Tuesday November 5, 2019
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Today the Forest Kinder's got to go exploring in a new location; the Gualala Arts Center. We didn't go into the art center though, instead the students found a path and followed it into a beautiful redwood forest. At each fork in the trail, the children circled up and decided together which way to go. Soon, we found ourselves standing beside the Gualala River. We slid down the soft, silty bank and immediately found a wing sitting in the dry part of the river bed! The wing was very dark brown, almost black, and the smaller feathers on the upper side of the wings had a light brown tip. Very interesting clues, and the children had a couple different guesses about who this wing may have belonged to.
After investigating the wing we found a beautiful spot to hold morning
circle by the river bank. There we talked about how different the
location looked from when the kindergarten class went last year, when
the very spot we were sitting in was covered in deep water! It's going
to be really fun to start tracking the changes that happen at this spot
each time we visit! The children did a lot of tracking during this
adventure; following hoof prints and noticing the large amounts of
feathers and bones that were scattered along the edge of the trail. We
even found a pig hoof! Our theory is that we had stumbled upon the
feeding grounds of a large predator. I wonder what we will find next
time we visit?