MONDAY Monday was very rainy and chilly. We started out in the parachute shelter with a nice fire and read the Mud Puddle story. Then we went out and found some newly formed mud puddles to jump and splash in, as we fully embraced the weather! We worked on "dictated stories." This is an activity where kids make up stories and we write them down word for word in their journals. Then we share the stories out loud with the whole group. Everyone had a blast sharing their very

We had a wide variety of activities going on this week, but we noticed that what captured the kids' attention the most on any given day was one thing in particular: Ice. We noticed that some parts of the creek were flowing, while other parts were frozen. We found ice that was so thin and fragile, it broke as soon as we touched it. We also found ice that was nearly an inch thick and then we carried chunks of it around without it breaking at all. We found icicles forming w

Monday We discovered bunch of fairy homes near the waterfall and have been adding more throughout the week. It's become a fairy village! We went canoeing in the pond! There was thin layer of ice on top that we had to break through. Tuesday We've been working on lighting the daily fire with ferro rods. It's challenging and sometimes it takes awhile, but we keep on practicing. We painted space rocks to hide around Fairywood. We made boats out of orange peels, avocado skins,