Climbing and jumping in leaves

Climbing and jumping in leaves

Many days this fall we have spent time on the climbing hill at the end of the day. It is always a favorite activity for the preschoolers. They work hard learning about balance and looking for good handholds.

One day while collecting leaves for our shelter we took turns jumping in the leaves.

A big dying tree was cut down in the field where we gather in the morning. Many days we have gathered it’s branches for firewood. One day we watched the “big” homeschool kids cut some of the tree trunk, then helped them bop a wedge with a big mallet to split it.

Pumpkin and Dress Up Fun

Pumpkin and Dress Up Fun

We had a lot of fun the week of Halloween. We started the week dressing up and celebrating. We took the seeds out of two large pumpkins to save for roasting later. We then broke up the flesh and nailed it to boards to make feeders for our animal friends.
I had some great help cleaning up the pumkin goo afterwards.

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Ithaca Forest Preschool is a nature immersion program for children ages 3-5. Our program is run in cooperation with Primitive Pursuits, a project of Cornell Cooperative Extension.