Learning about beavers

In kindergarten, we investigate the question: "How do animals change the environment to meet their needs?" Joan Carey from Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center came and spoke to us about beavers. Beavers meet their needs for safety and food by building dams and creating ponds where they can safely build their lodge to live in.

MIgrating

Our classroom felt awfully cold so we migrated to the warm library in search of food (our snack!)

Tracking Animals in Winter

As part of our study about animals in winter and, in particular, animals that stay active in the winter, Environmental Educator, Kristina from Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center, came and taught us about animal tracks. We learned about their different patterns (walkers, waddlers, bounders and hoppers) and then we went outside and tried moving in the different patterns and finally we went in the forest and found tracks! We found lots of fox tracks (as well as some fox urine snd scat) and some deer tracks.

Animals in Winter

As part of our unit about Animals in Winter, we became hibernators and sleepers as bears sleeping in caves and bats hibernating in caves!

Visiting the Big Kids

The kindergartners spent time in Sarah Kaltenbaugh's 6th-grade classroom getting to know the big kids, reading books and working on solving problems to open a lockbox puzzle. Allie, our Antioch intern, will be interning in this classroom for the second semester, so we plan on visiting again!