Outside it is a wintery wonderland.  Thanks to Lindsay and Finn, our backyard truly IS a WINTER WONDERLAND filled with snow caves and sledding hills!  Thanks not only for the shoveling, but for taking it a step further and creating some cool winter art and discovery areas.  We sooooo appreciate your generous help in our outdoor learning environment! 

Also, another shout out to Tim Ramer, our north neighbor who has our section of 29th street looking like the best plowed street/sidewalks in all of Riverpark.  Love that man!

Inside, since it was too cold to enjoy any outside time today (tomorrow looks warmer), Melinda led interested children through a flower exploration of old dried out tulips to planting new amaryllis pots.  There were many steps to this process of digging up the old tulips and preparing the pots for the new plants.  Mel adding in measurement concepts as the children determined smallest to largest and used a ruler to start tracking the amaryllis growth for 8 weeks.

 

Some quotes from the un-potting and planting process…

“It looks like a cake!”

“The ball of a tree was bigger than me once.”

“Ahh, look at the baby bulb!”

“Look, there’s no root on this one!”

“It looks like hair.”

‘’I’m exhausted”  (I guess that makes sense, the activity lasted for over an hour for which most of the participating children CHOSE to stay at the table for the duration)

“It’s the medium size.”

“Ohhh, I got to the bottom of it” (mixing the potting soil cake with water)

“Let’s measure across.” 

“That one [bulb] is lower, but the dirt is the same.”

For breakfast the children had warm malto- meal cereal with applesauce.  WeeSprouts were cucumbers.  Lunch was my homemade whole wheat mac-n-cheese, mixed veg and apple slices. Snack will be goldfish and peanuts.

Have a wonderful day!

Tami