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Growing Bean Plants
It is that time of year when kids grow like weeds and everything is verdant, sprouting and budding. We’ve been studying the water cycle and
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Rain Stick
Not that we need more rain… Since we are studying rain and the water cycle in April, we made rain sticks. This is a nice
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Songs for Four Seasons
We like to sing songs while our crafts dry. For our Four Seasons of the Apple Tree Craft, we used these songs. The lyrics for
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Four Seasons of the Apple Tree
A chill is in the night air, children are returning to school, and another season is turning. Fall is perhaps my favorite season of all.
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Jam, Jelly, and Preserves
One week the children picked blackberries and turned them into jam!
We went for a program at a local nature center and it was a great reminder that a lot of our negative reaction to insects and other bugs is a learned response. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t recoil when I see our friend, Rosie…
Inspired by this craft on the Elmer’s Glue site, we made our own flag today. The site says appropriate for kids 5-11 but I think
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Patriotic Play!
We had a “patriotic play date” today in anticipation of America’s Birthday. We began by talking a little bit about the Fourth of July and