Today we took our first (of hopefully many) field trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center with our friends, the Hydos. E received a membership for his birthday (next week), and since we had a science lab that required studying nature, this seemed like the perfect place for some field work!
I kept T home from PreK to join us on this adventure!
Checking out the flowers....
You don't have to tell this girl more than once to "stop and smell the flowers"!
Looking for the otter and turtle (neither were out today).
Our attempt at a group photo....FAIL
Checking out the indoor exhibits!
Learning about the cycle of rain.
Checking out the tiny owls!
R really LOVED this microscope-type thing. He looked at a lot of different rocks.
Working on making our stick puppets for our puppet show!
The 2 yr olds worked hard sorting colored frogs!
After a picnic lunch, we got to work on our science lab. Today we did a Plot Study of a 1' x 1' piece of ground. Bonus - this is also part of a Tiger Cub badge! Killing two birds with one stone, here. Efficiency at its finest!
Laying out the string to section off his area.
Looking for living things (we found ants and roly-polies).
Charting our finds.
Rocks!
Checking out this "bat cave" with the youngers kids while E worked on his plot study.
Proof N and I were here!
While E finished his lab, the younger kids played tag in the field to work off some energy. T was "It".
Then C.
S spent a lot of time really teaching E about the things he was finding. I couldn't get down on the ground with him because of the baby, but she stepped right in and was amazing!
We can't wait to come back with our friends to explore more things in nature!
2 comments:
ReplyDelete1) Killing 2 birds with 1 stone? REALLY?
2) WAS IT AT THE H ANDS OF Reuben????? He did have a huge stone that he looked ready to heave!!!!'
2 comments:
ReplyDelete1) Killing 2 birds with 1 stone? REALLY?
2) WAS IT AT THE H ANDS OF Reuben????? He did have a huge stone that he looked ready to heave!!!!'