The Turtles spent the day learning about connections to the land and to each other and how we all help to make our group unique! We reviewed our nature names and today we added a simple action that we could do with our fingers, hands or arms! Do you remember the action you chose for your name? Can you remember some of the actions of your friends? Looking forward to seeing who remembers next time we meet!
During our morning circle time, we talked not only about how we were feeling but also about how our actions can affect the feelings of others. After Monarch had fallen on the grass, we talked about how she would have felt if everyone had just walked by and ignored her. Would that make you feel sad? What would you do if someone got hurt? Would you help them? Throughout the day there were many instances where we could reflect on how important our words and actions can be.
In the library, Grey Squirrel talked to us about how some Indigenous communities connect to land and each other by creating stories called legends. These legends are passed on from generation to generation. Grey Squirrel shared a legend about “How the Beaver Lost Its Tail”, it was not just about the fact that a beaver has a flat tail but lessons about being a good person are also part of legends. One of the lessons was about being boastful and how only caring about yourself can sometimes create a lot of problems. Do you remember what boastful means? Can you retell the legend to your family?
By the afternoon, we looked at photos of different kinds of spiders, looked at their unique characteristics and how they connect to the natural world using their webs. To help us visualize, we played a spider web game in which the Turtles put their special items that represented them on dots in our side yard. Dragonfly slowly joined all the dots, illustrating how we are a nature school family and all our special qualities and interests combine together to make an awesome group! If we were all the same it would be pretty boring! Can you remember what nature friend was close to you while you were a part of the web? What skills or talents did they have?
It was fun to try to find spiders and their webs throughout the trails and Mystery Forest. Catfish noticed one in a hole inside a fallen log. We even tried making our own webs with twigs. Was it easy or hard to make a spider web?
Turtles were excited to open up their nature notebooks and make an entry for October 1. They wrote, drew pictures of spider webs and also glued a picture of a web. It was good to see the Turtles solidifying their connections they made today on paper. One day soon, the nature notebooks will go home for a week so you too can share in their adventures at Coyote Nature School.
Have a wonderful webby week! Dragonfly and Cardinal
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