It's been awhile since my last blog post. Over the past month I've been crazy busy teaching lessons and working on school projects. This week is our final week in schools. In one of our schools we have been working on a mural and will be finishing that this week. In our 3rd grade classes we are planning a field day on April 17th. The preparation for this day has gone beyond my expectations. We have been putting in overtime in our classes to get them ready.
Aside from planning lessons and teaching, I have been working on preparations for Earth Day, which was yesterday. Our Earth Day Festival was at the Audubon center. We were lucky to have sunny warm weather, which brought out a large crowd. We volunteered at various stations throughout the day. I helped visitors build birdhouses and paint a mural on a large poster. Other stations included live animals, disc golf, an SCA table, animal pelts and skulls, a nature walk and many more. We invited all our students and teachers as well and were excited to see many of them.
Our weather has been very interesting over the past month. While there has been a warming trend we have also had cold snaps. On Wednesday we had nearly three inches of snow and today was 60 and sunny. We walked to one of our ponds today and sat in the sand for a few hours to enjoy the warmth. It finally feels like Spring and while I'm going to miss the snow I'm excited to see everything turning green.
Tomorrow is our teacher appreciation dinner and then we go into our final teaching week. Next week begins training for field season. I'm amazed that I have been at Bear Brook for over three months now and I can see how October will arrive before I know it.
