Explorations Child Care
We want to start off by thanking the families of my program for helping with the care and maintenance of our outdoor classroom. Our program wouldn’t be as successful as it is without their support.
This year we experienced a tornado come through our neighborhood which caused a lot of damage to homes and tree loss. A lot of our neighbors’ 100-year-old trees which helped provide shade to my program were lost. We had to come up with some new shade options for our space. Our solutions were three large shade cloths that covered the sand pit area, the art area and the building area. The other areas still have shade cover from trees that withstood the storm. We had damaged materials and lost some of our art area. Thanks to the families in my program for their donations and help we were able to recover most of the items we lost.
In the mist of the sadness of the tornado we felt the love and support of the families in our program come together to ensure their children had the program they were accustomed too. I was also able to add a Math Area and Science Area where we utilize nature loose-parts.
With no drought restrictions upon us this year we were able to plant our vegetable garden and harvest tomatoes and peppers.
We love seeing the children learn and grow in our outdoor space and sharing our explorations with community on our facebook page.
