Snow on Wildcat

The white blanket of snows recently lay on Wildcat like nature's newspaper.
So what could we read on this newspaper?
A few birds here and there but the coyotes were  
everywhere and in some places where we hadn't noticed before. The red lines circle the tracks and trails. Best guess maybe 3 or 4 animals were searching for food on the trails.


I wanted the 2nd graders to observe the tracks but first they wanted to know what a track is.
Well you make a track to see a track...OK
I showed them how to hold your hands and make a fairly good small cougar track.
Well it took about 10 min to cover a lot of ground with 2nd grade mini cougar tracks.
The fun was the next day, the snow had melted around the prints to make them a little more real, the next day was the 3rd graders - who didn't know what had been done..... lots of big eyes until they figured it out!