It was a lovely day to take a hike through the woods and up the ridge (ahem…only part of the way, though, since Levi was on my hip). On the way up, we added a few animal bones to our bone collection at Fort Bones.
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| No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post. |
After lunch (and a change of clothes), we went back to the creek to look for “chalkboard rocks” (slate). As we kept our eyes open for fossils, arrowheads, and other great discoveries, we also searched for state- and letter-shaped rocks for an ongoing project we’ve been working on as part of our rock collection.
And we tried to figure out which rocks in our collection looked like states. We’ve been collecting these for some time now. This is the first time we’ve sorted through and labeled them.
Then we all worked together to spell out the boys’ names using our rocks.
Nature Connections is a collaborative link collection posted at the end of each month on Living and Learning. Its purpose is to showcase photos of children enjoying nature to inspire all of us to get outdoors more.
