With the lovely stream available to us, we must do some explorations, taking a day away from gardening for Children’s House and Lower Elementary.
We were streamside in small groups for a lesson for each of the classes. Every child was given a plastic spoon, “insect brush” and cup. We turned over rocks and explored under wood chips along the edge of the stream, essentially where the stream started.
Different groups found different things including salamanders (the person who catches the salamander with wet hands puts the salamander in a cup with a bit of water, and no one else touches it as we pass the cup around), crayfish, slugs, planaria (flatworm), cranefly larva, cadisfly larva, scuds and more.
Comments
Post a Comment