Spring has sprung at Blue Leaf! The daylight hours grow longer each day, and so does our students’ capacity for play. We have been lucky enough to be almost completely outside all day the past two weeks, and the children are taking full advantage of the good weather! Our basketball hoop has been very busy, with children taking turns trying (and succeeding!) at making baskets. The bikes are all in use, being ridden with renewed gusto by children who had lost interest during the cold winter months. They are even starting to learn to pump their legs on the swings to go higher than any push, and help each other out with how to get started.
In seeing all this big body play, our teaching team took it upon themselves to create obstacle courses for the children to traverse. Cones, ramps, and even a rope ladder were used to make the course.
On another note, all this excitement has these children tuckered out! More rest has been incorporated into play in the last few weeks as the children sort out their spring energy. Sleeping kittens, sleeping babies, and more have all made an appearance in play. Rest time has found a good groove, the children are getting comfortable laying on their mat without sleeping, just taking the day in.
We have noticed that our very first flowers of spring, crocuses, are blooming. It has been very hard to sit back and watch them grow, but the beautiful colors make it very worth it! Our circle this week has focused on the coming of spring. The song lyrics found below are ones you may wish to sing with your little ones to celebrate the seasons changing:
Spring Has Sprung
Spring has sprung said the bumblebee
How do you know said the old oak tree
I saw a yellow daffodil
Dancing with the fairies on the windy hill!
Spring is Coming
Spring is coming, spring is coming
Birdies build your nests
Weave together straw and feather
Each doing your best
Spring is coming, Spring is coming
Flowers are coming too
Crocus, lilies, daffodilies
All are coming through
Spring is coming, Spring is coming
All around is fair
Shiver, quiver on the river
Joy is everywhere
My Lady Spring
My Lady Spring is dressed in green
She wears a poppy crown
And little baby buds and twigs
Are clinging to her gown
The sun shines if she laughs at all
And when she weeps the raindrops fall
My Lady Spring, My Lady Spring
