Starting off October strong at Highland County Park, a great place up by Felton that has a great playground, climbing structure, and multiple creek spots. We started our day with free play at the playground, followed by a short hike to the creek spots, creek play, rock engineering and low limb tree climbing. There were some extra slippery algae covered flat rocks in a few areas entering the creek, so some students and I engineered a solution, taking some sand and spreading it out overtop of the most slippery parts. Getting wet is a part of creek play, so while some kids got pretty soaked, I decided to sit in the river in my jeans as well. All part of the fun!
We made our way back to the playground area and shared pumpkin bread, cutting up the loaf and counting pieces and each other ensuring everyone could have some. We talked about gratitude and thinking about all the people that went into making this bread before having some. Students started their weaving projects, a simple cardboard loom project that's great for a lightweight, portable craft that can be worked on here and there. These will come with us on our Wednesday adventures so kids have a meditative craft to work on during down times.
A link to the project: https://www.cedardellforestfarm.com/blog/2020/7/10/diy-cardboard-weaving-loom
End of day with playing soccer in the tennis courts, climbing, and swinging.
Animals spotted: crawdads, redtail hawk, crows
Plants identified: willow, Bishop pine, poison oak, thistle
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