LOTS of Nature Going on Here~

The pool skimmer is one of the best nature catchers.

EK cleans it each morning, and today she found a sweet little salamander.

We named it Sally and took the morning to learn about them~

 Our art stories were information about salamanders~

THEN when we went to the pool for a swim, Evie opened the skimmer and a little green grass snake jumped out.
Everyone was afraid at first but I assured them this was a very pleasant snake
and they were allowed to hold it~

 They named him Pickle and we kept him all day~

 Once again it was nature books galore as EK taught us all there was to know~

 Dad came home to their excitement but he was too thrilled~

 Later in the week we made a list of nature items in The Salamander room and went off to find it all~

 There were lots of beautiful things found~

 But the best was all the tadpoles swimming around in the lake~

 We brought a container back to our house and we are watching the life cycle~

On Friday we watched Little Bear, backed cookies, and decorated with little green snakes~

LOTS of Nature and we're pretty happy about it!!!