top into the Elkhorn Creek!

Embree measures herself against the flood gauge.