Hello all! Welcome to our first post about the adventures of in-school Mountain SOL day at MLA, told from the point of view of storyteller and tangent-extraordinaire Jen-Osha! The brief version: tomorrow is our first day of in-school Mountain SOL at MLA. We will be starting off the year learning about mountains! Please be sure […]
We had an absolutely perfect spring day. You could not ask for better weather to spend time wander all over the woods with no shoes on. We started out the class with a warm-up…free-range style. Then, we followed it up with a hike up the hill. We paused for our snack break on a bare, […]
Another beautiful spring day; perfect for spending time outside. What better way to prepare yourself for your next marathon (or your next marathon hiking adventure) than to run or crawl up and down a clay embankment! The students practiced climbing under the “overhang.” Then they had lots of fun running and jumping over the “hole” […]
We are so very pleased with our first semester of Mountain SOL. This semester we offered both an in-school program for students at the Morgantown Learning Academy as well as afterschool programs open to all local students. Our In-School Mountain SOL program worked with Morgantown Learning Academy classroom teachers, from Pre-K 3 through Middle School, […]
What we have been up to: We have been exploring our property and creating new hideouts as well as working on our tracking skills! We found new fox and even bobcat tracks today on our property. (these images are not ours, but we used them to show our online students what a West Virginia bobcat […]
Hello everyone! Hercules says that the plants around this area are Yucca, Pincushion cactus, Prickly pear cactus , and Agave.[ Might see] Cereus cactus. Animals in his area are the Prarie dog, fox, coyote, and tarantula! He is hiking in the Gloss Mountains State Park: Gloss Mountain State Park is located in the heart of a […]
Written by the Jaguares… This was the first campout that nobody asked if we were cancelling….since Mountain SOL never cancels…and it rains every time. We hiked up the hill to the teepee tent and our scout camp. We laid our stuff out in the tent, stuffed our face with pizza, asked for more, and then […]
Today we went to Coopers Rocks. We found all kinds of new stuff. It was Kris’s first time at Coopers Rocks and it was his birthday :]! We climbed rocks+we went in caves that we had to squeeze through. Happy Birthday Kristian!! Here we are at the Overlook! It was supposed to thunderstorm on us…but […]
Here are the online check-ins that we have received so far: From Sajit (Nepal): Hi! I’m hiking near Shivapuri. Aiselu, Nepalese small wild fruit .we called in English wild raspberries. A common fruit in the hilly Nepal, Aiselu, is usually ripe for eating in around spring time. These delicious wild raspberries can be plucked […]
