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hi

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I'm Aaron Boone principal here at Bristol Elementary

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School 1 aspect here at Bristol

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Elementary School is trying to

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give students a chance to experience many

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different things

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I'm Casey Underwood I teach

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kindergarten Here at Bristol Elementary School um

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today we're in the forest we

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try to come out every Friday afternoon

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we start with a smaller lesson

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inside or a story inside some

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times it relates to something we're learning

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in science or at 4 wins

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today we we talked a little bit

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about um what animals do in the winter and what

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happens when the first snow comes

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we

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sit and have a song and

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then the kids make a

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plan for what they want to do in the woods

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who has a plan what

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they want to do today Marlowe

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okay

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go ahead

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we

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we can use sticks

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to make bridges

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not machines it's a huge

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thing so that not even big

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kids can break it or grown-ups so that

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everything even animals can go

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cross

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the 2 we're

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doing a Snowman

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and we also like to

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explore Woods

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you

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put this on make

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sure you put the snow

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on it

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I got

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my favorite

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part about being outside

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is

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discovering new things outside

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and you want to know how to do

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step outside and

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then in the end we'll all come back um

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and we'll say

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why we're thankful for the forest so we call it

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Thanksgiving and they say thank you to the forest

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and they they did event today

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all right everybody thank

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you

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this time of year we

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have a door decorating contest that

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is run by the uh student council

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and each year we have a

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different theme where a class has

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to decorate their classroom door

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within that theme we are

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celebrating Black History Month and each

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classroom chose a famous

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or influential person to celebrate

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it was really cool watching everybody like

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like make their own door and we learned about

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how there's people who ran

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for president we learned about people who had

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all these great things that kind

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of brought a lot of people together and it's

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great how everybody gets to learn about new things

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and knew people who had

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such a great impact on the country

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writing

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and arithmetic but what kind of

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opportunities special opportunities

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can we give students uh Beyond just

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the 4 Walls of their classroom

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kcg

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to kindergarten and I teach second grade and

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we had a school counselor Jerry Urban it was just the

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finest and best of men who took us

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out with our kids and started this tradition with us

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probably 10 or 12 years ago um and

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he always used a hand drill but we're using regular drills

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now

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Casey and I have been keeping up this position and

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taking our kids out and tapping trees and making maple

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syrup the way real vermonters do

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slide

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it right over so that our bucket is

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coverage and nothing can get into our bucket

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we are tapping trees

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today in the woods we

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are at base camp 1 we have

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12 buckets that we got and

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we are almost finished

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I think my favorite part about it would be just

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like being outside and just tapping the

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trees it's really fun to learn how to do

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it

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boiling boiling Sugar

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House