We have begun our season of giving this week. The children each put a little something into each of three baskets to take to my neighbors as a holiday gift, and also to thank them for their patience with not-so-occasional loud "VROOOOOMING" coming from our "vehicles". While we were out, a visitor left a sack of parcels on the doorstep! We opened it and found little packages for each child with a clementine, cookies, a bell and a note. Turns out St. Nicholas had his eye on us! The children enjoyed the sweet little snack and hearing what St. Nick had to say about each one of them in the note.
We've been spending more time out in the forest. The children have loved crawling or chasing one another through a hay maze. We've been working on trying to forge a path through the woods, so they like to help me pull up the weeds growing around. Sometimes, we get lucky pulling up all the ivy and recently uncovered a little salamander in his home! Today we found a snail and the children sat patiently and waited until it came back out of his shell and had a look around, but no one was too interested in letting it crawl on their hands. With children being so busy outside, it's amazing that they can also stop for quite awhile and wait for a creature to slowly emerge from its shell. It's a good reminder to us as parents in a fast-moving world!
This week and last, we have been unearthing some more sweet potatoes. It's exciting to dig up something that is so bright pink! You never know how big it will be and they require some digging but it is worth it to find a little "treasure". I also had some help putting a bit of treasure into the ground as we planted some bulbs last week. We tucked little "bulb babies" into the ground and covered them up with a little dirt blanket. Hopefully they'll come out in spring dressed in their prettiest clothes!
With our short week last week, we did a little Thanksgiving baking of pumpkin pies. Going along with this season of sharing and giving, I am telling the story of Stone Soup, about a man who visits a town where no one helps one another or welcomes him. He begins to cook a soup, using only a stone. Out of curiosity, the towns people come one by one and add a little something to the pot. In the end, they've made a delicious soup together. The man leaves the town a happier and more loving place.
With our short week last week, we did a little Thanksgiving baking of pumpkin pies. Going along with this season of sharing and giving, I am telling the story of Stone Soup, about a man who visits a town where no one helps one another or welcomes him. He begins to cook a soup, using only a stone. Out of curiosity, the towns people come one by one and add a little something to the pot. In the end, they've made a delicious soup together. The man leaves the town a happier and more loving place.
The children made some candy canes this week by threading some red and white beads onto a folded over pipe cleaner. They've been using the candy canes in their kitchen play, but were eager to bring the ones they made home to hang on their Christmas trees. Understandable. We have been shaking some jingle bells for some of our songs at circle time and they will soon be making their own to play. There will be much jingle jangling to come in the nursery!
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