Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Today was a blast and your children should be very tired!

Tomorrow, On Thursday, April 29^th, we are meeting at the A&W parking lot at this location: https://goo.gl/maps/WzFgupLWHtuvtnZb8(51°06'29.1"N 114°14'22.9"W) between 8:20-8:30 am. 

We are leaving and doing attendance at 8:30, please do not be late!!! We have heard rumors from your talkative children that they will be getting food from Tim's or A&W.. we will not be waiting for people, please remember that area is quite busy already, without the extra 54 children and cars that will be there in the morning! We will have a drop off spot with adults in a vest. Do not have your children running through the parking lot!

If you cannot get your child dropped off, you need to e-mail Mrs. Zwack TONIGHT before 7pm! See supplies list at the end of the blog!

We started off our day with a circle and acknowledgement of the land and a offering to Na'a for all the things we are going to learn today.

We found our sit spot and wrote 6 word poems about the Coulee. Students did a beautiful job of listening and writing from the heart!

With our focus of zooming in, we used a square to focus in on what is going on. They had to look at two different ecosystem zones and sketch what they saw.

We enjoyed our lunch basking in the sun by the porta-potty.

We did some Earth Gym using hills, streams, and trees as our equipment. We of course played camouflage in the morning. Mrs. Derksen was back today, which the students were happy about as Mrs. Zwack's camouflage skills are not as sharp 😉

We discussed the importance of soil and how its formed. We took some soil core samples and sketched what we saw. Then we used our squares and spoons and looked at soil and what is in it from the surface.

Please make sure you bring these items tomorrow:

• Water bottles full of water -- most kids drank through 1 full bottle, and we will be walking a lot more, please bring 2 or more!
• Sunscreen 
• Kleenex
• Extra masks 
• Extra socks (!!! lots of people were walking wet today)
• metal spoon (label please!) for small digging activity
• Small plastic bag for any wet items 
• Comfortable clothing 
• Layers for all weather 
• Easy and "garbageless" snacks and lunches - all wrappers will be sent back home in order to "leave no trace" in the coulee.
• Hat 
• Gloves (thin)
• Good walking/trekking shoes or rubber boots (there are puddles, mud and the small stream to cross!