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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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Melanie Patric
Jul 7, 20153 min read
Seashells, Sand Soup, Small World, and Cooking Zucchini...
July might just be better than June for water play, so we are focusing on oceans as our monthly theme. Our morning circle time routine...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 29, 20151 min read
Celebrating Summer, Sandbox Towns, and Flower Hunting...
What fun we had this morning as the children pretended to be "Summer Fairies" who were responsible for showing the bees where all the...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 29, 20152 min read
Favorite Flowers, Mud Kitchen, and Puzzling it Out...
As the children trickled in after breakfast, we started our day working on a large jigsaw puzzle. We worked on sorting the pieces into...
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Melanie Patric
Jun 4, 20152 min read
Water Play, Garden Help, and Little Critter...
Could the weather possibly be more perfect than it has been the last two days? The kids and I think not! We spent as much time outside...
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Melanie Patric
May 29, 20152 min read
Dying Silks, Al Fresco Dining, and Mud Kitchen
The children and I have been enjoying our morning routine quite a bit this month. We've been focusing on nursery rhymes, and at this...
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Melanie Patric
May 20, 20151 min read
Block Play, Worms, and Water Play...
Today began with block play after our usual morning routine. We used a combination of rocks and handmade nature blocks, and the children...
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Melanie Patric
May 18, 20153 min read
Birthday and Mother's Day Celebrations and Everything Leading Up to Them!
We've had a busy week with lots of hush-hush Mother's Day projects going on. It's been tough to blog about things we couldn't talk...
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Melanie Patric
Apr 22, 20153 min read
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 16, 20152 min read
A Day Outdoors in the Garden...
Today was the perfect day to head out into the garden and plant the seeds we started in March. Many of our seedlings were more than...
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Melanie Patric
Apr 14, 20152 min read
Recycling, Outdoor Play and Seed "Bombs..."
The morning dawned bright and clear and the sunny weather made the perfect day for lots of outdoor play and messy sensory play. We began...
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Melanie Patric
Mar 16, 20153 min read
Marigolds and the 2nd Inaugural Opening of the Sandbox...
The children and I had a lovely, busy Monday morning. We did our regular calendar and weather routine and were ever so happy to change...
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Melanie Patric
Mar 6, 20153 min read
Trains, Seed Planting, and Block Play...
Trains turned out to be the toy of choice this morning after our morning routine. We practiced our manners while trains chugged along...
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Melanie Patric
Mar 4, 20152 min read
Outdoor Adventure Day, Color Matching, and Music...
What a wonderful day to be outside! Since the sun was shining down so cheerfully and our energy levels were high, we went on an outdoor...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 25, 20152 min read
On the Farm, Pasta Play, and Squirrel-ers...
It was a great day right from the start! Everyone seemed to be in a sprightly mood; perhaps the lengthening of days and the sunshine had...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 24, 20152 min read
Tunnels, Tubes, and Houses, Oh My!
We had tons of fun during our morning routine today. We sang and clapped to the ABC's, practiced our counting, and did our love-themed...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 18, 20151 min read
A Perfect Day for Sensory Painting...
This morning we enjoyed a really fun pretend session. We set up the farm animals with a big fence made of unit blocks. We played out a...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 17, 20153 min read
Celebrating President's Day With Facts, Math, and Science!
Today we celebrated President's Day with some fun stories during our circle time. We looked at pictures of George Washington and Abraham...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 5, 20153 min read
Keeping the chill away with science and math...
It was below zero this morning, so it came as a sort of no-brainer that we were going to take a break from all the snow play and enjoy...
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Melanie Patric
Feb 4, 20152 min read
A Day of Snow Play!
Sometimes I feel that the daycare's wintertime motto should be "if life sends you snow, play in it!" and today was no exception. With a...
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