Frost in the Shadows
The children were busy outside playing with mud, digging in the sand, pulling around sleds, and playing with friends. When new tree stumps were discovered in the yard, the children quickly built a balancing course. It started as a line, then became a circle so they could walk around and around without stopping. The cold […]
Spooks and Soups
Rain brought puddles and mud, which made for some messy days, but lots of wet fun. For Monday art the artist Paul Klee was introduced, and his use of shapes in his work Castle and Sun. The children created their own works of art by gluing shapes into patterns to display in our gallery. For […]
Mix It Up
Some much needed rain came down, but luckily it only kept us in one day. We spent our cloudy but warm days setting up and running through an obstacle course that put our gross motor (big muscle) skills to use. We alternated feet running through hoops, crossed a balance beam, step walked across big blocks, […]
Pumpkin Time
The trees are almost bare and the nip of fall is in the air. The sunshine kept us warm while we traversed the balance beam and the log, played toss, rode bikes, hauled loads of dirt in our trucks, dug in the sand, raked leaf piles and threw them up in the air, and set […]