Challenge 2- learning about John Muir

DISCOVER 

"Every walk in nature one receives far more than he seeks"

John Muir

Jess sent us a lovely wee certificate  ecause we had made a start to the John Muir Award which was a lovely thing to get us in the zone! 

Today is Earth day so we kind of missed John Muir day by a day but we just got on with the challenge.

We downloaded a story off of twinkl.co.uk (a teachers resource site) to put in the correct order and learn about the man himself. And some quotes and mindfulness colouring in to talk about and colour in. 

The kids were most impressed upon by the fact John Muir lost his eyesight in a factory for a while after an accident at work (Claim!) when his eyesight got mended this helped spur on his passion for the outdoors because he was so grateful to be able to appreciate his wild places once again.

We looked at lots of photographs of Dunbar, where he is from and of emigration in the big ships to America. We looked at photographs of Sierra Mountains and Yosemite National Park which he had a hand in setting up. There was then the I. Possible sounding 1000 mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. 5 miles knackers my kids out. We found a blog of a couple, the Redings following in his footsteps. 

Www.Rentaramblingnaturalist.Ws/muir.Htm

 We had a listen to the Mexican national anthem. 

Then we had a look at the John Muir Way route video on the Internet which was a brilliant video and clearly a LOOOOONG trip.

Www.Johnmuirway.org

We also looked at photos of John muir camping with Theodore Roosevelt and talked about what  a President is and where he lives in the USA and had a relaxing afternoon colouring some famous quotes by John Muir