December Delights
December was filled with fun activities for the Blue Sky Daycare children. We kicked off the month's holiday festivities by learning how...
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Melanie Patric
- Oct 31, 2017
- 3 min
October is for little monsters!
October started with beautiful, sparking sunny days and cool, crisp weather. This was just the right weather for lots of nature walks,...
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Melanie Patric
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
January, Indoors and Out
The weather outside was frightful, but we dressed up to make sure we stayed warm and dry all through January. The rainy weather wasn't as...
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Melanie Patric
- Dec 30, 2016
- 4 min
December Kindness
The children and I kicked off December with a daily "Random Act of Kindness." For the fifteen days before our holiday break, the...
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Melanie Patric
- Nov 30, 2016
- 4 min
November Turkeys!
November started with some beautiful sunny weather that was perfect for planting some flower bulbs. The children loved the idea of...
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Melanie Patric
- Nov 22, 2016
- 5 min
October Spooks
The Blue Sky Daycare children enjoy tons of fun indoors and out, visit a pumpkin patch, learn about autumn, and celebrate Halloween.
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Melanie Patric
- Sep 5, 2016
- 5 min
August Was Bubbling With Fun!
Our 6th annual tie-dye day was a great success although we had to postpone it until the first days of August to ensure that all the...
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Melanie Patric
- Aug 5, 2016
- 5 min
By the "Seaside" in July
July is often a month families enjoy beach visits, so this month we chose to learn about beaches, underwater creatures and the ocean. ...
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Melanie Patric
- Jun 30, 2016
- 4 min
Little "June" Bugs...
June brings the beautiful summer flowers, and with them... the BUGS! The children and I learned about several different types of common...
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Melanie Patric
- Jun 2, 2016
- 5 min
The Merry Month of May
May's flowers arrived as promised, and we used them to make fabulous flower crowns to celebrate May Day. The children loved searching...
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Melanie Patric
- Apr 29, 2016
- 4 min
April Adventures
This month, the children and I focused on the delights of spring, specifically on the life cycle of plants and rainy weather. We engaged...
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Melanie Patric
- Mar 30, 2016
- 3 min
Springing Into March!
March arrived in grand style with lovely warm breezes and a promise of spring. We made it outside as much as possible, especially...
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Melanie Patric
- Feb 26, 2016
- 4 min
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
- Jan 19, 2016
- 1 min
December!
With December came the snow, and we had lots of fun playing in it We made snowmen, complete with pumpkin "crowns..." and snow horses fit...
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Melanie Patric
- Nov 14, 2015
- 2 min
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 9, 2015
- 2 min
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 11, 2015
- 2 min
Block Play, Shooting Stars, Mailbox, and a Colorful Ending...
The children seemed to be in a quiet and meditative mood this morning, so I decided that a good chunk of time spent making and playing...
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Melanie Patric
- Aug 6, 2015
- 2 min
Restaurant, Sunflowers, and A Walk Around the Block...
August has been a perfect month for sunflowers- our two mammoth sunflowers outdoors are just beginning to bud (at about 7-8 feet tall!),...
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Melanie Patric
- Aug 4, 2015
- 2 min
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 15, 2015
- 2 min
Fish, Pretend Beach, and Water Fun...
Today the children and I did some more exploration of our underwater theme. After our morning routine, we worked on creating some shiny,...
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