Picture This!

After a very active morning of tightrope walking, surfing and see-sawing, the Turtles had Morning Meeting and learned that they would be photographers today. Carol explained how to use the cameras (these are very nice digital cameras that we borrowed from the kindergarten). Then, we headed out to spend the morning in the sunshine.

We enjoyed snack out on the playground, and then had some time to run and swing and bike, before we went over to the Grove.

There, the Turtles formed teams of two - one who would have the camera, and the other who would "scout" for good pictures. After 10 minutes, the teams switched, and each team member got several turns.

It was amazing watching the kids take off with the cameras - and particularly seeing how well they worked together to find good shots. As a group, they took hundreds of photos, and tomorrow we're going to look at them with a critical eye, to think about which ones would add to a good story.

A Day In Photos

Happy Earth Day!

Today was a glorious day for Earth Day! We planted herbs, marigolds, tomatos, peas, and lettuce in our newly built raised beds.

We also had a visit from the Kindergarteners who were doing an Earth Day Parade. They sang us a song the the kindergarten teacher, Raji, wrote just for Earth Day.

Next Debbie Green read us some Earth Day books including Todd Parr's, The Earth Book.

The last book of the day, Max and Art was very useful to the Turtles because we have been talking so much about being illustrators.

Farm Living is the Life for Me!

Yesterday afternoon, the Turtles did some more preparation for our garden bed, by hauling in several loads of very smelly compost. It took a lot of muscles, and we had to plug our noses many times, but we got it all in the beds.

Today we brought in more dirt and perlite and mixed it in, and brought out our seedlings to get them use to being outside and ready for transplanting. The Turtles are very excited about how fast our seedlings are growing.

At Morning Meeting, Maggie's grandmother came to read us the book, Cordoroy Goes to the Beach, and even dressed up in her beach hat.

Julian also took his turn at the Treasure Box, and the Turtles enjoyed checking out the interesting toys he'd brought in.

Next, we headed out on an to adventure to the Lower School. We stopped at a number of our favorite places along the way, including, the Puddle Tree,

the big tree stump,

to check out a pair of geese swimming in the bog,

and to play at the big kid's playground.

When we made it to our destination, to borrow some digital cameras from the kindergarten class, we found a wonderful surprise waiting for us - 

3 day old baby chicks! All the Turtles took turns carefully holding them.

After more time on the kindergarten playground, we went to serenade our friends Nancy and Rich.

We borrowed a microphone from our friend John, to use on our digital stories, and then made our way back to our garden.