Birds in Winter Week!

We studied birds, their nests, and had fun back in the woods after our week off! I checked out the kit from the Seattle Audubon again and the kids had a great time studying the real stuffed birds. 

Tuesday Froglets:

This week we had one last class with 2 very sweet kiddos who are heading off on an adventure with their family, we wish them all the best on their adventure! They gave me a sweet book (made all 3 Erin's tear up) and I enjoyed sharing it with all the classes this week.

This week we also had fun with bird food:worms! and searched for birds with our binoculars, studied strange orangish tree wood, found letter C in giant branch form, and had fun with those stuffed birds! 

Tuesday Frogs:

 We celebrated a birthday this week, with Miss. A who has been in my camps and classes for 3 years now! We made little nests of seeds, fed the birds and squirrels, explored and imagined galore!

Wednesday Froglets:

We started off by making nests for the toy birds from the kit, and the kids quickly had an adorable bird village!

In the woods these students were FULL of imagination! They were on a serious fire fighting mission, were active super heroes, and were using a "GPS Unit" (piece of bark) and "compass" (rock" to help us navigate around the woods!

Thursday Tadpoles:

This week we colored our own "binoculars", stomped in the creek and in the mud, went fishing, looked for birds in the woods, had a nice bird story time, and enjoyed seeing the stuffed birds!

   

It was a fun birding week!

Spring and Summer Camps!

Here is the scoop on SPRING and Summer Camps! 

Froggy Holler Spring Break Camp
Come join us this SPRING for a mini Froggy Holler Preschool Camp. We will meet at Hamlin in the morning for some fun forest play, crafts, games and more!

April 22-25 (Mon-Thurs.)

9:30-11:30

Hamlin

 

FH Preschool Summer Camp
9-12
July 29th-Aug 2
at Hamlin
for ages 3-5.
Join us this SUMMER for camp in the woods! Each day we’ll have a different nature themed topic to guide our play. We’ll read, sing, craft, and enjoy the park together. Please provide a nut free snack for your child. Camp comes with a free Froggy Holler tee shirt!

FH Pirate camp
9-3
August 12-16
at Richmond Beach
for Ages 5-7

Ahoy Mateys! FH is going to have another pirate adventure this summer at Richmond Beach! Come join us for the wild fun exploring the beach, telling pirate tales, fort fun, pirate crafts, and maybe even a little buried treasure action at the end of the week! We will stay at the beach longer this year, so please provide a nut free lunch for your child. A Froggy Holler tee shirt for every pirate is included!

 

I'm also offering some garden camps at the Kruckeberg Garden in Richmond Beach this summer, more details on these camps is coming soon! These details are subject to change slightly but the weeks are not! I just had to share info on these with you all first!

FH Garden Camp 

9-3

July 22- 25 (Mon-Thurs)

at Kruckeberg Garden

for ages 6-8

FH Garden Camp

9:30-1:30 

August 19-23

at Kruckeberg Garden

for ages 4-6

 Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about camps!

Precipitation Week

We had fun with a seasonally appropriate topic this week, RAIN! We learned about rain and the water cycle and of course listened to our favorite water cycle song!

Tuesday Froglets:

These kiddos were super into finding "power beads" today! They lucked out and found over a hundred! Between the classes we have now named the colors too, so we have this power color chart:

Red= power of heart

Yellow=power of sun

White= power of mind

Green=Frog power!

Bring greeen=power of nature

Glow in the dark=power of night

and other colors we have yet to find, have powers yet to be named! 

 

 They also played at the "chocolate factory" to get ready for Valentine's Day. ;)

Tuesday Frogs: 

The Frogs were also into finding power beads this week (they have been for years after all...;)), and doing some nest building. They also had fun having a little Valentine's party with treats from Jackson in the circle fort, thanks Jackson and family!

 There was also some impromptu "Mail Myself to You" singing around this mossy tree while discovering new types of fungus.

Wednesday Froglets:

 Wednesday froglets also had fun with power beads and circle fort, and then had a nice visit in Elf Cove, riding the "train" and finding purple fungus!

 They are very kind to each other, and such a loving group, Erin and I don't have enough hands for all the sweeties to want to hold them, so we are often in a long hand holding chain around the woods. At the end of class we had a water cycle dance party!

 Please note the cool dude, holding up my water proof speaker ghetto blaster style! ;)

 Thursday Tadpoles:

Thursday was Valentine's Day! We celebrated by singing some Valentine's songs together, and then sharing the love with the birds of the woods! My Valentine to them included a bag of seeds, so they had a lovely time spreading them all around!

 We also played at elf cove on the train, said "hi" to different plants by shaking their branches, and did some fabulous running through the woods! We also found a heart woodpecker hole, stopped in boat fort for story time and a special Valentine's treat from Sophia and Zoe, thanks girls!!!

 Then there was the ever popular puddle in the parking lot, wouldn't be rain day without a little puddle play right!? 

Thanks for the fun week kiddos and parents! We'll look forward to seeing you again NOT NEXT WEEK (Shoreline schools in out and we follow their calendar) but the following week on February 26th-28th. We'll be studying birds from the Audubon society!

Mud Week!

We went for it this week and had MUD as our theme! It was so much fun to go for it with the kids. We used "mud cups", read all about soil, jumped in puddles, and played like frogs are meant to!

Tuesday Froglets

Tuesday Frogs

Wednesday Froglets

These kiddos took a turn on "Spear Hill" this week and did a great job taking turns, and being safe while throwing their "spears" down the hill.

 

Another favorite moment from the session was when we played "car wash" with fir branches, to try and clean off a bit of the mud.

 

 Thursday Tadpoles

These sweet tots got into it today with the splashing and mud play. There was also some great teamwork with fairy home building, and sweet hand holding too!

 

Parents, thanks for appeasing us by doing all that extra laundry!

Twin Ponds Week

We had our first winter field trip this week to Twin Ponds Park. It's fun to explore somewhere new together, watch all the water fowl, and enjoy the playground in the rain! There were lots of water fowl: mallards, buffleheads, a cormorant, mergansers, seagulls, and a wood duck to be seen among others. We searched for the otters that also have a supposed residence there, along with the barred owl, but we think they were hiding from us! Here are the photos of the week:

Tuesday Froglets:

The first time the kids went down the wet slide in their rain pants, shooting out like a cannon, we all cracked up! They did it over and over and it was so exciting!

Sometimes at FH there are little peaceful moments, moments of study, and then the random downward dog against a tree pose moments:

 

We discussed, read about, and made a 5 senses chart today as well.

This group also found the leaping log, and practiced their flying!

 

Tuesday Frogs:

It had started raining harder for the afternoon class, but they didn't mind a bit, enjoyed watching the rain fall in the ponds, hiding out in the pop up tent, traversing the rooty trail and studying the 5 senses in depth!

 

And of course they put on a great show on the slippery slides!

 When you see smiles like these on a rainy day it makes you want to gear up in cozy layers and find a good slide more often!

 Wednesday Froglets:

These kiddos got right into it finding worms in the mud, then enjoying the birds on the water with the binocs and bird guides:

 They were also really into the 5 senses work we did, and kept giving me great ideas for our chart,

 Thursday Tadpoles:

I love seeing all these frog hatted tadpoles in a row! 

 These kiddos enjoyed bird watching, searching for critters down holes, traversing that rooty trail, and maneuvering across the tricky bridge!

 

We also got lucky back at the dock to see a nearby teacher doing some water sampling to collect tiny pond bugs, daphne:

 

 And what better way to top off a fun week at the ponds than some puddle jumping!