Its really hard to get motivated to get up and get out of the house. The other day kids were a bit whiny and instead of putting netflix on or spending the day fighting them I decided to thorw them in the car and head out on a hike. What happened was amazing.
Deep in a philosophical conversation about unicorns and starwars and their imagination games.
Can see pur little town across the hills
She brought her wooden camera to take pictures and document. She also brought her imagination phone but couldn't get bars to text her friends. (She cracks me up)
Did she wear good hiking shoes, well no. Did she learn something? Yes that jellies are ok walk shoes but other shoes might be better for hikes. She did wear socks so they wouldn't cause blisters and brought sports wrap incase her bad knee started acting up (which it did) I also packed but was really impressed she had thought about on her own.
Looking for birds and coming up with 100 questions about flight and identification and if we could do some research.
Sketching the moss and licen and many wondering observations
I realized I suck at being in pictures this is an attempt at making sure I document myself in too. Ordered s tripod for our phones to work on getting better photos of the three of us.
The veiw from the top of the butte looking out over rolling hills and sparking conversation about glaciers.
Just sitting observing drawing thinking
Once we got out of the house and into nature the grumpy kids turned calm and happy there was only a little whining about 3.5 miles in about the last bit of the hike. The point i didn't lesson plan, heck i barely planned we just went and learning happened they read the guide discused what they had read, knew, learned, they did math calculating how many miles we could hike in a year. They talked about science.
Not everything has to have a lesson plan and prep work and guidance from you sometimes just getting out is enough.
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