Latest adventures

This has been a full week of joyful discoveries.
We had a park day on Wednesday morning, yoga and lavendar massages with Miss Meghan on Tuesday and Thursday, and lots of play with a variety of objects on the light table. The children have been enjoying playing in our many indoor "forts". They are presently listening to a sweet and tender story about a mouse who comes out of the ground to discover the snow and explores the journey of a particular snowflake and its continued journey into various forms from stream, cloud, fog, and rain. Circle times include nursery rhymes and a song about tea time after which they transition to getting ready for snack time and going outside to play. Our daily schedule usually follows this routine:

8 - 8:30 Arrival and free play
8:30 - 9 Planned learning activity related to the current story of the week
9:15 Circle Time ( very important time to get all children and teacher connected for the day)
9:30 Snack Time/Story
9:50 Outside Play
11:30 Lunch
11:50 Quiet songs with the lyre/kinderharp/Story
12 Rest/sleep
3 Snack
3:30 Outside Play/ Art activity
5 Clean up and preparations for going home/Story

Did you know that by the time most children go to kindergarten, they have spent more than 5,000 hours in front of a TV? Enough time to earn a college degree. Be Out There is National Wildlife Federation's initiative to inspire families across America to open the door and get outside. To start the new year off right take the 2010 Be Out There Resolution to Know, Go, and Grow. www.nwf.org/Get-Outside/Be-Out-There.aspx

Have a happy and peaceful weekend!