{"id":599777,"date":"2008-10-03T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/10\/03\/rattlesnake-lake-nature-scavenger-hunt\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T05:45:00","slug":"rattlesnake-lake-nature-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/10\/03\/rattlesnake-lake-nature-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Lake Nature Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday afternoon, I picked up Linda&#8217;s boys (C1 and C2) and drove up to Rattlesnake Lake.&nbsp; I made little Nature Journals for each boy and gave them a plastic bag (for collecting things) and a pencil.&nbsp; On each page was an item they were to look for and draw.&nbsp; (This is a lesson in our Artistic Pursuits curriculum).&nbsp; Some of the items were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>water <\/li>\n<li>fish (C1 drew a fisherman!) <\/li>\n<li>clouds <\/li>\n<li>interesting leaves <\/li>\n<li>an insect <\/li>\n<li>a neat rock <\/li>\n<li>a bird <\/li>\n<li>a stick or twig <\/li>\n<li>an animal <\/li>\n<li>a wildflower <\/li>\n<li>something soft <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the boys drawing the lake (imagine a dark circle&#8230;)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3142\/2910463887_0488602fb8.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThrowing rocks&nbsp; is mandatory!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3240\/2911310466_4d55c7339d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n&#8216;A&#8217; came to me and said, &quot;mom, I am a scale and I am weighing these two rocks.&nbsp; Which one do you think is heavier?&nbsp; He then lowered his arm with the tiny rock to show that was heavier.&nbsp; He&#8217;s pretty funny <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/include\/fckeditor\/editor\/images\/smiley\/msn\/teeth_smile.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3151\/2911310748_d649724a17.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nPlaying on a big rock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3288\/2911310948_86eb3929d0.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nAnother piece of God&#8217;s jungle gym&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2346\/2911311298_cd3090b100.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe boys really tried to climb this rock.&nbsp; Maybe next year&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3112\/2911311600_3dfc90b475.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nAfter playing around the lake, we hiked up the Rattlsnake Ledge trail for a while.&nbsp; My camera ran out of batteries and I was unable to get shots in the woods, but we enjoyed the hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday afternoon, I picked up Linda&#8217;s boys (C1 and C2) and drove up to Rattlesnake Lake.&nbsp; I made little Nature Journals for each boy and gave them a plastic bag (for collecting things) and a pencil.&nbsp; On each page was an item they were to look for and draw.&nbsp; (This is a lesson in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}