Spotlight on Campanelli

Our field trip to the Spring Valley
Nature Center

By the students in room 114

Have you ever been to the Spring Valley Nature Center?  Well, the first and second grade students in Mrs. Nowak’s class went there on a field trip on Monday January 9^th.

First, we played the deer game all together as a group.  6 students were picked to be deer, while everyone else in the group stood across from them.  With our backs turned away from each other, everyone would make a sign with our hands that represented shelter, water or food.  Then, the 6 students who were picked to be deer would run to find a matching partner.  Once the deer found a person with the matching sign, both people would become deer.  We played this game to help us learn what living things need to survive.

Then, we split into groups and went on a nature hike.  We saw a gall.  A gall is a growth on a woodland plant that acts as both a food source and shelter for the insect that makes it.  During our hike we visited 3 types of habitats: the wetlands, the woodlands and the prairie.  While visiting the different habitats we saw animal fur, a rabbit skull, a beaver dam, feathers, a coyote den, animal footprints, and scat.  (We won’t tell you what that is.)

Have you ever been to the Spring Valley Nature Center?  Well, if you haven’t, you should go!