Greetings Dear Honeybee Families,
We had a wonderful first week of school and the children played happily together through each day. On Monday, the children helped to peel and chop vegetables for our shared soup snack. This important practical work activity helps develop the children’s fine motor skills and gives them a sense of joy when they see the vegetables they brought and prepared inside their soup. On Tuesday, we visited the creek. The children enjoyed skipping stones, digging wells in the sand, making little leaf rafts, and watching them float downstream. We visited the animals on the farm on Wednesday and were delighted to meet our new Angora rabbits. It was perfect timing as they were being sheared. The children were seen playing and running around with tufts of rabbit fur in hand. We also discovered two eggs laid by our lovely hens!
This week we plan to put on a play about the story the children have been listening to over the past week. The story is about a mother raincloud traveling far and wide searching for the perfect plot of land to drop off her little raindrops. She finally found a patch of ground and let them rain down to the earth, one by one. The smallest raindrop held tightly to mother raincloud and didn’t want to leave; however, after loving encouragement, she rained down and discovered a seed friend buried beneath the earth. She hugged her tightly, and the seed burst open with joy and grew into a lovely sunflower.
Announcements & Reminders:
Please pack an extra change of clothes in your child’s backpacks.
Hard-soled, closed-toe water shoes or old sneakers are required at Creekcess.
Upcoming Events:
8/26 Community Work Day 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
9/4 Labor Day (No School)
9/5 Joyful Beginnings and Kindergarten Curriculum Night 6 p.m.
9/6 Grades Curriculum Night 6 p.m.
Thank you for all that you do and for sharing your precious children with us.
Peace & Light,
Ki Fatima
