George’s Jungle Child Care/Preschool

 

Continuing to grow our outdoor classroom has been fun and challenging. So many learning opportunities for the children and the adults. This year we added new items such as a water barrel, a greenhouse and a scale. The greenhouse has been a big hit, we grew plants, and 15 different types of herbs. The kids were in charge of all the work to help make the greenhouse a success. We also added the water barrel that served several purposes, it watered our plants and our garden and helped with the needed water for our mud kitchen in preparing the unique food that came out of our Mud cafe. One of our parents built the scale for us, we ended up putting it into the mine area, where they weighed gems, stones and numerous others cool finds.

We decided to add a few more areas to our bee and butterfly area. A larger milkweed area, and two additional bird feeding stations, and put in a second bee watering station. One thing we noticed this summer was the children were never bothered by any bees in other play areas, the bees seemed very content in having their own area to keep refreshed. The children learned to be careful of bees but also learned how important it is to care for them and keep them safe. We would love to add some chickens next year but we will see how that goes!