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
- Sep 9, 2015
- 1 min
Flutter the Butterfly Goes Free!
The Monarch butterflies we've raised from eggs are finally emerging from their chrysalides as beautiful orange-and-black adults. Here is...
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Melanie Patric
- Aug 12, 2015
- 2 min
Circle Time, Sunflower Story, and Gross Motor Skill Builders...
The children and I have been having so much fun with our sunflower theme so far! We love the beautiful coffee filter sunflowers hanging...
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Melanie Patric
- Aug 5, 2015
- 2 min
Monarch Progress, Lots of Pretend, and a Birthday Celebration!
What a great day it was to celebrate a birthday! We began our day with calendar, weather, and our sunflower and bubble circle time...
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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 27, 2015
- 1 min
Monarch Babies...
Over the past few days we've found several Monarch butterfly eggs attached to the undersides of milkweed leaves. We've been keeping a...
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Melanie Patric
- Jul 10, 2015
- 3 min
Teddy Bear Picnic Day...
Our day dawned bright, sunny, and perfect for a picnic! During our morning routine, I shared the story of the origin of one of the most...
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Melanie Patric
- Apr 22, 2015
- 3 min
Fingerpainting, Music, and Life Cycles
With another cold and rainy day on our hands, we knew that the best way to beat the blahs was to get creative with an art project, move...
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Melanie Patric
- Apr 10, 2015
- 2 min
Making Gardens, Life Cycles and Pretend Sleepovers...
April showers officially arrived as rolls of thunder and flashes of lightning proclaimed to us this morning. The children all seemed a...
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Melanie Patric
- Apr 3, 2015
- 2 min
Easter Eggs, Life Cycles, and The Big Park...
This morning started off looking quite dreary and we thought we'd be resigned to a day of indoor play, but it turned out that wasn't the...
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