We celebrated our Autumn harvest today with some fairies painting the leaves on our trees. These little fairies have done so much painting the last couple of weeks. They painted their silk capes and many, many "leaves" or coffee filters that were cut into leaves. With glittering paintbrushes in hand today, we set off to paint some forest leaves and wound up finding some goodies for our bags! It was lovely as always, to be joined by parents for a special little lunch.
It is a joy to watch how the children challenge themselves to bring their bodies into fuller and more diverse movement. They certainly choose challenging work for themselves. Over and over they will climb the ladder, or go up the slide in reverse, or lug heavy blocks to build a road. They will carefully fill and refill the watering pots to water our newly sprouted seeds. Both inside and out, the children have all been involving themselves in building a fire engine and taking turns "driving" it. Each takes a turn, sometimes children don't even know they are the driver until they hear their friend say "Yeah, you're really driving! Whoa!!". Generally the firetruck becomes a house as well with sleeping babies that require everyone to "hush" and then later the site of some impromptu picnic.
As I mentioned before, the seeds we planted last week have begun to grow. The children water the little sprouts everyday. Our story this week is from Europe, about a little boy named Hugin who plants a turnip seed so that he can make a lantern for Halloween. The children may not relate to turnip carving, but they love how the animals from the forest each come out in turn to help him pull the turnip, until they are all pulling "but the turnip wouldn't budge an inch!". But when clever little mouse reminds Hugin that he must ask the root gnome, all is set aright and the gnome pops out saying he's been pulling on the other end the whole time! So they try again and out it pops, with everyone falling down and having a laugh. Hugin has in his hands the biggest turnip ever seen.
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