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Melanie Patric
Jan 11, 20183 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20165 min read
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, 20164 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 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
Jan 19, 20161 min read
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, 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 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 11, 20152 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 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 15, 20152 min read
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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