The Pratt Center by Jack M (a five senses poem) I See Kids Playing. I Hear Peepers Peeping. I Smell Sap. I Taste My Mini Wheat Snacks. I Feel Grass in My Hand. Jack is a second grader at Hill and Plain School in New Milford. He is a Summer Camp and enrichment Program Regular. […]
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Tomatopalooza Stop by The Pratt Nature Center Friday May 24th 6-8 pm and Saturday May 25 9-11:00 pm and buy unique Heirloom tomatoes for your garden and Help support the Pratt Nature Center
I don’t know who is more excited, me or the chickens! Summer camp is only 4 Weeks away!!!! If you haven’t signed up yet… give us a call and we will reserve your spot. For all of you New Yorkers, Private Schoolers and Home Schoolers we start Camp June 17th, a whole week before our
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Attention New Milford!!! We will be collecting the following items through the month of May!! Or here is the information to collect and send on your own! Athletic shoes: Nike Reuse A Shoe and Nike Grind www.nikereuseashoe.com Crayons: Crayon Recycling Program www.crazycrayons.com Denim: Cotton From Blue to Green www.cottonfrombluetogreen.org Crocs & shoes: Souls for Souls
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Hey Everyone, First I’d like to thank everyone who came out to the Dirt Dash today. Without all of you, it never would have been possible! The race went as smoothly as we could expect for our first event, and we had lots of great moments that we will share a little later today, when
Earth Day BY JANE YOLEN I am the Earth And the Earth is me. Each blade of grass, Each honey tree, Each bit of mud, And stick and stone Is blood and muscle, Skin and bone. And just as I Need every bit Of me to make My body fit, So Earth needs Grass and stone
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Some people countdown individual days to an important event. I count down Saturdays. I started doing this as a child to countdown the days to Memorial Day Weekend (Memorial Day was my very own official start of summer at Candlewood Lake). Special events never seemed so far away when I counted the Saturdays (only 8 more
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The Following was written by Pratt Intern Brendon Satmary. Brendon is a senior, studying Biology at Ursinus College. The following is his Internship Analytic Essay ENV 381B August 22, 2012 The Pratt Nature Center’s Effect on Young Children My time at the Pratt Nature Center this summer has been a great experience and showed me many aspects
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Ecological Autobiography (11/1/12) I remember more and more of my childhood in a slight haze, a feeling that maybe my memories are invented or maybe just not my own. But across the ice frosted river and up the winding trail through beech trees that have forgotten to shed their rattling brown leaves and into
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Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! “The words of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. SO… Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It’s a Truffula Seed. It’s the last one of all! You’re in charge of the last of
