Kindergarten Blue Trail and deer tracks in the snow

After 7.5 inches of snow, the trees and trail were so pretty today, on Woods Wednesday. 

The pine boughs are heavily laden with snow which makes the trail even more picturesque.

The kids had lots of fun following the Blue Trail to the forest classroom.

On my way back to the school parking lot, I decided to blaze my own trail along the top of the athletic fields next to the forest. There I found numerous white-tailed deer trails crisscrossing each other and then continuing on the other side of the fence.

This is such a busy deer highway! We are thinking of setting up a game camera some weekend to see how many deer travel out in the open at night.

Who's Using Our Trail? A Kindergarten Forest Classroom Investigation

Our local elementary kindergarten classes have a forest classroom and we have a blue-blazed trail that runs through the woods to it. The trail we created is an active game trail which we modified a tiny bit for our weekly trek on Woods Wednesday. The trail is covered by leaves and also has many ancient rotting stumps under the surface. This makes for a slightly soft feel underfoot and is not conducive to animal tracks being visible. And, since many of the animals that use the trail use it at night, we set out a game camera to capture Who's Using Our Trail! Volunteering is fun!