The Nature Preschool at Irvine was overjoyed to be back for the first full week in a what felt like forever! Teachers and children alike were ecstatic to feel some warmer impending spring temperatures! The past 2 weeks we have been focusing on keeping ourselves healthy. We have explored healthy eating, exercise, and our emotional health as well! Discussions, role play, and puppet shows got the children brainstorming about different feelings and how we deal with them!
Some special visitors from Pearlstone farm joined us and assisted the children in starting seedlings! The children will tend to them here for now. Later this spring we will bring them back to Pearlstone to plant them in the ground!
Some exciting news for Mrs. Sophie! This was her last week before she goes on pregnancy leave! We all can’t wait to meet her sweet baby girl! Her classes surprised here with a shower on her last days and all the students and families wished her the best! We love you, Mrs. Sophie and we know how lucky that little girl is to have you as a momma! Her substitute, Miss Liz, is overjoyed to be a part of the team and is quickly becoming loved by the children!
Check in next week as we dive two feet first into spring!
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- Seed Scavenger Hunt – Nuthatches
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- Farmer From Pearlstone
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- What did you find?
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- Working In Partners
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- How many did you find?
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- Inspecting his seed in the light!
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- Our children love to hold hands on hikes!
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- Friends!
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- Dissecting Scat
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- Exploring The Evaporator
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- She spotted a bird nest!
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- Self Portrait
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- Lovely!
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- Hanging out on a misty day!
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- More Hand Holding!
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- Sorting Seeds
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- Working together in the outdoor classroom!
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- Hauling Rocks
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- The Bluebirds surprised Mrs. Sophie with a goodbye baby shower!
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- Mr. Daniel came for a visit! His puppet shows are a great way to get the kids brainstorming about feelings!
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- What a huge hunk of ice!
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- Body Tracing!
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- Working in partners was so fun!
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- Time to decorate!
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- Mixing our own paint colors and picking out a name for our new colors!
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- Frog Bean Bag Toss
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- Balance Log
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- Mrs. Sophie holding her baby!
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- What a wonderful picture of Mrs. Sophie and her future little girl!
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- The Woodpecker class found this fur on the hike! I wonder what animal this came from?
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- Mrs. Sophie’s second surprise baby shower from the Woodpeckers!
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- Woodpecker Puppets!
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- Look at that block line! How many do you think are there?
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- Friends in the building area!
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- Mr. Daniel came to visit the Woodpeckers too!
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- Feeling Face Puppet!
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- Exploring Light
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- Mixing colors!
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- What should we name this color?
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- Tea Party!
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- Acting out the life of the seed with the Pearlstone farmers!
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- Hunting for seeds!
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- They sure have found a lot!
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- Wonderful Creation!
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- So many shapes!
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- Planting Seeds
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- We can’t wait to take them back to Pearstone!
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- Our sandbox got a little wet!
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- Smile Woodpeckers!
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- Lounging in the trees!
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- Looks Comfy!
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- Music in the outdoor classroom!
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- Scooting down the steep trails!
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- Another class exploring the evaporator!
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- Exploring how to make maple syrup without an evaporator!
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- The Hawks wanted to explore this fallen tree in the deep woods!
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- Someone got muddy!
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- Can you guess this feeling?
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- Self Portraits with Partners!
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- Making wind chimes with Mrs. Peggy!
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- Measuring our height!
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- More wind chimes! Throughout the week we switched up mediums! This was sponge painting!
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- Up Close!
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- Investigating an owl wing we found on the hike!
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- Snowmen!
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- Mixing a beautiful light blue!
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- Building!
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- Scavenging for Seeds!
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- What a need pattern!
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- Lining up his seeds!
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- He made a bridge with his body!
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- Poking the stream!
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- Going Fishing!
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- Singing the goodbye songs with our families at pick up time!
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- Looking good there, Mr. Dragon!
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- Mr. Daniel visits the Owls!
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- Mrs. Sophie sharing some bulbs!
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- That looks interesting!
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- How many seeds will the 4 of these guys find?
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- Time to plant!
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- What are you investigating?
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- What about you?
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- Making Bird Feeders
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- I’m sure the birds will appreciate it!
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- Hanging out on a fallen tree!
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- Tracing our bodies in the snow!
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- Let’s get clean!
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- The Blackbirds are mixing colors!
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- Beautiful!
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- Smile Princess!
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- Alligator smiles sure are big!
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- Happy smile!
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- Making some delicious snack!
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- Fishing for feeling faces!
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- The Pearstone farmers acting out the life of a seeds with the Blackbirds!
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- Self Portrait Time!
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- Searching For Seeds
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- Smiling upon finding a seed!
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- What do you think?
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- Saying hello to the hawk and owl!
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- Smiling in the last day of snow!
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- Look at that foggy meadow!
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- Sitting In Snow
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- Mmm! Oatmeal!
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- Making Oatmeal with Mrs. Paula!
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- Stir it up!
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- Snowy Smiles!
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- Playing in the wig-wam!
