But...It's a Blizzard Outside

Sometimes we just need to overcome inertia…  I find that as adults we are far more deterred by what we see when we look out the window than kids are.  Proof in point.  We had a “Winter Adaptations” field trip for the first graders of Kennebunkport Consolidated School on Friday. 

As adults we looked outside and thought… seriously? We want them to go out in this?  We will either loose them in the 3 feet that got dropped 2 days prior, or they will complain to death because of the nearly white out conditions now.  But guess what?  Not one of them disappeared into the snow drifts for eternity, and they had a ball catching snowflakes on their tongues, hefting their snowshoes through the snow and looking for signs of life in the woods.

Often times out own moods about the weather deter us from sending our kids out to play.  This was not the case with my mom, who rain, snow or shine, thought I was much better to play outside than under her feet… all in loving materal-ness I am sure.  Perhaps we should see everyday, every kind of weather as an opportunity to teach something new. 

After all, what better way to teach about how animals have to adapt to the Maine winters than to go out and experience one!