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Beauty of our backyard 🍀🪵🪾☘️🌳🌿🪴🎋

Beauty of our backyard ☀️🦋🕷️🌳🌿🪴🍃

🦅 🦢 🐦 🐝☀️ Some activity ideas for toddlers to learn about birds

Today we celebrated 🇯🇵 こどもの日 (Kodomo no Hi – Children’s Day) with 🎏 こいのぼり (Koinobori)!
The children spent the week crafting colorful koi fish, practicing Japanese words, and enjoying music and movement together 🌸✨

Learning, creating, imagining 💛

We attended a conference by the United Federation of Teachers and discovered amazing games for 3K–2nd grade 🎓

Favorite: “Eat the Science” 🧠✨

New ideas coming to our classroom soon 🌿

お花見 🌸

Happy Earth Day 🌎 🌳

Pajama Day 💤

The children came in their cozy pajamas and brought their favorite stuffed toys — just like their bedtime routine at home 🤍

They practiced swaddling their toys using their own daycare blankets🧸

We also enjoyed reading looooots of books together 📚✨

Kids found some rocks while exploring our neighborhood the other day 🪨✨

Today, they chose their favorite ones based on shape and texture—feeling them, comparing them, and describing how they felt using Japanese onomatopoeia like zara zara (rough) and sara sara (smooth) 🇯🇵

Then we painted them 🎨

At the end, each child gave their rock a special name 💛
Some named theirs “Big,” some “Nontan,” some “Onigiri” because of the shape 🍙, and some “Aka” because they painted it red ❤️

Kids often follow routines at daycare… but at home, big feelings come out 🤍

At daycare, children have structure, clear expectations, and a group environment that helps them stay regulated.
At home, they are with their safe person—so they release everything they held in all day.

This is not “bad behavior” — it’s trust.
It means they feel safe, loved, and free to be themselves.