On Tuesday we made a lot of mud pies, played all of our favorite running games, climbed up into the spruce trees, and made a new obstacle...

We found a new spot to make camp. Everyone helped to start the fire. We roasted leaves on the end of our sticks and pretended they were...

Ice provides an amazing sensory experience that we've been immersing ourselves in lately -- testing the thickness of the frozen pond,...

Adventures in the creek, waterfalls and quicksand mud, making an obstacle course, campfires and read-alouds, building a bigger debris...

We tried a lot of new things this week. One day we walked up the slope to a sunny spot and the kids wanted to make a "campsite" with a...

The past two weeks have been full of winter stories: stories we've read together around the fire and stories we've told together as we...

This week we read books about hibernation and talked about how different forest animals spend the winter months as we hid in our natural...

We had so much fun playing some new group games this past week: Bat and Moth, What Time is it Mr. Fox?, Forest Fire, and a game that...

We had so much fun exploring the snowy forest! The creek had lots of ice to skate on and break, and of course snow to eat! We found...

For Tuesday's class we challenged to kids to build a ladder with branches, scrap wood, hammer and nails. Everybody helped out with...