Field Trip

On Friday we went on a great field trip!  One of the other mom's in our group planned a trip to the Prairie Fork Conservation.  Her sister works there and planned some fun activities for the kids.  First, they pretended to be birds looking for worms to eat (rotini).  They discussed which color rotini were easiest and hardest to find.  We did it in two different areas to see that with different backgrounds different colors were easier and harder to find--camouflage!  

Then, we went on a safari in search of animal life.  We found animals as well as found traces of animals.  Michael took great notes on our paper while Joshua took charge of the magnifying glass to see what he could find.

We took the muddy trail for our exploration and I was surprised by how clean we stayed.  The joy of the mud, though, was that you could see animal tracks much more easily.  We saw some doe tracks and even learned the difference between doe and buck tracks.    I was most impressed.   

Then, after lunch we headed down to the pond with nets to go 'fishing.'  It is still early in the season but we still found some fish and plenty of moss!   Michael even found a really cool bug . . . see if you can determine what it is? 

We had great helpers working with the kids to help them figure out what they caught!

Here are several snails the boys were very excited to find.  We decided to leave them in their habitat instead of taking them home!  We figured they would be happiest there.

Overall it was a great day with lots of fun with our friends and each other as we explored the great outdoors!