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Celebration

We've been really enjoying the forest in full foliage! We celebrated the end of the school year by making homemade ice cream in jars. ...

Red Fox

We've seen a lot of wildlife the past week, including a red fox and her four kits. They’ve been living in the old cabin next door and...

Experiments, Violets, Tree Planting, May Pole

For our first air pressure experiment we lit two candles in a hard boiled egg and covered them with a flask and observed what happened....

Spring Ephemerals

We've been noticing the wildflowers popping up, and we've been going on wildflower walks through the forest. These flowers are known as...

"Let's . . . "

"Let's make a big map of Fairywood" "Let's make tree spirits with this clay" "Let's build a village" "Let's go on a waterfall hike"...

Salamanders

We've been finding lots of salamanders in the creek. Noticing that they like to be under rocks, the kids have been inspired to build...

Maple Sugaring

Tasting the maple tree sap. And boiling it into syrup to put on pancakes and roasted pineapple rings! Finding coyote tracks in the mud....

Snow

We had a great week digging snow tunnels and caves, sledding, ice mining, rolling giant snowballs, snow sculpting, and more!

Ice Ornaments and Snowflake Tortillas

We had fun making ice ornaments and "ice muffins" this week by freezing nature treasures like pine cones and rosehips in muffin tins...

Frozen

Our study of ice continues... We made bird feeders by melting coconut oil by the fire and then mixing in some sunflower seeds and a...

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