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February in the Forest pt I

Slackline Attempting to light "fairy fires" with flint and steel; wood carving It's really fun to practice archery from up in the...

February in the Forest pt II

Making bridges across the water and figuring out how to get across. Taking shelter in the debris hut as freezing rain falls. Show and...

Highlights from the Week

On Tuesday we made a lot of mud pies, played all of our favorite running games, climbed up into the spruce trees, and made a new obstacle...

Children of the Forest

We found a new spot to make camp. Everyone helped to start the fire. We roasted leaves on the end of our sticks and pretended they were...

Ice!

Ice provides an amazing sensory experience that we've been immersing ourselves in lately -- testing the thickness of the frozen pond,...

Highlights from the Week

Adventures in the creek, waterfalls and quicksand mud, making an obstacle course, campfires and read-alouds, building a bigger debris...

Campsite

We tried a lot of new things this week. One day we walked up the slope to a sunny spot and the kids wanted to make a "campsite" with a...

Winter Stories

The past two weeks have been full of winter stories: stories we've read together around the fire and stories we've told together as we...

Hibernation

This week we read books about hibernation and talked about how different forest animals spend the winter months as we hid in our natural...

Group Games

We had so much fun playing some new group games this past week: Bat and Moth, What Time is it Mr. Fox?, Forest Fire, and a game that...

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