Thursday September 27, 2018
Waning Gibbous Moon
Today we returned to one of our new favorite
spots, Schooner's Gulch! When we left the school, the land was
enveloped in a thick blanket of fog. When we arrived at Schoonie's
though, the fog was only up in the sky and the surrounding landscape was
clear. We had morning circle in the Redwoods, and Ms. Leah told us about Faerie Rings and why the Redwood's make them. While we were under the Redwood canopy, B. found a really nice stick which she then
used to write the letter 'R' in the duff. Her classmates were so
excited by this that they all chose their own writing sticks to take to
the beach with them and practice writing letters and sight words (later on we also used our feet to write sight words in the sand!) Once at the beach we drew, wrote, and
dug in the sand and climbed on our favorite cliffs until snack. Then we
went for a walk to the far end of the beach.
We were hoping to find
some tide pools since we were lucky enough to catch the beach at low
tide. The children found some fun new caves to explore, as well as sea
snails and oysters living on the partially submerged rocks. We also
found some washed up jellyfish, part of a stingray, and some shrimp exoskeleton's, which D. was very excited to bring home!
After this we returned to our "home base" to play some more and build
sandcastles. Not long after, it was already time to return to school!
B. was very sad to leave, so I reminded her that would have the
chance to come back to this beach several times throughout the school
year. We then said goodbye to Schooner's, and shared our highlights of
the day as we walked together back to the cars.
Thursday September 27, 2018