Early Childhood Programs Blog

4/23/2019 Happy Earth Day!  Earth Day was on Monday but we celebrated it today with some citizen science at an Irvine pond.  Before heading out on our long hike, we… Read more »

The Back Ponds This week of Forest Dreamers went so quickly, probably due to the fact that there was so much going on every day! As we gathered today, we… Read more »

Streams and Ponds! Every day changes are taking place at Irvine! Forest Dreamers set out quickly for the back ponds in search for signs of life. We were not disappointed!… Read more »

4/2/2019 Over the last few weeks we have been learning about land artist Michael Grab who uses rocks to make amazing, gravity defying structures.  Today we transitioned to a new… Read more »

A Day in the Glen Oftentimes in Forest Dreamers, we leaders struggle with the decision to let the children decide our day. Today, the children were VERY focused on the… Read more »

Engineers at Work Recently I read an article about the importance of fort building. Kids learn problem solving skills (“How do you make the corners stronger?”) and they practice using… Read more »

3/26/2019 Today we introduced a new and fascinating land artist, Michael Grab.  Michael Grab creates art by delicately stacking rocks in mind-blowing positions.  The balancing feats he pulls off look… Read more »

The Algae Ponds This Forest Dreamer class LOVES water! I don’t think I can say this enough 🙂 Whenever we have the chance, they request to play in the ponds… Read more »

Our First Frog! Today was an AWESOME day for our Forest Dreamers to be on the trails! The forest is waking up and the animals are starting to emerge. Every… Read more »

3/19/2019 In anticipation of meeting our first land artist of Spring we started introducing rocks and minerals.  Can you guess what natural material our land artist uses?  Find out next… Read more »