Pine River Nature Center

This field trip I was looking forward to all year - my two close friends, Sarah and Carrie, run this beautiful log center in the middle of the woods along the Pine River. Kayla and I had visited recently for the bat program and she had been asking to go back.

In no one's WILDEST dreams could we have imagined SNOW on April 15 the night before the field trip! I think snow on April 15 is a record! The boots and snow pants were packed away, so we hauled them BACK out because this day-long field trip included two long hikes through the woods.

Bundle up, it's cold outside!

It kills me to see them standing in this snow! The snow HAD all melted!

 Don't their field trip shirts look so cute? Katie requires the kids to wear them on a field trip - it helps identify them individually and as a group. Those are the same t-shirts I spent HOURS making with the students back at the beginning of the year. Katie added the names on the front and "Michigamme" on the back. They turned out so cute!

The theme of the field trip was frogs - they learned about their life cycle, how to identify boy and girl frogs and learned different species and their calls. They explored an outdoor pond and wrote about it in their nature journal. 

Katie does such a great job organizing field trips and experiences for her students. She's such a great teacher. The kids had fun; the trip was a success (despite the unexpected snow)!