ECO

We had quite a busy week last week! For our ECO day on Wednesday, we continued our learning about tracks and animal gaits. We waddled like bears, walked like dear, bounded like weasels and hopped like rabbits. When we got to Harrison Field, we played a game in which the children had to pretend to be a Vermont animal and think about how the animal moves. In this tag game, if the gait of their animal is called by the tagger, they need to make their way across the field (as a hopper, walker, bounder, or waddler) without getting tagged. We had a good laugh as everyone (adults included) tried to mimic the different animal gaits! After, we broke into small groups and looked for animal tracks in the woods. We used a spray bottle of colored water to "highlight" tracks we found and see if we could read the "story" the tracks were telling us. Thankfully the weather was beautiful and we could enjoy the snow the snow that had recently fallen. Before heading back to school the children had time to enjoy being outdoors! Some chose to build forts and many chose to slide down the hill. It was another lovely ECO day!