A Walk About Campus, and other scientific endevours

Today we welcomed several news friends to the Turtle Room, and they quickly learned the ropes!

The children built a house, 

made more delicious dinners, 

drew roads on chalk boards, 

and used letter stamps on paper.

At Morning Meeting, Tamara shared a picture of the slug that Caimin found on Friday, and asked if anyone knew what kind of creature it was. There were lots of guesses, including rattle snake and worm. Jacob said with authority that it was a slug, and then explained the different parts of a slug.
Snack time discussion included a lively conversation about problem solving. David told the new Turtles all about the Peace Table, and the children had lots of ideas about friendly ways to solve problems. I'll transcribe the conversation and post it later because it was so interesting!

After playing on the playground for a while, we decided to take a walk. Our discoveries today included:

a wild flower garden,

a giant spider,

the giant puddle tree,

and tracks in mud.

The children began making their own tracks in the muds with their index fingers, and were disappointed when we had to leave the mud. We may try making our own mud to see what kinds of tracks we can make.

Fran read The Marvelous Toy and I Ain't Gonna Paint No More and then we sang goodbye to our half day friends.

The full day friends then convened to lunch, where we had conversations about our favorite foods, our class walk, and what we had for dinner the night before.