Hello out there Garden Children and families. My own children are digging into their online school here in the kitchen, and my dog thinks our new schedules are just right. How are you feeling? I've been thinking about all of the Honeybees and their ... [Read More]
Tuesday March 17 :: Honeybees
Good morning Honeybees... and Friendly Foxes and Bluebirds! I'm wondering what you are thinking about today. I thought I'd bring you a song, a book, and an activity this morning. Do you have any old crayons? Even broken crayons? Get set up to peel ... [Read More]
The Bluebirds :: St. Patrick’s Day Activities
Hello, Beloved Bluebird Families! I am missing your children and wanted to post some activities that might help your family through these days of school closure. Please know that this list is not mandatory homework to be checked off or turned in ... [Read More]
Playing and Learning at Home
Dear Families, Do you remember last fall when we LOST a caterpillar! Sylvia brought in some caterpillars on some parsley (was it parsley?) and then the caterpillars didn't like the organic parsley from Kroger. The biggest caterpillar escaped never ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 24
Hello, Friendly Foxes!We have had an absolutely delightful time with our second week of Owl Studies. While last week we focused on the Owls of Virginia, this week we branched out into learning about many of the other owls that live all over the ... [Read More]
The Honeybees :: Week 24
I realized while I was meeting with teachers this morning that I never blogged our last week before spring break. We played with dinosaurs and read ALL the amazing dinosaur books from the public library. We played all week in our big ... [Read More]
The Bluebirds :: Week 24
Hello, Bluebird Families! It was so great to come back to school this week and spend time with your children! We continued our study of volcanos. We read a few more books on volcanos. We painted our clay volcanos, which were finally dry. We played ... [Read More]
The Bluebirds :: Week 22
Hello, Bluebird Families! This week we began studying volcanos. Before we started, I reassured the children that they did not need to be scared of volcanos popping up in their backyard. I explained that there are not any volcanos near where we ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees :: Week 23
The Honey Bees spent the week wrapping up Space and starting to contemplate dinosaurs. All of our community paintings of the planets went up around the room. This week we'll cut each one into twelve smaller planets for a take home project. We used ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 23
Hello, Friendly Foxes!We have had a wonderful week learning all about the Owls of Virginia. Owls are such fascinating creatures and it is so much fun to learn about the animals who live right here among us in our own forests, and that we might even ... [Read More]
