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Wee Walk - FAS M/W/F AM & PM Classes

The sun gods were watching over us on Wednesday April 18th as we ventured out of our classroom to embark on our Wee Walk. 

To make our walk more interesting we decided to do a little scavenger hunt along the way.  Our mission was to find a blue car, a tree with pink or red flowers or leaves, a grey squirrel, a baby stroller and some pine cones. 

We were successful in finding all of the items except for the grey squirrel.  We did however spot a black squirrel so I’m going to call it a win!  The children were all so excited to explore a different environment and participate in the scavenger hunt. 

However, I believe that the highlight of the walk was stumbling over this tree with a face on it.  Some children were so perplexed as to how the tree had a face and others just giggled and thought that it was the neatest thing. 

Everyone was such troopers that we finished before expected, so to burn off the rest of our energy we decided to play a game of tag in the soccer field.  All in all I’d say it was a very successful Wee Walk.




Until next time
Jordan

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