The group had a wonderful return to the forest after an exciting Halloween weekend! We gathered at the Crow’s Nest for mud play, lots of art at the picnic tables, and to rinse the walnut dyed fabric and yarn in the dye pot. Thank you to Jung Ho for being a fabulous Forest Helper!

We returned to our play site at the fallen White Oak on Wednesday. A very light drizzle visited us for a minute or two, but under the canopy of the trees everyone stayed dry! We decided to have lunch under the Crow’s Nest in case of more drizzle, and Sarah delivered our most colorful lunch to date! We went through the colors of the rainbow, noticing which colors we could find in our lunch (every color but blue!). Thank you, Joni, for being a wonderful forest helper!

Thursday was spent at the fallen oak; climbing, running, building a house, and finding lots of acorns. Jessie jumped in to be forest helper at the last minute (THANK YOU!) since Ashley’s son wasn’t feeling his best. In the forest, many friends laid in the leaves and waited for a freshly fallen leaf to fall on them. It was a peaceful, warm day!

It was another cool morning in the forest at the fallen oak on Friday. Eva, A.B., and Kylie were in the forest with the students. A.B. and many other students created a game called “Race Mountain.” The logs were no longer slick from Monday’s rain, so there was a lot of climbing and balancing on the fallen oak and other large logs in the play area.

We were proud of the children for managing small conflicts this week. On Friday in particular Eva noted some instances where children were disagreeing. She stood back and watched and waited and they either resolved the conflict or agreed-to-disagree. Great emotion regulation!