The 2016 winter homeschool session is in full swing. Our tracks have scattered like the fall leaves and settled into new trails which spiral from 4-H acres in the east over to west hill and everywhere in between.

It’s just after 9 AM on a Monday morning, school is off for the day, it’s fourteen degrees outside and a group of six to twelve-year-olds cannot decide what the giant pile of snow they just collaboratively made is.

On one of the most gorgeous days of autumn, kids in the Ithaca area were fortunate to have the day off of school! Many were out and about in town, or playing in their yards, and maybe a few were inside watching cartoons. Dozens were exploring the grounds of 4-H Acres as part of our first Hunter Gatherer school break day.