Exploring Nature's Footprints

Once a month, the big kids go to #charlielliottwildlifecenter for homeschool day with some of their school friends. This last time, they focused on bird sounds, animal dropping, and footprints among other things. My favorite part? The thirty minute narration the whole way home as they reiterate everything they did, cementing it in their heads even more. And proving to me that they not only paid attention but learned stuff that is exciting to them. And when the next day’s nature adventure includes mud and animal prints... they bring it all out again. “Hey! I know how we know if they’re raccoon prints! Look for oyster shells. They wash their food in this water!”