Noah

Noah........ohhh Noah....... what can I say. Keeping up to you is such a challenge some days!Your exuberance and imagination fill everyday with so much. Some days you open the door and you remind me of a Tasmanian whirlwind with the way you can instantly raise the bar on the activity level, the noise level, the excitement level, and bring everyone into your rough and tumble world of play. But then on some days, days like today, you sit beside at story time and blow me away by you reading a book to me! How did that happen!?!

Watching you grow and change from this round little baby who just sat outside with us on the grass and watched the world go by (taking notes I'm sure) to this confident, energetic, playful, smart, imaginative, silly and loving big grade 1er! This only reinforces the notion that I truly DO have the best job in the whole world! I thank all of the little people who have touched my life because thanks to you, it's not just a job, it's a privilege.

strawberry fields forever

Ahhhhh....... for me strawberry picking always marks the beginning of summer. While walking out to our spot to start picking we noticed how funny it seemed that every year it's someone different who gets to ride in the wagon with all the buckets because it's their turn to be the little kid.


I still think the berry field would make more of a profit if they weighed the children, not the buckets.
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This year was really neat because we found a hidden treasure amongst the strawberries.... a little bird nest with eggs!

a beach day

Our first trip to the beach for this summer was spent exploring the rocks, looking for baby crabs, building sand castles, feeling the warm summer sun on our bare toes as we squished them into the wet sand, and of course playing in waves and getting just a little wet!

One of the first things we discovered at the beach was a jelly fish swimming in the water close to the shore. we caught it in a bucket so everyone could have a chance to see it up close. That poor jellyfish was poked at for at least 20 minutes before we set him back into the ocean . Everyone had a great time at the beach even Hazel who got to play with a few dogs that we met while eating our picnic up on the grass field over looking the ocean.