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Appleseeds Begins!

Thank you for visiting! This blog is to reflect on our weeks here together at Appleseeds Home Nursery. I am excited to see how the year unfolds with the changing of the seasons. I hope this blog gives the reader a better sense of what our day looks like and why I believe play is so crucial to child development.

March/April 

4/23/2015

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It has been a very busy spring indeed! We are now firmly set in our growing season, with lots of planting and digging happening outside. For our Spring's Birthday celebration, the children made baskets with wheat grass growing inside. It was a good setting for their homemade "egg cup planter" and felted butterflies, to go along with our story for that week. We told of a little Easter egg who is never found and fears he's been forgotten. As the seasons change, he becomes cracked from an acorn falling on him, but he's given a cozy blanket of leaves and snow. After a cozy winter's rest, he finds Spring has arrived and he has new life inside of him; in the form of forget-me-nots growing in his shell! He is then visited by busy bee and finds happiness in the springtime meadow. 

The children have also heard our story of Old Mrs. Gnome, who tends a beautiful garden. One night, a fairy mother flies into the garden and sets her baby fairy down into a tulip to sleep, while she goes to dance nearby in a fairy ring. The fairy mother knows she'll be safe in Mrs. Gnome's garden. Mrs. Gnome awakes to the sound of tinkling bells, so she goes out into her moonlit garden to see where the sound is coming from. She finds that it is the crying of the little fairy baby, and so she rocks the tulip gently and the baby falls back asleep. She watches over the baby and the fairy mother returns. It is a sweet story of happy reunions. The children enjoyed peeking into our own tulips as well. 

The children's play has truly expanded to include deeper story plots. They have begun to arrange stories using our silks and blocks, animals and people. Sometimes they repeat the stories I've told, and sometimes they create their own. The ability to storytell allows the brain to work in a flexible manner, allowing for creative thinking of course, but also problem solving and abstraction. When others become involved, it requires collaboration with others, with many people working through ideas and problems together. 
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    I am the owner of a small, play and nature based home nursery located in Durham, NC. My goal is to provide a cozy nursery for children that allows them to play using all of their senses both indoors and out. I also hope to bring families and children together through seasonal activities and celebrations. 

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