EXXXXXXXXTRRRRRRREMEEEEEEEEEE Nature Journaling

On Thursday, October 27 at around 1:00, Mr. Munden's homeroom went outside to nature journal! It was very snowy outside with 6 inches of snow with some bare patches of grass showing. It just snowed the night before, but it melted that day because the sun came out and it was like 1,000 degrees!

We observed some leaves on the ground and some wet patches of grass. Some parts were really muddy because of all the melted snow. The trees were also really bare - it looked like they might be dying?

We also observed a bunch of footsteps in the snow. Our class made those footsteps in our stomping grounds - everybody heading to their zones and people fooling around :)

We inferred that a lot of the branches fell of in the snow storm from the night before. It was really wet, heavy snow that must have weighed a lot when it fell on the branches. The tree branches looked very flimsy with all of the snow on them. In zone 7, there were a lot of broken branches lying on the ground.

There were no living organisms in sight. We think that the birds would have flown away, and some of the other animals may have gone into hibernation. But we did see a squirrel outside, so maybe they don't hibernate (or haven't gone into hibernation yet).