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Legos, Lemonade, and a Park Visit...
Today we started our day as usual with our calendar, weather, and circle time routines. After that, the children (with occasional help)...
Melanie Patric
Jul 8, 20152 min read
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Seashells, Sand Soup, Small World, and Cooking Zucchini...
July might just be better than June for water play, so we are focusing on oceans as our monthly theme. Our morning circle time routine...
Melanie Patric
Jul 7, 20153 min read
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Flavoring Water, Counting Change, Water Play, and New Flowers...
Today was chock-filled with fun activities for all the children! Once we finished our morning routine, we talked about making water...
Melanie Patric
Jul 6, 20152 min read
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Picnic Day!
The children have been looking forward to picnic day all month long- it's one of their favorite events. We had so much fun and it began...
Melanie Patric
Jun 18, 20152 min read
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Baby Vegetable Peek-a-Boo, Butterfly Feeder, and Badminton...
As the children and I did our calendar and weather routine this morning we figured we were in for another misty, moisty morning, but we...
Melanie Patric
Jun 17, 20152 min read
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Campouts, Fine Motor Skills, and Cooking...
Today dawned grey and rainy, so we could tell we were going to have some fun indoors for a change. Once we finished our calendar,...
Melanie Patric
Jun 12, 20152 min read
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Water, Water Everywhere...
Glorious June- your weather makes all our water play dreams come true! Once we were done our morning routine, we spent the majority of...
Melanie Patric
Jun 4, 20151 min read
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Water Play, Garden Help, and Little Critter...
Could the weather possibly be more perfect than it has been the last two days? The kids and I think not! We spent as much time outside...
Melanie Patric
Jun 4, 20152 min read
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Restaurant, Bread Making, and Follow the Leader
This morning the children were full of imagination, so after our morning routine, we played out several pretend restaurant scenarios. ...
Melanie Patric
May 19, 20152 min read
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Birthday and Mother's Day Celebrations and Everything Leading Up to Them!
We've had a busy week with lots of hush-hush Mother's Day projects going on. It's been tough to blog about things we couldn't talk...
Melanie Patric
May 18, 20153 min read
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May Day!
May Day lived up to its reputation and then some- we had a gorgeous, sunny day to celebrate the stirrings of spring and the coming of...
Melanie Patric
May 4, 20152 min read
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Earth Day Celebration #1
The weather didn't turn out the way we had hoped, so today's Earth Day celebration was somewhat more subdued than planned, but as usual,...
Melanie Patric
Apr 23, 20152 min read
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Our St. Patrick's Day Celebration...
We had a wonderful time celebrating St. Patrick's Day here at Blue Sky Daycare! We began our day with our calendar and weather routine. ...
Melanie Patric
Mar 17, 20152 min read
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Outside at Last, Shopping for Meals and Dress-Up...
The long stretch of days spent indoors finally came to an end, and we were very, very happy about it! We headed outdoors right after...
Melanie Patric
Feb 26, 20152 min read
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Valentine's Day Roundup and Cooking Science and Math...
Today we worked on some of the finishing touches in our big Valentine's Day gift for the childrens' parents- a book of Valentine's hearts....
Melanie Patric
Feb 10, 20152 min read
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Snow Day? Hooray!
Today the children and I had an amazing time playing in the aftermath of the biggest snowstorm of the season! It was a truly memorable...
Melanie Patric
Feb 2, 20152 min read
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Birdies, Balls, and Black Beans...
This morning during our calendar and weather routine, the children noticed two mourning doves pecking at seeds under the birdfeeder. We...
Melanie Patric
Jan 27, 20153 min read
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The Flexibility of Block Play and Sugar on Snow...
I try to fit block play in with the children about once per week. Blocks are what childhood education experts call "open-ended" toys,...
Melanie Patric
Jan 22, 20153 min read
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ABC's and Banana Bread
This morning was all about cooking for us. We worked on our measuring skills with the cuppers and some teaspoons. After that, we washed...
Melanie Patric
Jan 7, 20151 min read
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