Jaxton's Preschool Fun

 Jaxton's preschool class has been full of fun activities this spring.  First, his class took a fun field trip to Sweet Art Country Kitchen, a big baking store that has a large classroom kitchen in the back.  The instructor gave directions and supplies to each child to decorate a cupcake to make the frosting look like grass and jelly bean eggs.  They each got to make a milk chocolate mold candy pop with colored chocolate too, and a bird's nest out of a candy chocolate mixture.  Oh yummmm!

 I was able to help out in Jaxton's preschool classroom Easter party.  We had a small Easter egg hunt where they each had to find only the 2 eggs that had their first name and their last name on them.  They played the classic egg on a spoon game and relayed around some cones and back.  They decorated these little easter baskets and got to eat an easter snack.  Fun Fun!!

 Last week, Jaxton's class went on another field trip to Matea County Park, which is almost literally in our back yard.  It was quite a chilly spring morning, but super fun!  Our naturalist park ranger took us on a nature hike through the park to learn about all different forms of nature that live around Fort Wayne.  He taught us that birds do not have a sense of smell.  Thus, if you take one of their eggs out of their nest, and put it back right where you found it, they will never know.  So he took out an egg and let us see how tiny the birds eggs were.  Fascinating!

 In the forest of the county park are these bushes.  I forget what they are called exactly, but they are basically a basil-garlic plant that grows out of control in Indiana.  When you pick a leaf and rub it together into a ball and then take a sniff, you smell a strong smell of garlic, kind of like pizza.  I actually found a couple of these in our woods later that day.  He told us to come by whenever we want to take some basil-garlic home with us to cook with!  I may seriously take him up on that offer!

 The guide also found this random plant that was brought to Indiana long ago to use in bed mattresses.  It sticks to everything!  He had a lot of fun tossing these plants at the kids and they'd just stick right on their shirts.  And the kids thought it was so funny and strange!! He also pointed out deer tracks and all the kids were marveling at them.  But Jaxton sees deer out his back window every week or so and we find tracks in the woods all the time!!  I love that we have deer behind our house and nature in our own backyard!!  What a fun and interesting field trip.  We both learned a whole lot about the nature in our own city and had a great time spending the morning together, just he and I.