kiddo antics and moments of nature love

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friday and its the end of the week!

this was water week and we ended our closing circle with another poem circle.
dirt is brown and smells salty
lobsters are good and yummy
anyway, butter is really smooth and gross
rivers dont gurgle but oceans dont either
creative juices?

i am also working on embracing playing games and finding educational moments in them as opposed to trying to get kids to do explicitly lesson type activities because they dont respond great...yesterday a camper straight up told me "i give this game (activity) two thumbs way down," which was an opportunity for us to talk about how to give constructive feedback. oof.

yesterday we made potting soil! i think that was a good tactile activity although the older girls didn't want to get their hands dirty. i tried to tie it into the water theme by talking about things that contribute to soil moisture, ie the coconut coir we use that holds 10x its weight in water, and compost that contributes soil organic matter! i am a big soil nerd so hoping that we can do more with this during earth week...we'll see how it goes

today was a great day at the tidepools! i think we found an orange nudibranch, which the kids were very excited about

harvest chore continues to be quite lovely, i've added beets, lettuce, and mustard greens to the fridge. morning runs are becoming routine and the trail to leave/return to slide ranch is definitely starting to feel like a familiar friend, much like ganges or cutting.

what's the most water intensive crop in california? its rice

i have been keeping a good bedtime and getting lots of sleep so i feel good about that. bed is a comfort and a joy and night-time pee breaks are beautiful and starlit

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