Today we went to the Cradle of Forestry for the Woodsy Owl’s Club. The theme was “poking around the pond”. If you know me you know that there is nothing in life that makes me happier than being knee deep in muck looking for bugs! There were about 25 kids plus their adults at the meeting today. We all had to learn about Smokey the Bear and Woodsy the Owl and their mottos. We learned all about the wetlands and what we could expect to find around the pond. We then took a short hike down to a pond. We listened to all the directions and then got our nets.
Mommy helped me scoop a bunch of muck out of the pond. The teacher said I scooped too much but I found a lot of bugs including a dragonfly nymph, 3 baby salamanders, a sack of eggs and a few other things.
Getting more muck.
Some of the bugs and things that all the kids caught. My eggs are on the spoon. The teacher thought they may be salamander eggs but I told her they were too big and were probably frog eggs.
You could not pry me from this bucket unless you bribed me with more bugs!!
Grandma Jo helped me put some bugs into the viewer.
This was sooooo cool!
I enjoyed showing all the other kids the buts I put in the viewer.
Amazing that with this many people NO ONE fell in the lake and ALL the kids were so amazingly well behaved!
After the pond adventure we went back to the classroom to talk about where the different animals were living in the pond.
We each got a picture to put on the pond. I got a “Water Skimmer” and correctly placed it on the top of the pond.
They had a craft at the end (make a turtle from a paper bowl) but I had already done that craft at home with Mommy before so I wanted to move along. We loaded up the car and drove down the road to the fish hatchery. I love the Trout Farm! They have these long rows of trout with running water. for $.25 you can get a handful of oily stinky food to feed the fish.
I had a blast feeding them. I figured out that if you go to a big group near the edge and drop in the food that the fish will get you soaking wet! 🙂
When we came home and Emmerson went down for a nap Mommy gave me a new toy she had been saving for me. It is called Bizarre Builder “In-Sections” . It is like Mr. Potato head but all the pieces are bug parts and you can chose to follow the directions or free build you own bugs.
My first of MANY creations!
My next of a zillion creations.
