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December is always a quick month at Farmstead with Winter Break. The theme of the month seemed to be rain and mud play. The kids love it when “Mud Mountain” gets good and muddy. They find many ways to play with the mud, whether it’s sliding down the hill, making mud balls, or mud pancakes. […]

November was exciting for the Explorers as Fall officially set in! We really got a first-hand experience of the Fall transition season in our forest classroom, watching more and more leaves fall every day. We enjoyed learning about the lunar eclipse with the full Beaver Moon this year, and the wide weather swings of Fall […]

October was a peaceful month of settling in and group play for the Explorers! October was ushered in with the second full moon of our school year, the Hunter Moon. The Hunter moon is named for the time of the year when our ancestors would hunt and stock up in preparation for the coming winter. […]

Back to school is always an exciting time of the year, and it’s no different at the Farmstead! The Explorers group is also a brand new class for older kids this year, and we have our own new classroom space on campus so everything is interesting and different, even for our returning students who moved […]

The biggest change the littlest learners have noticed this month is the distance we can see from our classroom. Very few leaves are left on the trees, allowing us to see almost the whole campus from our hill. The littlest learners have seen the sprouts playing in the chicken field all the way up to […]

The littlest learners have welcomed fall with open arms! The leaves have been falling more and more. They have become a large crunchy, crinkly, warm carpet in our classroom. The fresh fallen leaves are almost like a new toy to the students. Some endless creations and games can be made! Some of the littlest learner’s […]

We were welcomed into this new school year with warm sunny days, a harvest moon full of abundance, and new friends eager to explore the school. The first couple of weeks felt like summer. It was warm, plants and crops were abundant, and life was buzzing all around campus. The garden was full of delicious […]

One of the biggest changes that the Sprouts noticed this month was the leaves changing from orange, red, and yellow to brown and falling off the trees. Several Sprouts noticed that once the leaves were brown and on the ground, they were crunchy. Kids found all sorts of ways to play with the fallen leaves. […]

The changing of colors this month has been impressive! The kids have been noticing and pointing out how they have changed from green to yellow, melon, red, and brown. They have loved piling up the leaves and “selling” them in their shops. The Sprouts have also loved to run through the leaves and try to […]

The new school year has started, and all of our Sprouts, new and old, are quickly getting back into the swing of things. We have some very observant, curious, and creative Sprouts this year! Several Sprouts have been noticing the change in weather and have noticed some leaves are beginning to change color, and more […]