Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
Category Early Childhood
Play is the Work of Early Childhood
Whether we are chipping at ice, grinding grain, churning cream into butter, or using an orange cone and stick to pretend to churn cream into butter… it’s all work in early childhood!
Sunflower Garden - Hike Day
Hike day on what we hope is the last snow of the season! Lots of animal tracks to be found… coyote, raccoon, rabbit, and deer!
Sunflower Garden - Watercolor Painting
Watercolor painting—with three colors—in the Sunflower Garden.
Sunflower Garden News - A Word from Miss Donna
King Winter, be gone, and soon cometh the spring The ice is a-breaking. The flowers awaking~ And green groweth each new thing! King Winter, be gone, and your rule put away. The birds one and all now with jubilant call…
Sunflower Garden: Butter Churning
Sunflower Garden and friends churning cream into butter on bread day! “Come, butter, come! Come, butter, come! Buddy’s waiting at the gate For his little butter plate! Come, butter, come!”
Sunflower Garden: A Word from Miss Donna
Dear Sunflower Garden Families, Thanks to all of you for supporting these first two weeks of me back in the classroom. All is going well, and I thank you. Keep reinforcing good manners at home… “I want…” is an expression…
Sunflower Garden: Magical Woods
Magical woods, fairy houses, fire tending, and butter churning....snippets from our week in the Sunflower Garden and our early childhood community.