Today we welcomed\nback the research team after a long break for the holidays. A lot had changed\nwhile they were gone, and we were all feeling very excited to jump back in and\nstart up our investigations again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While they were gone\nwe still re-visited some of the ideas that we were exploring with charcoal and\npaper during our morning meetings, and we still went to the forest as often as\nwe could, but there’s something energizing about their presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On our first trip\nback to the forest with Carrie, we went to a part of the forest some of us had\nnever visited before. Immediately I noticed connections being made and questions\nbeginning to form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What became a large\nfocus of our investigation was animal tracks \u2013 we came across a large tree that\nhad fallen over and we noticed there were tracks all along it in the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We speculated: Who was there, and when? We considered the human and\nnonhuman beings that share this space with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As our investigation continued,\nthe children began to mimic and act out what they thought the animals had done\nalong the tree and around the area. They started scurrying along on their hands\nand knees and jumping to and from trees along the forest floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I watched them\nexpress their ideas and questions though their actions, I began to consider the\nmarks we leave and how that might impact the other living things that call the\nforest their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we welcomed back the research team after a long break for the holidays. A lot had changed while they were gone, and we were all feeling very excited to jump back in and start up our investigations again. While they were gone we still re-visited some of the ideas that we were exploring with charcoal and paper during our morning meetings, and we still went to the forest as often as we could, but there’s something energizing about their presence. On our first trip back to the forest with Carrie, we went to a part of the forest some of us had never visited before. Immediately I noticed connections being made and questions beginning to form. What became a large focus of our investigation was animal tracks \u2013 we came across a large tree that had fallen over and we noticed there were tracks all along it in the snow. We speculated: Who was there, and when? We considered the human and nonhuman beings that share this space with us. As our investigation continued, the children began to mimic and act out what they thought the animals had done along the tree and around the area. They started scurrying along on their hands and knees and jumping to and from trees along the forest floor. As I watched them express their ideas and questions though their actions, I began to consider the marks we leave and how that might impact the other living things that call the forest their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,13],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fooding-and-foraging","tag-multispecies","tag-paying-attention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessingruinsofprogress.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}