CASCADIA ELEMENTARY 3RD GRADE GARDEN PROGRAM
Another week of Seed balls! Well just as messy as last, except this time we did well to get all our students through every activity! There was plenty of sun this week too which made everything go by so nicely! The children were obedient and diligent to get every task handed to them done, as we did the same rotation as the week prior. Myself in the annual garden, Jessica in the perennial garden, and Rowan and the seed ball station. We did discover as we got to school that some of the seeds from the week before had already begun to sprout from the ball! So this week we will be keeping them in an even darker place to hopefully not encourage any growth while we are not there.
Tiny Trees Outdoor Preschool
This has been one of my favorite weeks at Tiny Trees. We took a new adventure at Jefferson Park and explored the skate park! What an awesome classroom they have, I wish as a preschooler I was exploring parks, from trees to concrete skate parks. Well it took about 20 minutes to reach the park, though it really wasn’t that far, their tiny little legs just can’t take such long strides as mine! When we got to the skate park there were just a few skaters, who appeared to be trying to play it cool, as if they weren’t being oogled over and cheered for by preschoolers. But the skaters gave quite the performance and the kids were very impressed. One of the boys told me that he has a skateboard and asked if he could skate with me sometime, I said maybe in a few years and laughed. When the skateboarders left the kids jumped into the skate park! they slide down the ramps on their backs and bellies, playing games as if the ground was lava. They of course noticed some graffiti and asked the assistant teacher why someone drew on the ground. “Well,” she said, “it is not good to paint on public property, because the park has to clean it up. But,” she goes on, “sometimes this is a way of civil disobedience and a method of communication.” It seemed to go over their heads, “ohhhh,” one said as he went to go back to playing immediately, but they seemed to get the point that it is inappropriate and not something they should do. I really appreciated the way the teacher handled the situation, not directly condemning the act, rather giving the full scope of what graffiti is in some watered down way. Unfortunately though I have been struggling with the children snatching my hat off my head and attempting to play keep away with me. Over the past few weeks it happens at least once a week, and I attempt to ignore it and allow the hat to return to me, usually through the children getting bored and simply handing it back. But that doesn’t always work. This week I found my hat had gotten ripped, and I wasn’t entirely sure how to handle the situation. Obviously I did not see it happen, so I assumed it was an accident that that the kids didn’t notice it happened. But I did not tell the teachers either, that is something I will have to do, to find out how to best deal with the situation in the future.
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