Fishy
We were so grateful that the first week of spring was truly spring-like with sunny days bringing above freezing temperatures. A soup shop was set up, selling concoctions such as chocolate peanut butter soup, and chocolate raspberry soup. Games of Duck, Duck, Goose, Red Light, Green Light, and What Time Is It Mr. Fox? were […]
Sharkish
Winter weather was in full force, bringing lots of snow for snowmen, snowballs, shoveling, and sledding. We are staying strong wading through the many inches of white flakes. After our Wednesday snow day we really enjoyed all of the new snowfall.For Monday art we introduced the artist Hokusai, and his famous wood block print “The […]
The Last Great Race
Sled dogs teamed up to pull sleds around the yard after reading about the Iditarod, which is currently in progress from Anchorage to Nome. Snow boarders took turns racing down the snow hill. Fresh snow was shoveled away and rolled up into serum snowballs to be pulled on sleds to the diphtheria victims in Nome.The […]
Determination
A warm front briefly brought some spring-like weather. We enjoyed building snowmen and giant snowballs. On Wednesday it was warmer outside than in, so we took off jackets and got to work chopping out a channel to drain all the melted snow and ice. The children loved scooping out slush, water, and ice chunks, and […]