"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables We started this session by reading The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer. We loved how the boy in this story created a whole forest in his bedroom so that he could care for the salamander that he found. He even took off the ceiling so that insects and birds could fly in and out! We all agreed that we'd love to have a bedroom like that. Then we each went to find a quiet spot to listen, look, write, draw, or just think. We gathered together and looked up at the trees. Do you remember what they looked like in this same spot 2 weeks ago? Here's what it looked like this week: We looked at a book with no words called Looking Down by Steve Jenkins. The book starts with a picture of the whole world, and each picture gets zoomed in more and more until on the last page, you're looking at a tiny ladybug. We got to work making stick frames to frame a little piece of nature. We experimented with various ways of tying knots to secure the four sticks together. Each person or group found a spot where they wanted to place their frame to zoom in on nature. They used their journals to document everything that they could see within that frame: colours, creatures, textures, plants. Some started to build or create other mini-structures and designs within the nature frame. Time to explore! Some critters we encountered: Exploring time included some drawing and writing, including this poem that was shared at our closing circle time:
I see a salamander here and there there under logs and everywhere sometimes in the pond and sometimes in the leaves You might get tricked with a newt! They love to eat insects and love to climb I see a salamander here and there ~ E.W. Some others spent some time naming and mapping parts of the marshy area (which they named The Liberty of Swamp Marsh, or The Never-Ending Swamp):
Thanks, Wild Turkeys, for another great time together! For further investigation, here are some interesting posts and videos about salamanders: National Geographic video National Geographic webpage about spotted salamanders San Diego Zoo page about salamanders and newts
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