Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall!
August and September were filled with fun and interesting activities for the Blue Sky Daycare children!
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Melanie Patric
Oct 23, 20172 min read
July
July arrived with its usual dose of heat, and to keep the cool off, the children and I decided to use some refreshing lemons. We chose...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 26, 20164 min read
February, The Month of Holidays
February may be a short month, but it does not lack for holidays, and we celebrated! Groundhog Day: We started our day reviewing what we...
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Melanie Patric
Nov 14, 20152 min read
Tinkering, Bopping Balls, and Lights in the Darkness...
The waning light of November brought the children and I to a more introspective place, and through the month we worked on cultivating the...
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Melanie Patric
Sep 25, 20152 min read
Applesauce Day!
The daycare kids were so excited when they learned that today was applesauce day! Our visit to the Homestead Orchard was simply magical-...
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Melanie Patric
Sep 22, 20152 min read
A New Face, Block Play, and Riding the Train...
As the gorgeous misty sunrise I saw this morning can attest, autumn is here, and along with it is a new face at Blue Sky Daycare! This...
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Melanie Patric
Sep 18, 20152 min read
Tiny The Butterfly is Released, Apple Stars, and an Apple Taste Test!
Last night I took a picture of Tiny the Monarch in his chrysalis (yes, he is a boy!). You can clearly see that the chrysalis had...
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Melanie Patric
Sep 9, 20152 min read
Apple Circle Time, Apple Tree Art, and Make Believe...
September is well underway, and we are focusing on apples right now. We have a lovely variety of circle time movement rhymes and...
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Melanie Patric
Aug 26, 20152 min read
Goin' Grocery Shopping, Simon Says, and Silly Movement Games...
There was a slight chill in the air this morning, so we focused on some big-body movement games to warm us up today. After our morning...
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Melanie Patric
Aug 15, 20152 min read
Muffins, A Bird Rescue, and Outdoor Fun...
This morning was lots of fun. After our calendar, weather, and monthly circle time routine, the children requested some extra circle...
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Melanie Patric
Aug 4, 20152 min read
A New Face, Caterpillar Babies, and Big Butterflies...
It's amazing how much change can occurr over a weekend. Today we welcomed another new face to our daycare family, a little boy of almost...
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Melanie Patric
Jul 21, 20152 min read
A Birthday Celebration!
We had a very special celebration today- a birthday! It's so much fun to make a special day filled with favorite activities for the...
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Melanie Patric
Jul 16, 20152 min read
Ice Cream Day!
We loved celebrating ice cream day today! After our morning routine, we talked about different flavors of ice cream, then we filled out...
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Melanie Patric
Jul 9, 20151 min read
A Soup and Bread Kind of Day...
Today was another chilly day and the children and I decided it was a perfect day to make our favorite vegetable soup and bread meal...
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Melanie Patric
Jul 6, 20152 min read
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...
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Melanie Patric
Jul 2, 20152 min read
Happy July, Tangrams, and Park Time...
We were excited to change the calendar over from June to July this morning, change out some of our toys, and put some of our July...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 29, 20152 min read
Favorite Flowers, Mud Kitchen, and Puzzling it Out...
As the children trickled in after breakfast, we started our day working on a large jigsaw puzzle. We worked on sorting the pieces into...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 15, 20153 min read
Flag Day Celebration!
We had so much fun celebrating Flag Day today! After calendar, weather, and circle time, the children and I looked at a picture of the...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 4, 20151 min read
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...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 2, 20152 min read
Discovering Uncharted Territory...
During one of our recent trips to the park, another adult told me about a larger park that was just a little further away, and today we...
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