Imagine

The children have been using their imaginations to invent and play games with each other. Despite being mid January, the trucks and bikes have remained active. There have been games of chase and capture, games with instructions and rules to determine who will be the next to go, shoveling scoops of snow, sled rides, and […]

I Spy With My Little Eye

2020 started with some wonderfully snowy days. We did lots of shoveling! We shoveled pathways, shoveled scoops of snow to dump on our heads, shoveled snow into trucks, shoveled snow into buckets, shoveled snow off the tunnel and toys, and shoveled snow into a giant hill for sledding. Cold temperatures kept us in on Thursday, […]

Little Stars

Snow has returned! The flakes that fell were quickly collected and turned into soup, magic dust, piles, and all sorts of other imaginative things. Snowplows came out to clear “roads” all around the yard. Angels flapped their wings to leave angel prints. Artists created art with sticks and wrote words in the snow. Monday students […]

The Land of Ice and Snow

Two days of rain kept us in for some ribbon dancing and indoor activities. It made our already icy yard even more slick and tricky to traverse. We collected chunks of ice, rode bikes over the slippery surface, chopped down the snowballs, sailed in our boat sleds in search of treasure, and hauled loads of […]