Thursday at Nambe Falls

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LITTLES:  We practiced hiking single file over rocks and through the river to the lower part of the falls.  We ate and played in the falls, which was fun a very COLD (compared to the HEAT of the day!)

We played games with buddies, found beautiful driftwood and listened to a story about rocks: “Everybody Needs a Rock.”  We made up a story about the driftwood and water and rocks at Nambe Falls.  Then shared our own stories from memory.

BIGS: The Super Hikers took a trail up to a beautiful overlook view of the waterfall.  It was hot but well worth the view!  Afterwards we went down to cool off and play in the river.  We saw a giant bird’s nest in the cliff and water pouring from the rock walls.  We read, “Everybody Needs a Rock” to wrap up a great day at the Falls!

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Wednesday at Base Camp

Everyone spent the day at base camp today.  Groups of BIGS rotated through archery, mountain biking, slack line, papermaking and a water fight!  LITTLES did all the same activities except archery.  Several kids chose to make forts in the afternoon, while others made more paper and then listened to a story about how the Blackfoot tribe found the shape of their teepees.   We were all happy to cool off at the end of the day with watermelon and a run through the sprinkler!

Thanks to Jeremy for taking photos today!

Monday at the Beaver Ponds!

We started our day all together at the Children’s Museum playing games and making our Group Contract for the week. We played a name game and had a snack before we loaded up in the Adventure Vans to head to the Beaver Ponds.

At the Beaver Ponds we saw plenty of wildlife. We met an expert from the Nature Conservancy who spoke to us about the Northern Leopard Frog reintroduction program. He was there to release tadpoles as a part of the program.  We also got to meet a wandering Garter snake. We saw a bullfrog and lots of butterflies and dragonflies.

We did sit spots and observed the pond and then drew what we saw. We found wild roses and raspberries!

One group hiked around the pond to find fossils.  Everyone was VERY excited about the fossils!  Another group stayed to play games and draw lots of fossils seen by hiker group.

It was a super fun day full of lots of exploration and discovery!