Celebrating Snow - March family program

For March's Family Program, the children celebrated the snow and the animals that live over and under it. We began by sharing our names and some things we'd been noticing in nature, such as the lengthening of the days, chickadees changing from winter to spring songs, melting snow, bumpy roads, and leaves still hanging on the beech trees. We then explored various animals and their movements in the snow. We used magnifying glasses to identify some tracks on top of the snow (fox perhaps?), slid on our bellies like otters, and dug tunnels and burrows in the snow banks. We then entered our burrows and sat quietly, listening as the beech leaves rustled and the woodpeckers pecked. We read the book Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner during snack, before joining the adults in the Temple for a breath meditation and closing.