Its really hard to get motivated  to get up and get out of the house. The other day  kids were a bit whiny and instead  of putting netflix on or spending  the day fighting  them I decided  to thorw them in the car and head out  on a hike.  What  happened was amazing.  

Deep in a philosophical  conversation  about unicorns  and starwars and their imagination  games.

Can see pur little town across the hills 

She brought  her wooden camera to take pictures  and document. She also brought  her imagination  phone but couldn’t  get bars to text her friends. (She cracks me up)

Did she wear good hiking  shoes, well no. Did she learn something? Yes that jellies are ok walk shoes but other shoes might  be  better  for hikes. She did wear socks so they wouldn’t  cause blisters  and brought sports wrap incase her bad knee started acting  up   (which it did)  I also packed but was really  impressed  she had thought  about  on her own. 

Looking for birds and coming  up  with 100 questions  about flight and identification  and if we could do some research. 

Sketching  the moss and licen and many wondering  observations  

I realized I suck at being  in pictures  this is an attempt  at making  sure I document  myself in too. Ordered s tripod for our phones to work on getting  better photos  of the three of  us. 

The veiw from the top of the butte looking  out over rolling  hills and sparking  conversation  about  glaciers.

Just sitting  observing  drawing   thinking  

Once we got out of the house and into nature the grumpy kids turned calm and happy  there was only a little  whining  about 3.5 miles in about  the last bit of the hike.  The point i didn’t  lesson plan, heck i barely planned we just  went and learning  happened  they read the guide  discused what  they had read, knew, learned, they did math calculating how many miles we could hike in a year. They talked  about  science. 

Not everything  has to have a lesson plan and prep work and guidance  from you sometimes   just getting  out is enough.