While You Are Home...

During these extraordinary times while we are all struggling to find our footing, it is comforting to imagine families coming together on social media and finding ways to stay connected. As we tune-in online for information and education we hope you will visit this site and share the posts and videos with one another. We will be adding more as the weeks go by, including visits to the forest and shore to see what changes are happening in our absence. We will record these on video and in pictures so you and your children can see up close how nature continues to weave its magic.

In this post you will find links to videos made over the past few years. Watch them together and talk about what you see. Ponder the questions that arise. There are many mysteries here, some of which we have shared with the children in the classrooms. We offer no answers, but we have faith that the important thing is knowing the right questions.

Enjoy!

From Forest School:

Forest Inspiration - Images of the forest that inspire!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVn30EmUvwWN31yOS-fl4m6mryqCF67t/view?usp=sharing

Forest Days (2018-19)- This video has been shown at conferences and professional development sessions.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hox26fnphxgFQIuV3RCkzHSApaEsrbBe/view?usp=sharing

Rotting Log - What lives inside this log?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v5ZqdvB6V0dKi3yZTJRMs9V9hHozKgXY/view?usp=sharing

Worm Family - Fascinating!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IVAq0cj2OLBcczMr2M_S8llQCbYLVdNK/view?usp=sharing

Worm Discovery! - Very exciting!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D3wCWBM1aJTvS7sJrKYnYYjQz5_6ovth/view?usp=sharing

Moving Logs - Working together.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AF09N4CYagIILGh5eYHYp-ecTHjGemC_/view?usp=sharing

How Do Binoculars Work? - Testing a new tool.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7nwsiWRnodTvtQ7EnxdfexXHO3P5yN_/view?usp=sharing

From Shore School:

Shore School - An 8-minute video showing Shore School activities.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8LA-_8J8784W_5FbOqVqCo1XLVrZyd2/view?usp=sharing

Winter at the Shore - Marine Park Salt Marsh during last year's cold snap.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uP0tbhES6_NPT2QdHkAn3TlQE6IiMzIK/view?usp=sharing

Swan at Marine Park - One of the park's permanent residents.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEvvVtcsjr5nNOLfUanvgduZK_jCLCEf/view?usp=sharing

Building a Dam (Salt Marsh, 2018) 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ikYtuKXn3A9m3UwieAkgVQJQzkO-xac/view?usp=sharing

Circles in the Water on a Sunny Day - What made them? (It was not raining.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-tNmtiDxmDM9T4Wt2ygGmTm3l3-BdKsu/view?usp=sharing

Geyser! - First, see if you can spot the geyser. What is causing it?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RifkQRfL6U2kKxisepSaYV1TM1uPiXzs/view?usp=sharing

Archeologists Find Mysterious Object - Is it a dinosaur bone?!?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IBJgh7XBGENpQs6XVWRkWIv7i1qI1iFH/view?usp=sharing

Strange Pattern in the Sand (Coney Island, 2018) - What made it?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jiFhEDx-sk2KZrhiQU0dF9pl-s_qygG1/view?usp=sharing

Horseshoe Crab at Marine Park (2018) - The joy of discovery!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fn9T08-qsg71CyiBALR9XWEIV8UnkZ_X/view?usp=sharing