into the woods

Today we met up with a home school group and headed into the woods for a little exploring.
All the kids were given nets and were able to wade through the stream to see what they could catch.


Not until we started looking in the woods, under logs did we make some discoveries.

Landon found a woodland snail.
William found some salamanders.
We came home later in the day and made our first entries into our new nature notebooks.
And with the help of this new book we were able to identify the salamanders.


It was a great way to start our week.

We went for a hike after the class- just the three of us.
I stopped and told them how this moment was mine.
Just us holding hands hiking- it couldn't get any better than this.