Owls 2012-2013: Autumn Groves and Crafting Cozy Coves

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Autumn Groves and Crafting Cozy Coves

With the excitement of building the cozy box for our room still fresh, we took a trip to see our friend April, who is the Technical Director of the AFS theater and the queen of all things building related to help us get started. She worked on laying out a plan and even helped us cut our wood down to exact measurements. After we headed back to our classroom, we began to sand the wood to make the pieces safe.

Problem Solving: Using the bench to help reach the tops of the tall wood pieces.

And since there seems to be building happening all around us, we were prohibited from playing on our usual playground today. We capitalized on the opportunity by celebrating the beautiful autumn day at the grove, where we admired the colors, played in leaves, and climbing trees!