Gettin' Dirty

With Earth Day right around the corner, I've been trying to do some themed learning with our crazies.  I wanted to take the learning outside & do a little digging.  Living in the desert doesn't provide us with much opportunity to dig inn the dirt & plant trees, so I decided to bring the project a little closer to home, bought some dirt, & had a blast doing some planting & digging with pots right around our house.  I let the crazies out & they loved 

gettin' dirty!

We made a sensory box with dirt & items that they dug in for a while.

We practiced writing our letters in the dirt.

Deacon & Kennedy helped plant some planters to get it looking like spring around here.

Deacon had to get his tractor in on the action.

I made dirt desserts for an afternoon treat for their hard work.

They found a shady place & dug in... worms first of course!

It was a fun afternoon outdoors getting' dirty & throwing some dirt around, even in the desert.