Garden Chronicles : April 17th, 2012

 

Lots of hard work from tribe families and Mark and Suzi from Farm 2 Family has only given the beginnings of a perfect space for the children to learn and explore freely.


Watching the garden evolve brings back memories of last years garden adventures and how every week was a surprise--new plants growing, new critters, and surprises left from friends.

Everyone worked hard.  No one even noticed the carnival in the background.

And now we have a place to rest.

Houses left for the fairies.

 What else would we do on a hot day?

See some of us in the background flying our plarn/plastic bag kite!

We are pulling some more tinkering opportunities into our day--sometimes it can be an wonderful experience when none of us know what we are doing and we work together through trial and error.

I think some wind for the kite would have been helpful.

tinkering away

We even had time to play some

 games and learn some Spanish

 

We even managed some down time for lunch, 

phone calls, shopping, and...

Some 

Planting!!!

Even a vulture came by to see if he could clean up anything for us.

I know it looks like we are having fun, want to join us?  

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Garden Chronicles: April 3rd, 2012

Well it must have been a successful day in the garden:

The kids are exhausted and some are sleeping...check!

                                                         My feet are filthy...check!

                                                 I can't get the dirt out from under my nails...check!

                      And my neck is red...check

Sure, missed this feeling--it must be SPRING!

We got in some last minute 

egg dying!

Thank you Mr. Blake!

We made some more bean pole teepees!

We worked on the playgarden!

  

Someone wanted to continue their digging to the center of the Earth.

And we had some quiet time working with manipulatives.

 Sorry about missing last week, I have not missed 

getting together with our tribe in a long time.  

Fortunately the party continued without me and while

 I have even less pictures from last week than this week--always a wonderful sign that we are too busy to click pics--we 

can see the fruits of their labor growing strong.

 

I know it looks like we are having fun, want to join us?  

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Our Trip to the Zoo!

If you have not made it over to the Metro Richmond Zoo you are missing out on a day of surprises and joyful giggling from little ones all the way up to us old folks.  We have made this trip to the zoo several times but never have we had as much fun--everything is better with good friends!

Here are a few pics from our day!

We explored all the animals,  not just the zoo animals.

Nursing baby gibbon.

Tiger with a "licking the fence" habit.

Camel feeding time???

Feeding time at the gator pond.

Beautiful!

Budgie

Some of the gang

Some more of the gang

Those Appleseeds...always trying to take animals home.

Emu

More un-zoo animals.

More Beauty!

No interest in watching the tigers.

Giraffe

 Feeding 

and 

Love!

Feeding the budgies, 

we sooo need to 

build a big cage with

 tribe so we can

 do this all day!

Human Treats

Peacocks

Did you know that lemurs meow?

Gotta love some goats!

Want to join us for an adventure, keep an eye on our calendar or contact melanie@alifeoflessons.com