Mud Season on the Playground

While many adults around Vermont are bemoaning the onset of mud season, many of the children at EES are loving it!  They have moved from one sensory experience (snow) to another in a matter of weeks.

Many students enjoyed picking up the mud and splashing in it.  

This week students could be observed working on a spontaneous project in a large, collaborative group. Wednesday was warm, and water was pouring down from the field over the stairs. Students worked together to dig ditches, walls, and dams to direct the flow all the way down both sets of steps into the storm drain.

Listen to a student describe the project, and watch it flow all the way to the drain. They even placed a very large stone on the lower steps to divert it back to the side. Pretty amazing teamwork and engineering.

Students are great at finding all sorts of innovative ways to keep themselves learning at recess. Here, this student has used found objects and natural materials to create a hatchet.

Here, he describes the tool he made.

The tool helped him in digging out stones for the ditches and dams the group built.

Get inspired, go outside, and try out engineering in the mud!