Geocaching!

Today, we tried something new after Spanish school.  We went on a treasure hunt!  It's called geocaching and it's (mostly) easy and fun!  You go to www.geocaching.com and register for a free account.  Then, you search for "caches" near you.  We have a nice creek and walking trail in our neighborhood and we learned that there are about 10 within a mile of our house!  Who knew?  So we used the GPS on the iPhone and headed off along the trail.  We searched for the first one for a long time with no luck, but then, we moved to the next one and had success!

Inside the bottle was a long log of names and dates - probably 40 or so dating back 2 years!  We added our names to the list.  Then, there was a treasure inside...

Two (thank goodness!) Halloween rings!  The rule is that if you take something, you have to leave something, so Zoe chose to leave her smaller field journal with plenty of words and pictures but also lots of space for the next person to use as well.

This was so much fun and we will do it again soon!  It's so interesting to learn about hidden things that have been right under our noses all along!

Then, there was rice to be dyed for a new sensory bin.  Can you guess the theme?  The students are very excited.