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Wild World Session 3 Day 5

Wild World Session 3 Day 5

After obstacle course and Gratitude Circle, we played a few team building/theatre games like "Mirror" and "Who is the Leader?" Then we did a dress rehearsal of their original play "The Land of Chaos". Afterwards, we hiked to the white house and learned about light and how rainbows form through refraction and reflection. After talking about the Electromagnetic Spectrum and focusing on Visible light, we also talked about how a rainbow occurs and how it is actually a circle not

Wild World Session 3 Day 4

Wild World Session 3 Day 4

After archery, obstacle course and Gratitude Circle, explorers finished writing their original play to be performed tomorrow for family and friends. Then we hiked to the white house for a lesson on plant adaptations. We talked about and looked at examples of how plants have adapted to survive in their environment. For example, many plants in the Tundra have acquired adaptations to help them stay warm like growing low to the ground and having fuzzy stems. After covering each

Wild World Session 3 Day 3

Wild World Session 3 Day 3

After obstacle course and Gratitude Circle, we went to do some more organic gardening with Ms. Melissa. First the kids chose a crop to harvest (tomatoes, blueberries, corn, or cucumbers). Then we had a mini brunch feast on all the freshly harvested crops plus some yellow squash Melissa cooked that morning. After enjoying this fresh snack, we harvested some yellow squash and corn. The corn husks and a few stalks will get fed to the chickens and some goats down the street! Then

Wild World Session 3 Day 2

Wild World Session 3 Day 2

After archery and running the obstacle course, we did Gratitude Circle. Then we wrote a couple scenes for our play and hiked up to the white house and had snack while learning about local animals. We talked about common wild animals and their tracks that can be seen throughout Northern Georgia. Some included wild turkey, racoon, white-tailed deer,grey squirrel, red fox, worm snake, king snake, copperhead, coral snake, water snake. We focused on snakes a lot because for our ar

Wild World Session 3 Day 1

Wild World Session 3 Day 1

After playing "Meet My Friend" to meet and learn about each other, I showed them the obstacle course and let each one have a go on it. Then we did some Organic Gardening with Ms. Melissa. We planted squash and protected them from the chickens. We also planted pumpkin seeds and as we found worms we fed them to the chickens! Afterwards, we hiked to the white house. Then we ate snack and created art inspired by microscopic images. We looked at various microscopic images on the

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 5

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 5

After Gratitude Circle, we went to GT to see what new clues or map pieces she might have left for us. We got the last piece of the Great Map! We also got the key to the West. It didn't have any markings on it like the other keys. When we put the Great Map together it had a riddle in the middle which we had to solve to know where to go for the Beaver King's Flute. After hiking and searching we located a huge Treasure Chest with a lock on it. The Guardian Guild had to figure o

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 4

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 4

After Gratitude Circle, we went to Grandmother Tree to see if we had any more pieces of the Great Map or clues to help us get the Beaver King's Flute and defeat The Winter King. We got a note from GT telling us we helped save Beatrice Bird's life and she gave us the Southern part of the Great Map. We also got a bag from Beatrice Bird with 3 coded scrolls to help us on our quest. The Guardians broke off into 3 teams to decode the messages. The messages from Beatrice told us th

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 3

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 3

After Gratitude circle and the Obstacle course, we wrote the rest of our play and practiced. Then we went to Grandmother Tree to see if there was a piece of the Great Map or any new clues for our quest. First, we got the Northern piece of the Great Map from the Gnomes!!! They were thankful for all the chores we did for them so they gave us the Northern part of the Map that they were guarding. When we put it with the Eastern part of the map the center still didn't make sense

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 2

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 2

Today we started with a gratitude circle where we go around the circle and each say something we are grateful for. Then we chose Guardian names and learned the secret Guardian handshake. Afterwards, we went to Grandmother Tree to see if she left us a response. We got a letter from her explaining that the only way to defeat the Winter King is to play a special flute carved by the Beaver King which will wake up the Summer Spirits and lift the spell he placed on the land. She sa

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 1

Guardian Guild Session 3 Day 1

We started the day with a game called "Meet My Friend" to learn each other's name. Then we went to the wood warrior obstacle course and those who wanted to went through the course once. While we were at the course, we found a box that had a note from the Forest Elves in it. It was asking us to become members of the Guardian Guild so we could help save the forest from the Winter King's spell that was put over the land. So we embarked on our first quest (to find Grandmother Tre

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