Winter 2024 - Week One

January 5, 2024  •  Vol. 16

Greetings Honeysuckle Families and Happy New Year!

Such a delight to be back in the garden with the Society this week.

On Tuesday, we had fun catching up over snacks and then did a nature walk around the block to see how our trees have been doing over the break. Then we met the planters in our 4th street courtyard and each Society member got to adopt one which was very exciting. The children wanted to know which plants were in their planters and instantly started taking care of them! I was so impressed. Finally we returned to the 3rd street courtyard to work on new types of weather to add to our felt calendar. The children are always dazzling me with their ideas, and one Society member had the idea to add moon phases to the calendar as well, which we will!

On Wednesday, we read a Gail Gibbons book about weather during snack time which inspired a great discussion about different types of weather adventures we have had. Then we visited our trees and our new adopted planters in the 4th street courtyard. Finally we returned to 3rd street and assigned different yarn colors to different temperature ranges for our Weather Scarf Project. The children also learned how to take a skein of wool and turn it into a ball that you can work with for knitting.