Recently at Carrot Seed Preschool, this young rower built herself a boat and set off on an adventure singing…’Row, row, row your boat’!  

A few weeks ago, we had the perfect storm: a huge downpour of rain, followed by bright sunshine. Our puddles were ankle-deep, and the sun kept us warm and cozy!       Some of our friends decided to start building a river by filling a puddle and directing its course.      The tracked its progress, following its course until they reached the end.   
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This week we put out coloured vinegar and baking soda and watched as our children became amateur chemists! When I play with volcanoes, I’m developing fine motor skills… …social awareness… …and scientific curiosity.      “Mine’s a rainbow.”    “Mine is ice cream blue.”                                “Can I have some baking soda?” “Sure!”      “Let’s make the colours explode.”  “The red is exploding!”    “Hey, if
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At Carrot Seed, we believe in Inside/Outside Learning.    We explore nature inside…                                     …and we explore nature outside.    We get messy inside…                                                …and we get messy outside.      We build inside…                                       …and we build outside.    We explore water inside…                                             …and we explore water outside.    We role play inside…                                     
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Today two of our friends beckoned me to their table and said “Look at this kind of colour!” I asked them what colour it was, and one of them said “It’s green mixed with silver”, and the other one said “Maybe now it’s a green, or a grey.” Then somebody asked “What if we mix the silver with the purple?”     “Whoa, light purple!”    
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   “We need to decorate the house!”                              “I’ll get some tires.”      “We’re making cookies for Santa.”                    “I’ll make some for his reindeer!”    “Is that the cookie you made for me?”               “Uh, actually you just sat on your cookie.”      “Can somebody help me move the tire?”       “Hey, you’re blocking my oven!”              
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  P says as she’s approaching our outdoor ‘car’, “I’ll be the big sister, you (M) be the Dad and you (Q) be the Mom. Okay?”          Q answers, “Yes!” and M smiles. “Let’s go”, says P.    The drivers change seats and N approaches the car and climbs aboard.  P says, “you can be the little sister, okay?”  N smiles.  “Let’s eat,”
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Finger painting is a pleasurable, messy and creative art activity.  This activity, which involves much more than merely spreading paint with the fingers, should more accurately be called hand painting.   Finger/hand painting encourages children to make direct contact with the medium, there is no brush to separate the artist from paint. Children enjoy the cool, slimy texture!  

A few friends gathered food for their new home.   After eating their ‘lettuce’, B decided that they needed an oven in their new house. So he moved an oven in! “Now we need a tunnel entrance” declared T. T & T built the tunnel entrance, and then tried it out. Our new house!

A friend brings a piece of bubble wrap to the light table, saying, “This bubble wrap is mysterious on the light table.” The same child pauses, and then says, “What does mysterious mean?” His friend says, “Mysterious means mysterious.”      A few seconds later, the first child gasps and say, “I know what mysterious means! It means something is very, very odd!”