Of course the first thing we did today was check on the amount of water in the puddles and we found that not only was the big puddle dried up, but the little puddle was as well!! Where did all that water go!?! This was very mysterious to the boys and they talked about it for a long time. Did the water go into the ground? Did a lot of animals come and drink it all at night? Did the sun drink the water up? So many possibilities!!
After we talked out all of the water possibilities, we went right into breaking "ladder branches" off the trees with our stick swords. What could we do with all of these broken branches? Make stick boats of course! Miss Jenny spent the rest of her time helping the boys rope together some boats, which we tested to see how much weight they could hold before they would sink. They were strong enough to hold Miss Jenny's hiking boots, but that was about their weight limit! What a fun experiment on day when it was too cold to get wet . . . at least not too wet.
