FIAR: Tracking animals while reading 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening'

The fun of snow is seeing the tracks animals leave behind - and making our own! One winter day we headed up north to traipse through the woods and look for whatever animal tracks we could find. We also kept our eyes peeled when we walked through our own city lot, and when we took a field trip to the children's area at the UofM Arboretum in Chanhassen.

What a packed down deer trail!

In addition to tracks, we found some deer scat!

WE READ:
- Best Foot Forward: Exploring Feet, Flippers and Claws by Ingo Arndt
- Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints by Millicent E. Selsam
- Crinkleroot’s Guide to Animal Tracking by Jim Arnosky
- Wild Tracks by Jim Arnosky
- Crinkleroot's Guide to Giving Back to Nature by Jim Arnosky
- Crinkleroot's Nature Almanac by Jim Arnosky

I found a few resources to help guide our discovery.

• Animal Tracks Match-Up Game
• Whose Footprints are These?
• Montessori for Everyone: Animal Tracks flashcards

We also loved reading the many Field Guides on topics such as Winter Birds, Surviving the Winter, Snowshoes and Snow put together by the Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre in Canada.