Beach Week!

We learned about the water cycle this week while visiting a big body of water, the Puget Sound (now part of the "Salish Sea") at Richmond Beach! We had fun visiting creatures on the beach, learning about different types of seaweed (succulent, lettuce, turkish towels, etc.), making beach fairy houses, exploring the forts, reading water stories, dancing along with funny water cycle songs, and having fun on the beach together!

Tuesday Preschool Froglets:

 

   Tuesday K Frogs: 

Wednesday Preschool Pollywogs:

Thursday Tadpoles:

Under a Log Week

This week we talked about insects and other under a log sorts of findings. This time of year we were finding all sorts of arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks and more! We also met another Teacher Erin, used magnifying glasses, started our nature journals (or made puppets in the tots class), named "Spiderman trail" and of course had lots of fun playing, music making, and learning outside together! 

Tuesday Pre Froglets:

(not pictured, an insect dance party at the end of class! ;))

Tuesday K Frogs:

 Yes, if you look closely we did find a dead mouse, and Teacher Erin (Red) was the only one who touched it as we buried it together. There was lots of discussion on life cycles today! Also above, dead beetle exoskeletons. 

We also generated some unanswered questions, why were there so many insects wings in this spot on a douglas fir, and why so much condensation on the outside of this shelf fungus:

 Wednesday Pre Pollywogs:

We celebrated a special birthday this week! We are happy to celebrate your child's bday at FH!

Thursday Tadpoles:

I hope your children are searching for insects at home, and at other parks more than ever, I know I am! Our family just got a special bug case and preserving equipment so I hope to share that with you all soon!

Fall Classes begin!

What a truly FUN week we had starting off Froggy Holler! It was so exciting to meet so many fun new students and families! I will try my best to share some thoughts each week with you all here, and photos too. The first session is all about getting to know the group, the routines, rules, songs, etc. and the time always flies by! It was froggy week and we hopped right into action:

Tuesday Preschool:

 

 Tuesday K:

 

 Wednesday Preschool:

 

 Thursday Parent Tot:

 

Goodness there are a whole lot of eager learners, who are adorable at FH this year! It's going to be so much fun this fall learning and playing with them!

Fairy Camp at Kruckeberg!

We had a delightful week at Fairy Camp at Kruckeberg Botanic Garden this summer! This group of very sweet kiddos was so fun to craft and play with. Here are some photos of all the fun we had each day:

Monday we really got a fantastic start to our gardens! (and I forgot the good camera! ;)):

 

and a great start to our fairy village:

Tuesday we worked more on our fairy gardens, and began making fairy dolls before we headed down the trail modelling our fairy wings and using our more decorated collection bags to gather sweet items for the village:

After story, songs, snack etc. we worked hard on our village today:

 

Wednesday we continued with our gardens, and worked more on our village between lots of play, singing, stories, flower press making, and so on:

  

We also discovered the perfect jumping log to test our flying skills!

Thursday we counted tree rings, made more fairy people, explored with magnifying glasses,

 made fairy bubble wands, and practiced our log flying some more:

 

 Friday was an absolutely FUN filled day at the garden! It started off with 2 fairies bringing their pet goats:

  

After a little water coloring of our last fairy people (babies), we went down pretty quickly into the garden to do our story time and so on, so we could could have extra time to work on our village! 

We painted little signs so visitors (and there were  A LOT!) would know the names of our creations:

Toward the end of our time together we were joined by parents and families to see our work and celebrate with us!

 

We sang "If You're a Fairy and You Know It" one last time with real props (kids made up the lyrics). The fairies got their last special beads, and a fairy dust necklace to take home!

 

It really was a LOVELY week, thanks to all of your for being a part of it!