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Juniors
pose for a photo at Thorncrag during a break from learning about bugs.
The Junior Naturalist Program is an afterschool program
for
students in grades 3-5. On Thursdays (see dates below), students meet
at the entrance to Montello Elementary School (407 East Ave., Lewiston,
Maine), at 2:45 PM. We walk up to the gate of Thorncrag for an hour
program
covering a broad range of seasonal natural history topics
including forest
ecology, wetlands, veranl pools, tracking, mammals,
bridwatching, wildflowers,
insects, fungi, soils, geology, orienteering,
and astronomy.
Registration Fee: $15/child, covers cost of membership and all supplies/materials
for the year
Schedule
| TOPIC |
CLASSROOM
LESSON
AT MONTELLO SCHOOL | SATURDAY
FIELD
EXPLORATION
AT THORNCRAG | | Tracking & Signs
| Janunary 10 | January
7 | | Tracking & Signs | Janunary.
24 | January 31 |
| Snow Science | February
7 | Februaru 14 |
Snow Science | February
28 | | Forest
Food Webs | March 6 | March
13 | Signs & Sounds of Spring
| March
27 | April 3 | | Fiddleheads
and Lichens | April 10 | April
17 | | Wildflowers of Maine | May
1 | May 8 | | Bugs!
Bugs! Bugs! | May 15 | May
22 | . For
more information please contact Susan Hayward, 782-5238 or
shayward@bates.edu
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