Nature Club: February 22,23,24

This week's Nature Club was a look at sea creatures. I brought in my collection that included the following: corals, sea urchins, sand dollars, a sponge, starfish and many interesting and beautiful shells. We talked about what the animals did underwater and how they looked when they were alive. The preschoolers were extremely interested and many had shells of their own at home. Some of the kids had been or were going to Underwater World at the Mall of America and knew about the sea creatures because of that.
It was a fun class. Next week I'm going to bring some video of sea life underwater so they can see what coral and sponges really look like in the ocean. They will also get to see Ms. Pat scuba diving!

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Nature Club-Feb. 8,9,10

Our theme for this week's Nature Club was School of Rock. I brought a collection of various pretty and interesting rocks for the boys and girls to examine. In addition, they got to take river rocks and build towers, as well as take shiny white rocks to make patterns- ones they followed or they could make their own.
The preschoolers learned that rocks are created in several different ways: from heat or pressure deep in the earth, or from sand, mud or plant/animal material being laid down by lakes or seas and then, over millions of years, hardening into rock.

Critter Watch

I've been watching two coyotes hanging around the marsh just outside our horse pasture fence. In spite of the deep snow, they've been there off and on most of the day. I hope it's the two that raised a litter of pups not far from that spot three years ago. I love having them around as long as they stay away from my yard!