Low Tide

How great it is to study a subject that you can go out and actually explore with all your senses.  When you can bring all that you've read and learned about to light.  My favorite days in school are when we are out.  Out and about exploring places.  Here we listened to the docent, walked a silent walk through the woods, explored the tide pools, pulled poison hemlock and sketched the shoreline. 

Seaside Exploring

This warm weather has found us making frequent jaunts down to the ocean.  I had never seen snail trails this distinct.  Slowly, slowly making their way across the tidepool.  We got to jump from pool to pool exclaiming at all the creatures in each of them trying not to step on the carpets of mussels.  I've seen them a lot and am still amazed by the varieties and survival tactics the different creatures have acquired.  From the ethereal sea anenomes to the craggy jewel star we oohed and awed.  Stopping for a climb on the way home.