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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: September 2013
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. New day at Keep It Simple Farms! Today is the first day of the new drop off class for Tiny Treks at Keep It Simple Farms. This is a class with 2 teachers and up to 14 children who will get to experience the chickens, ducks, bunnies and bees in the environment of a restored salmon habitat from wetlands to woodlands. I am excited to take these kids on a nature adventure for 3-5 year olds. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ask us a question!
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: August 2010
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. The Outdoor Preschool is a success! A new nature preschool in Redmond is opening it's woods to kids beginning this September and we almost are full already! Every Tuesday and Thursday will be an outdoor exploration of a new kind-one where kids can make forts in the woods and investigate their natural world in any weather. If you can't join the preschool-join Tiny Treks. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth-While Questions and Answers. Tiny T...
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Sunday, June 2, 2013. How Do You Teach a Child to be Gentle? In our Tiny Treks classes we. Explore nature with young. Children. In one of our classes. We found some Roly Poly’s or. Pill Bugs. The children made a. Circle around the bugs and. Watched them as the uncurled. And moved slowly on the earth. They learned that when the Roly. Poly felt threatened it would curl. Up in a ball. One of the children. Held a bug in his hand. He was. Mesmerized. He stood there.
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: June 2013
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Sunday, June 2, 2013. How Do You Teach a Child to be Gentle? In our Tiny Treks classes we. Explore nature with young. Children. In one of our classes. We found some Roly Poly’s or. Pill Bugs. The children made a. Circle around the bugs and. Watched them as the uncurled. And moved slowly on the earth. They learned that when the Roly. Poly felt threatened it would curl. Up in a ball. One of the children. Held a bug in his hand. He was. Mesmerized. He stood there.
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: Worms!
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Thursday, March 7, 2013. We learned a new song about worms too. Said the thousand legged worm as he gave a little squirm:. Has anybody seen a leg of mine? For if it can't be found,. I'll have to hop around,. On the other nine-hundred ninety-nine! On the other nine-hundred ninety nine. For if it can't be found. I'll have to hop around,. On the other nine-hundred ninety-nine! When it came time to let the worms go-we spent time with math-how many worms were there?
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: February 2010
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Sunday, February 28, 2010. Reflections on "Tuning into the Media Tuning into your Kids"workshop. Our two day workshops allowed me to pause and check in with my own family and how we were doing in the "unplugging" department. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth-While Questions and Answers. Ask us a question! Tiny Treks Favorite Books! We're reviewing our favorite books for kids. Come take a look and see how to start your own Tiny Trek library. Tiny Treks in Chicago.
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: November 2012
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Monday, November 5, 2012. Do we want our kids just doing school? Dr Ken Ginsburg asked that question at an amazing talk in Winnetka on Friday night. The evening motivated me to rethink the questions I ask my children on a daily basis. As an educator, I know not to ask "How was your day? What grade did you get in English? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth-While Questions and Answers. Ask us a question! Tiny Treks Favorite Books! Tiny Treks in Chicago. If your kids ar...
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: November 2010
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Wednesday, November 10, 2010. Tiny Treks in the Winter. Obviously, it is more difficult to get outside in the late fall and winter. It is cold, dark and wet out there and sometimes I think our bodies tell us it is time to hibernate-just like the bears do. But with the right clothes, anything is possible. As an outdoor education teacher, I am outside for up to 4 hours a day, most days. Do I get cold? I won't make any of those mistakes again. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors: May 2010
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Monday, May 17, 2010. Tiny Treks begins a Preschool! As I research how to begin a drop-off preschool in the weather-prone Northwest-I ponder "what do I want these children to learn at this school? How would this work you might ask? We can build forts and create "art work" to hang in our forts. We can have outdoor tea parties and make art projects from the forest floor. We can research birds-using binoculars and a bird book. We can create a map and then f...Worth-Whi...
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Tiny Treks - Unplug with the Outdoors. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Earth Day/ Celebrate Spring. One of our family traditions is to head down to the beach for our own family earth day clean up. Each of our kids are given a bag to fill. There has been some baulking at this tradition in Chicago when Earth Day can be 20 degrees! In our Tiny Treks class this week, I gave each child a bag and they had to find the number of pieces of. By John Forster and Tom Chapin. One day she spun out of the sun. And pledge to ...