Child Care Connection
The trees we planted the first year in our Nature Explore Classroom have grown so much. It has gone back to the beautiful forest type area it was with our old trees we had to replace. The children’s favorite area is our riding on the cars and playing in our wooded area. We added more digging and dirt playing tools as well this year.
The children’s favorite area is our beautiful new stage that they helped to work on as we repurposed out porch materials. We have learned how to care for our plants daily. The new children in our care this year have loved the beautiful wooded area. Just being inside that area gives everyone so much peace and is such a favorite. We added sun sails and the posts this year to our playground area so the children can play on the equipment no matter what time of day or weather. The children have loved this addition.
As you enter our yard you can see all our beautiful fruit trees. These trees are perfect for each season. In spring we see gorgeous blossoms, in summer the start of fruit on our trees, in fall the beauty of picking your own fruit. The children love the cherries and early summer apples, pears at the end of the summer and the yellow delicious, black beauty and red delicious apples in the fall.
You can play on the small hill all seasons. Summer, sliding down the hill and in the winter a different experience sliding down in their snow pants. On the left is our large area for riding bikes, pulling wagons, using chalk, and of course playing in the dirt the leaves and the wooded area. We have a table the children have made many meals on. The grass, leaves, sticks and dirt work great.
The children can turn to the right and play in our sand shed which stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter because of a unique design from one of our daycare families. I loved playing in the yard growing up and I have worked daily letting the children have all those fun exploring experiences that I had as a child. We have an area for the children to paint and color. They love to play school as well.
Around the corner is a cupboard full of music selections from infant to older children’s books. The children have a large variety of blocks from huge Lego blocks to medium and small sizes. They can also choose the large Lincoln logs to build cabins and houses to play in. There is a large variety of balls the children can choose as well. We put up 2 more tether balls that can be used as a clothes lines as well as to hang wet water clothes. This has worked out great having a clothes line for the children and it teaches them how important it is to care and clean up their belongings, with help. There is so much room to play.
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