The weather this week as reminded Nature Preschool how important rain is to transform the spring forest! There is so much green to be seen! Spice bush leaves are speckled with raindrops as they limit our sight through the emerging brush. With rain, comes mud and worms, two of Nature Preschool’s favorite things! This week the children naturally gravitated towards mud painting, cooking in the mud kitchen and worm collecting. Children scurried about with fistfuls of worms! Don’t worry, we know how to handle worms with gentle hands! We observed how they wiggle and the trails they leave behind in the mud! We dug stubborn worms from tunnels in the ground and talked about how they help increase the amount of air and water in soil and break down leaves and grasses!
Check out all the wild, wormy fun we had in our picture galleries below.
Outdoor Exploration
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- The Flying Squirrles in the rain.
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- Miss Meghan and some coyote and chipmunk friends gather round a garden discovery!
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- What did he find?
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- Digging in the mud!
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- She found a winter tulip poplar branch! Look at all those “fairy swords!”
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- Howling Coyote!
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- Spying on the snake!
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- Toad and Worm
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- Proudly showing off her worm.
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- “My caterpillar make a T!”
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- Our animal care specialist checks on a snake!
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- Running past the tractor!
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- Making Mudballs
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- A bear digs in the mud.
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- Worm!
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- The Bears go for a hike!
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- Take a break on tarp!
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- Tiny Toad
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- Smile
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- Bones!
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- Observing A Worm
In The Classroom
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- Mud Painting
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- We set out squeeze tubes of paint, a bowl of mud, small bowls for mixing and pitcher of water! They came up with the rest!
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- Building A Castle
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- More Mud Paint!
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- Painting with Worms (Cooked Spaghetti)
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- For Mother’s Day, some teachers invited their mothers in to meet the children. What a fun Show and Tell!
