Nature Play

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Jump-Start Your Garden: Winter Sowing Mini Greenhouse Method for Educators #23

Learning Beyond Walls: Outdoor Classroom Inquiry in Home Childcare #22

Children Extracting Color from Nature: A Lesson in Science, Art, and Wonder #20

Planting Radish in Our Home Daycare: A Story of Growth, Taste & Wonder (episode 18)

How Our Home Daycare Reused a Fallen Tree for Creative Outdoor Art (Episode 17)

Coffee Grounds & Magnolia Mornings in the Mud Kitchen | Episode 16

Drawing Flowers in the Field: A Simple Spring Morning in Home Childcare (Episode 15)

Slowing Down to Learn: The Power of Nature in Early Childhood Education (episode 12)

How We Raise Monarch Caterpillars in My Home Childcare (episode #11)

Outdoor Learning for Home Childcare: Process Art with Chalk Paint (episode 9)

How to Grow Apple Tree from Seeds: Kids Hands On Science and Nature Education

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Aug 19

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Hi Neighbor, I wish every child could have the opportunity to simply be a child and learn through the affordances of outdoor discoveries.
#outdoorlearning
#naturebasedlearning
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Small environments offer something deeply valuable—time, intimacy, flexibility, and closeness to everyday life. Hands on learning with freedom to explore and no time for worksheets.
Sometimes the richest learning experiences are the simplest🍃
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#smallspaceliving
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Aug 17

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Your environment invites children to explore, create, problem-solve, add new knowledge to old, and gain mastery.

Your backyard is enough to create spaces for young children to explore, discover, and simply be children.

It’s the language of childhood.

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Proud Mama Moment 💛

My daughter graduated from high school earlier this summer and received a full Trustee Scholarship to college, where she will be studying American Sign Language (ASL).

It’s such a full-circle moment—she is the reason I started my home childcare 17 years ago. She grew up watching me use sign language with the babies in my care, giving them a way to communicate before they had the words to speak.

I’ve always seen her use the signs and knew she was interested in ASL, but I never realized how seriously she was considering it as a career path. She has told others, “My mom spoke to nonverbal kids, and I want to do the same.”

To my fellow home educators: your children are watching you. I want you to know the value of the work you do for others—and to love and value the career you have chosen.

The little girl who watched her mama sign with babies is now heading to college to study ASL herself.

We are so incredibly proud of you, our little Sunny 🌞. Congratulations, my Trustee Scholar. Go make your mark. ❤️

#proudparents
#trusteescholarship
#smartkids
#homechildcare
#proudmama

Proud Mama Moment 💛

My daughter graduated from high school earlier this summer and received a full Trustee Scholarship to college, where she will be studying American Sign Language (ASL).

It’s such a full-circle moment—she is the reason I started my home childcare 17 years ago. She grew up watching me use sign language with the babies in my care, giving them a way to communicate before they had the words to speak.

I’ve always seen her use the signs and knew she was interested in ASL, but I never realized how seriously she was considering it as a career path. She has told others, “My mom spoke to nonverbal kids, and I want to do the same.”

To my fellow home educators: your children are watching you. I want you to know the value of the work you do for others—and to love and value the career you have chosen.

The little girl who watched her mama sign with babies is now heading to college to study ASL herself.

We are so incredibly proud of you, our little Sunny 🌞. Congratulations, my Trustee Scholar. Go make your mark. ❤️

#proudparents
#trusteescholarship
#smartkids
#homechildcare
#proudmama ...

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