Welcome to Sophie

We welcome our newest playmate, Sophie.
She is 4 1/2 and joined us this week. Staying for the remainder of the spring semester, Sophie has already started helping us prepare for our garden and sand area....a very earnest worker with the shovel and a delight to have with the children.
It is always a joy to see how the older ones, such as Aubrey, Katie, and now Sophie, will naturally extend a willing hand of help to the younger children. What a gift to have a mixed aged group where each child enriches the lives of the others.
Everyone is enjoying the warmer temperatures and there is this wonderful, calm, settled sense among us. There is a lot of purposeful work going on in the yard with quiet focus and excited discoveries.....worms, mud, sprouting plants, and roly poly bugs

If you haven't already, please make sure to include good sun hats and sunscreen every day. It might even be a good idea to apply the sunscreen before you head over here because there are many mornings that we are starting our day outside.

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey and Yellow is the Sun have been two of our current stories among many others about spring, gardens, and bugs and we have been painting and working with the color yellow.

Keep the family photos coming in! We are using them for a variety of projects.
Photos of your house, extended family members, pets, and anything else that your child would recognize are all great ideas.

Do you have any way to obtain tree stumps, large branches, big boulder type rocks, etc?
We are looking for a border for our sand area and help in putting this together.
Also, if you can donate any time or resources for our vegetable garden we ultimately would like this to be a group experience for the children where they can see the adults in their life working together to make their play space a beautiful, healthy, and living area.

Our May Day festival will be Saturday, May 30 from 3 until 5.
Join us for a traditional MayPole dance, singing, games, and food.
Bring your favorite food to share.

Love and peace to all of you!