Students will be traveling to the Natural Resource Center (NRC) this week to explore, discover, and write. Our first trip will focus on creating a field journal. When Lewis and Clark headed across the country for the Pacific Ocean their journals were not only filled with text but also images of various plants and animals. We will be taking two trips a month minimum to explore our local watershed and investigate its impact on our history. On these trips it is important that students record their observations which is why we are creating field journals.
Our second trip will focus on poetry. We will read Ode to Fish by Ellen Bass, The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein, and The Wind by Dee Mcdonald. Students will then have the opportunity to go off and create their own poems inspired by the plants, trees, and animals which they find at the NRC. The goal for this activity is to begin recognizing another way to experience and explain or part in the world.
Our second trip will focus on poetry. We will read Ode to Fish by Ellen Bass, The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein, and The Wind by Dee Mcdonald. Students will then have the opportunity to go off and create their own poems inspired by the plants, trees, and animals which they find at the NRC. The goal for this activity is to begin recognizing another way to experience and explain or part in the world.