Half of this day was spent in woods, by a stream. A fine place to spend any portion of your day, in my estimation. We hiked the Vienna Woods Trail, which leads from a neighborhood up on a hill down into the Forest of Nisene Marks. We spend a lot of time on this trail and in these woods. This past weekend we were in the same woods on a different trail on bikes. It's big and filled with wonderful sites. And lovely sounds, sites and smells.
We found some fossils. Talked about how they formed and different types of rock. (We found this neat DK Smithsonian book at the thrift store for a dollar that informed much of what we talked about). We found sediment that seemed like it was trying really hard to be a rock (pun intended). I even stepped on a clump of sediment, mistaking it for a rock and fell into the water. We kept walking, because, what's a little water? We climbed trees and rocks and tip-toed across the river over little stones placed just right to form a crossing. We both brought sketch pads and used them. There was a lot in that two and a half hours - we had a lot of fun. It was quiet and peaceful and down right delightful spending time with my son - wishing I had both of them with me, actually.
Later on this afternoon we went to Kaleidoscope with many other folks from Ocean Alternative School to spend our whopping $50.00 stipend for the semester. We've got $12.00 left. We spent it on math books, a poster for Coleman's wall and a Captain Underpants book (which Coleman read in about 30 minutes flat). I was so happy there were teachers there to help make choices - there are a lot of books on math for fourth graders.
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