Spring is the season of noticing and it is perfect for our home childcare.
The dandelions and violets are carpeting the grass now—soft purples and sunny yellows weaving across the green. Life is emerging again, and a certain beauty follows a long winter.
Yesterday, I planned a simple but meaningful day for us. I asked families to send their children in comfortable clothes and shoes, knowing we would spend the morning outdoors. The plan is to visit the nature grounds, observe what we see, journal, and spend some time playing at the park.
children sitting on a blanket drawing flowers of a dandelion field
If you’ve been here for a while, you know that families send lunches from home now, so I no longer have to hurry back to prepare meals or stress about the night before. Read more about that shift. It’s a shift that has given us more freedom and ease.
So today, we skipped our usual indoor circle time and headed straight out into the wild.
The focus of our morning was simple: draw what we see.
With crayons in hand, the children nestled into the grass and began to draw the flowers that carpeted the ground.
Yellow bursts.
Purple sprigs.
Green blades.
Life is everywhere.
children flower art
I’ll share more about our nature walk and discoveries in future posts. But today, this slow, simple moment of drawing in a field of flowers was enough.
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Hope your week is good to you. Much love Miss Sue, your educator in the trenches with you.
