Nature Exploration

As we walked across campus on this windy winter morning to Meeting For Worship, the children were overheard talking about observations they were noticing on our walk. A few of the remembered comments were about the way the branches looked on the bare trees , the way the huge pile of twigs that had blown together looked like a nest and how the clouds in in the sky looked like the ocean.

We knew at that moment that at some point in our day we would try to return to this beautiful area on campus and explore the area through the lens of Andy Goldsworthy . Before going on our nature adventure we talked about the artist Andy Goldsworthy again and tried to imagine what he would think or do if he were on our nature adventure with us.

We collected various items found in nature to bring back to our classroom to further explore. The collection of items grew quite large, and the need to sort and classify became clearly necessary. What a wonderful authentic math lesson t o follow up with later this week.

Enjoy our slide show as we walk through our magnificent outdoor campus together.

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