Greetings Dear Beaver Families,

We have been starting our mornings with a few new songs that welcome and celebrate the coming of Spring. Below is a verse we recite together each day:

My friend gave me a bag of seeds

I asked, “what do I do with these?”

She told me to plant them deep inside the earth

And let them sleep

And in the Spring, you’ll be surprised

By all the flowers before your eyes

But first must come some wind and rain

And a little sun, day after day

I saw the plants and watched them grow

Some bloomed high and some bloomed low

Some bloomed fast and some bloomed slow

But in the end they all did grow

Some were yellow and some were pink

Some were red and some were green

Who would have thought that there would be

The colors of the rainbow inside those seeds

Our story last week was about a village called, “Happiness”, however the people in that village were more heartbroken than happy. They worked for a greedy merchant who did not share his garden fruits with the poor villagers. One day, an old beggar walked through the town and inquired about its people, he wondered why they looked so sad. Meanwhile, he found a pear bud on the ground, opened it up and found a little seed inside. He invited the children and families to join him as he planted the seed into the ground. As soon as he planted it, the seed sprouted, and before the sun went down, a tree had grown full of ripe fruit. The families harvested the fruit and the old beggar insisted that they keep the seeds and return the following day. The next day, the families planted their seeds and soon enough, they had a beautiful orchard of various fruiting trees. They no longer had to work for the greedy merchant. Soon the merchant's tree withered up and he moved away while the people of the village had such a surplus of fruit, they shared it with the neighboring villages. And of course the old beggar man stayed in the village and they took care of him as though he was the whole town’s beloved grandfather.

Reminders: