Who lives here?

  Who lives in the sensory table?

Frogs, insects, turtles, flowers.

Why do you think they live in the sensory table?

Because there's water, rocks, and lily pads. 

"Frogs like to jump from lily pads and logs." AG

Who lives on the light table? 

"Polar bears and penguins!" CH and BL

"My shark lives in the water." KKJ

"I'm making a nursing log and a bunch of insects live in there." JW

"I am making a really tall tree that gets knocked over!" KKJ

Build your animal a home.

"My pig lives in the mud." AD

"My pig lives on a farm." FK

Where do they live?

This morning we read a book during meeting called Log Life by Amy Hevron.

We learned all about nurse logs, how they happen and what is living inside of them.. a bunch of small habitats!

During our walk today we noticed different creatures and where they live. 

Are all of their homes the same?

Are some small? Some big? 

Are some homes hidden? 

Check out what kinds of homes we found today!

 A minute into our walk we found some trees that have fallen over that look just like nurse logs from the book we read. 

I wonder if there is habitats in there.. What kind of creatures do you see?

We found a wall with so many small holes..

What do you see?

Who do you think lives there? 

We found SO many things flying around in the flowers.

PC found a butterfly. 

Where do you think butterflies live? "In the flowers." PC

"I think bunnies live in the flowers too." VE

Where else could bunnies live? 

We found bumble bees in a couple different places!

SS found them at the top of the forest.

Other friends found them in the flowers.

MP found a spiderweb! It's small and "looks like a tunnel."

 

There is a monster in the Forest!

Beware... 

THERE ARE MONSTERS IN THE FOREST! We left on a hunt to find habitats in our forest, and stumbled upon a witch making monsters. 

Run, run as fast as you can - AD and MP will catch you if they can!

Walking with a purpose.

During meeting today we talked about what it means to be a Birch Room Friend. What should our bodies, brains, and hearts do? After much conversation we decided Birch Friends...

Help Others. 

Are Kind to Everyone.

Clean Up.

Take Care (of ourselves, others, our classroom, our whole world).

Stick Together, Always. 

Show Respect.

These agreements inspired us, so we decided to add a little intentional practice into our weekly walk.

We put on our "observation hats" and turned them WAY up! We were walking with two purposes. 1. Find places things can live in our neighborhood 2. Be the best Birch Room Friend we could be. 

Check out our photos and videos, can you see ways we followed our agreements? Did you know our whole community is full homes for things, from cars to squirrels and birds to bugs.

A house for books.

 Spiders live in a web.

The chicken house.

A house for people to live. 

An apartment is where 100 people live when the grow up older.

Ants live on the ground and in their ant hills.

This toad lives in our Forest!

Cars live in a garage!

There is a hole in this tree. It maybe is a squirrel or a bird, maybe a bat.

What do you think lives in this deep, dark hole?

There is trash living in the trash can! And the trash truck. 

Belle, the dog, lives next door.