As our oldest group of children go off to kindergarten, an email exchange from a few months ago comes to mind. Chris from Animal Embassy left us with several tad poles in the spring and one of our families, brought some water from their pond to create a habitat in a tank in the Discovery Room. [...]
We introduced regular yoga classes last year. After two years for many of the children, they have learned many basic poses and phrases. Jeannie, our yoga teacher, provides images of animals and nature to help the children visualize the postures. Some of the favorites are “cat, cow” , “down dog”, “tree” and probably the most [...]
Each day last week our classes had the chance to learn about — and create — different habitats and see — and touch — many of the animals that call the habitats home. We added a clear water table to the Discovery Room to allow children to see above, beside and below. On Monday, Chris [...]
Summer fun at CCDC includes music, water play and walks in the fields. This week, one of Coach John’s water play activities involved throwing wet sponges at him! Coach John is a retired phys ed teacher who continues to have fun and his joy is contagious. Take a look at the photo albums posted in [...]
Coach John set up our own water park last week — just in time for a mini-heatwave. What fun we all had! More photos can be found in Eileen’s Photos!
It has become a tradition for our graduating class to take a field trip in late May/early June. We take them to Burying Hill Beach accompanied by Chris Evers from Animal Embassy. We hire a school bus — a big one — to take us there and,frankly, the bus ride is a highlight. Though the [...]
As you all surely know, our auction gala is this Saturday, April 10 at 7:00 pm. Here are a few details: The theme is “Broadway Babies” with Broadway, Times Square, NYC decorations. The highlight of the decorations will be 5×7 color head shots of all of our children — stars one and all! You can [...]
The topic for our visit on March 10 was “Nature’s Builders and Excavators”. Chris showed the children a nest with an egg and a bee hive and showed the children a stick that beavers use to build a dam. They saw two turtles — a baby and a bigger red foot tortoise and a dutch rabbit that dig [...]
Chris came with snakes of all sizes: two baby carpet pythons and an adult, the Daddy of the two babies named “Magic” from Australia, a milk snake from Mexico named “leche”. The preschool groups also got to see and touch some of the snake eggs which they discovered are not fragile like chicken eggs and Chris [...]
What fun we all had on the hill today! You could hear the hoots of exitement and joy from across the parking lot. The children laughed and shouted “Let’s do that again!” or “Awesome” as they came to a halt. The Preschool 4′s were the most adventurous going over the “speed bump” someone had created much [...]