Looking for Spring

Spring officially arrived one week ago on Friday, March 20. Today, we became nature detectives, trying to find as much evidence as we could to prove that spring has indeed sprung in Harrington! Take a look at some of the spring things we found on our nature walk today.

Evidence that the birds are migrating back to this area.

The Red-winged Blackbirds have started gathering materials for their nests in the cattails.

There is no snow anywhere in Harrington but there sure is a lot of autumn to clean up!

Insects are becoming more active again and even joined us for lunch and library today in the hall.

The sun was shining and provided us with enough warmth to resume knitting whittling projects.

There was a lot of green everywhere.

We listened to a symphony of birds in Cedar Hideaway.

We were even lucky enough to find a worm in the shape of the first letter of 'Spring'!

The only thing we couldn't find on our signs of spring walk was rain... and we were happy about that!

We learned that many creatures like birds, spiders, frogs, and ladybugs lay their eggs in spring because of the warmer weather and better sources of food but we didn't have any luck finding any real eggs today. However, we did have a lot of fun with our own plastic egg challenges and art project.

This game was called 'Spin Cycle' and the goal was to see whose egg spun the longest.

How did your egg do and who won the final "Spin Off'?

This was the 'Egg and Spoon' relay. See if you can explain the game to someone at home and then give it a try. Be sure to use plastic eggs or if you're brave (and like egg salad sandwiches), you could always try using hard-boiled eggs!

What egg-laying creature did you make? Did you run into any problems and if you did, how did you solve them?

Now that you’ve earned your ‘Spring Nature Detective’ badge, you will be ready to see discover how much spring has sprung where you live. Don’t forget to check for new signs of spring on your way to Nature School the next time we meet - Friday, April 3rd. Hope you have a happy Easter!