December is a short month for Explorers at the Farmstead. We started the month with the last full moon of the year, the Cold Moon or Quiet Moon, known locally by the Cherokee as the Snow Moon. The Cold moon symbolizes the end of the year and a time to look back on the year’s […]
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December’s Littlest Learners Nature Notes
In December, we welcomed the quiet moon. The quiet moon reminds us to “be.” Be content with this moment, be thankful, and be still. The moon tells us to find ways to maintain peace and honor the light within us. The littlest learners filled their December days with lots of mud play. It seemed like […]
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December’s Sprouts Nature Notes
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. […]
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November’s Farmstead Explorers Nature Notes
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 […]
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October’s Farmstead Explorers Nature Notes
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. […]
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September’s Farmstead Explorers Nature Notes
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 […]
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November’s Littlest Learners Nature Notes
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 […]
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October’s Littlest Learners Nature Notes
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 […]
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September’s Littlest Learners Nature Notes
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 […]
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November’s Sprouts Nature Notes
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. […]
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