November 06th, 2019

Today, a second group of children (Oliver, Olivia, Wolf B, Fletcher and Lane) went for a walk in the neighborhood. It was interesting to hear what they noticed. There were discussions about tree heights, smelling sage/flowers, seeing where Oliver's friend Andy lives and much more. (hover on pics for captions)

Oliver commented on the different heights of the trees.

We bummed into Kim and Lucia (an incoming Brown Room child who will start school soon). They showed us a photo of a cool bug they had seen.

Oliver used this red guard rail as a point of reference to know where his friend Andy lives.

Nature exists even in the smallest of places...like cracks in the sidewalk.

Fletcher noticed some tiny white spots on the brick and called over the group to take a look.

They noticed the spots smeared and decided they must have been chalk.

This group noticed the sewers as well. Lane saw the letters and said, "P like Palmer." That led Oliver to notice the O and remark, "O for Oliver," to which Olivia added, "and Olivia."

They noticed the sewer.

There were wonderings about why the sewer has a hole.

We saw lion statues! The children noticed the lions' "curly hair."

Smelling sage leaves.

It's always nice to take time and smell the flowers!

We saw a newspaper on the sidewalk. When I told the kids that was the newspaper Emilia's dad writes, someone theorized we must be in front of her house.

Fletcher saw this drainpipe and broke into the song Itsy Bitsy Spider. Others joined in.

Wolf noticed another 'sewer' but was curious why it was different than the first one we saw.

Olivia showed Oliver a pumpkin with a face drawn on it.

Fletcher loved watching his shadow!

Wolf B loved this gate decoration and called it a, "lion."

Lane noticed some fence detail.

There was also more work on clay fairy houses today. They are really coming along!

And here are a few images from our Backwards Day as well!