Greetings Dear Beaver Families,
The students enjoyed playing in the rain last week, and while some preferred to stay dry and color on our platform, eventually everyone decided to join in the rain fun. Puddles were jumped in and the mud kitchen was overflowing with mud pies and other baked goods. On Thursday, we celebrated our dear Oliver’s fifth birthday. A few friends discovered they could fit together inside a large tire and made it into their own bathtub. They took turns to taking leaf baths, and showering each other with leaves. Thank you to Ki Kim for gifting our class with a beautiful handcrafted Tic Tac Toe board- a new favorite game to play at Basecamp.
On Friday, the students watched a heartwarming puppet play about a kind woman named Anna who lived alone in a cottage in the woods. On her way to collect wood to keep her cottage warm she found a little snow child. She carried the snow child home since it was all alone. She knew the snow baby had to live where the cold winds blew, so she pushed and patted the snow together outside her cottage until she built the baby a snow cave. Anna cared for the snow baby all winter long, she would sing and play with the baby and rock her to sleep. One day, Anna noticed patches of green grass starting to show. She became afraid her snow baby would melt so she urgently took care to push more snow onto the snow cave to keep the baby cool. One night she dreamt grandmother Snow came to her, she told Anna that she saw how much love and care she showed the snow baby and told her to look inside the snow cave. When Anna woke up, she ran to the cave where she saw the baby smiling and reaching out her arms to her mama. Anna noticed the baby had warm rosy cheeks and her hands were warm too. Since she loved the snow baby so much, it became a human baby and they lived together with joy all through the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
Reminders:
If you haven’t already, please sign up for a conference at the following link. If neither of those days or times work for you, please let me know and we can schedule a meeting separately.
Please make sure your child has gloves, plenty of layers and warm, insulated boots for forest play. Especially this time of year, unlined rain boots are not warm enough. It is best to always send two pairs of shoes, just in case toes get wet and cold and a change is needed.
Kindly,
Ki Fatima
