Water play is fun any day of the year. At Tiny Treks I often carry in my backpack some kind of cups or bowls. When I get them out the kids just begin to fill them. It might be with stones or dirt or leaves or water. But they always are eager to fill them up. I think this is like the story of giving your child an expensive toy and what they are most excited about is the box. So all I need is the outdoors, a stream and some plastic bowls and I've got kids excited to fill up the bowls, water the plants along the side of the stream or throw the water back into the stream and watch it splash. This week the water play went on for a long time. So long that one of the kids said-"Teacher Ann-Its time to hike!" So then, I interrupted the play of the other kids so we could continue exploring. But it lasted a good long time.
Tiny Treks Outdoor Preschool has a certain place along the trail that it loves at Keep It Simple Farms. There is an area where the trees are all deciduous and easy to climb on and around. The kids have games that they play every time they arrive. Here is one of the trekkers "driving a car" on the tree. "Beep Beep!"
During January we are learning about weather-so we got to have fun with shaving cream, water and eye droppers full of blue food coloring. The idea was to add blue water to the "clouds" of shaving cream to see how much water a cloud could accept before it "rained". The kids were very intent, watching the shaving cream fill up with the blue food coloring and then raining down into the jar. We all had fun cleaning up as well!
Next week we are learning about the wind. I'm looking forward to using straws and fans to teach how wind moves things around.
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