It’s Monday and at Miss Amy’s that means “Outdoor Classroom”. We take a short journey to a nearby park and explore what mother nature has to offer. The children look forward to it and it’s the perfect cure for the Monday blues. We let them guide themselves and try not to intervene too much. Today we brought clay for impression making, their sketch books, pastel chalks, charcoal, pencils, and a bug net.
The park we visit is beautiful but it is far from a jungle or even a forest, but the kids always equate our visits to being in the wilderness. They seem to go into foraging mode almost instantly.
A feather collection is started
The bug net spiked their interests immediately. They caught and observed a firefly, dragonfly, and an earwig.
Then one little boy noticed some decaying wood under a tree. He lifted up the wood and exclaimed, “Look Holy Rollies!”. One of the older kids said, “Do you mean Roly Poly’s ? They like to live under wood!”. The younger boy agreed that that’s what he meant, but for the rest of the day almost everyone referred to them as holy rollies.
-Miss Amber
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I love the names kids come up with! They are brilliant!😀
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Thank you Stephanie! Me too, such imaginative minds.
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