Wildlife encounters of the tame kind! Tracker Dan Gardoqui took us on an adventure in the Barrington woods. In looking for actual tracks, scat, homes, and feeding signs, we wound through the bushes, being careful not to step on the nestling and to return all creatures we found to the place where we encountered them. Details about the ecosystem that I had not even previously imagined were divulged. Rodents had been gnawing on a deer skull in lieu of our calcium supplements. Snails and slugs leave almost decorative trails on tree trunks as the eat their way around. Tree frogs can change colour a little bit to match their surroundings. Who knew? Dan and some other students did. We have so much to offer one another. I loved hearing Dawn talk about the parasite on the oak leaves and Chelsea sharing her experiences from Georgia.
Randy Warren is a font of information regarding the Barrington area. He had perspectives completely new to me about the area's ecological, political, and social history. (The man knows everyone around here!) As one who has worked as an organic farmer with a background in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) I think it is incredibly valuable to hear the perspective of a conventional farmer. Although I thought it was funny when he described how he lived in the '40s (minimal electricity and running water, the walk out to the road, wood stoves, etc) because that is how I live now in Jaffrey with my partner's family and I find it truly fulfilling. But as educators we all know that everyone learns, teaches, and does in different ways.
The dynamic individuals leading this group-from our three co-teachers to the specialists-have provided a continuous, but not too rushed, stream of knowledge...which is why I think I'm feeling a little brain dead. ;)
Also, thank you Meg for an awesome reading facilitation today! Nicely done.
Randy Warren is a font of information regarding the Barrington area. He had perspectives completely new to me about the area's ecological, political, and social history. (The man knows everyone around here!) As one who has worked as an organic farmer with a background in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) I think it is incredibly valuable to hear the perspective of a conventional farmer. Although I thought it was funny when he described how he lived in the '40s (minimal electricity and running water, the walk out to the road, wood stoves, etc) because that is how I live now in Jaffrey with my partner's family and I find it truly fulfilling. But as educators we all know that everyone learns, teaches, and does in different ways.
The dynamic individuals leading this group-from our three co-teachers to the specialists-have provided a continuous, but not too rushed, stream of knowledge...which is why I think I'm feeling a little brain dead. ;)
Also, thank you Meg for an awesome reading facilitation today! Nicely done.
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"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." by Rabindranath Tagore~
Heaven is on Earth.
God is in relating.
Put your forehead to a tree.
God is in relating.
Put your forehead to a tree.
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