What is the same? What is different?

 Meandering Monday took us to Rolling Ridge Nursery. When we arrived, what do you think we saw?

TREES! TREES! EVERYWHERE!

These trees are all green. Are they the same tree?!

What makes a tree the same? 

"This one is green and this one is green."

"They all have not leaves."

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How can trees be different?

"This one is the baby tree, and this one is big."

"These are the boy trees and those are the girl trees."

How does a tree feel?

"This one is soft and this one is spikey."

"This one is pointy!"

"This one feels smooth."

"This one grabbed my shirt!"

What do you notice about the trees we see?

"All the trees have a tag."

"It will grow into THIS!"

"The tags are all different."

"These are for to pay something."

We had a wonderful time investigating the green, spikey trees.

But...wait!  Just as we were leaving one friend looked up and spied...

"Hey!  Those trees have LEAVES!"

What do you notice about the trees around you?

How are they the same?

How are they different?

What can you discover by taking time to slow down and look...

Different forest

 As soon as we entered the forest our friends noticed changes...BIG changes!  We expected to see differences in the leaves and trees, but these changes were bigger than that!

Trees were MISSING!  The forest looked so open that you could see all the way through it.

"The forest is broken!"

"The guys cut all the trees down"

"The other class took the fort down so we can make a new one."

"It's not the same forest."

And, although our beloved forest is going through some big changes, it is still the same magical place filled with stories, imagination, discoveries, and fun.

"I made a slingshot!"

"We can make letters from nature."              "I found my letter of my name!."

"I'm looking for EH"

"AHHHHH!  Look at meeeeee!"

"I caught a FISH!!!!"

Ask your child what changes they noticed in the forest today!

Different routines.

 As the days turn colder, our morning routine may look a little different. Today we spent some time in the Collboratory before we had our meeting. It was new, it was different, AND we were flexible!

 We challenged Birch Room with the question:

How can you work together to build something we can GO IN?

Tell me about your structure?

How can I go IN?

"Here is the door.  You go in the door."

You are climbing ON, how can we go IN?

You can see IN through the windows!

Our friends LOVE to build obstacle courses that they walk on.

They love to build cars they sit on.

They love to build trains they can ride on.

Building something they could go IN was different.

It stretched their brains and caused them to work in new ways.

It was hard.

We had to try and try again.

We stuck with it.

We did it!

I wonder...

How was your day different today?

Did you GO IN something today?

How did you work together?