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Falling in Love with Fall

Just cool enough to bring a sweatshirt, but leave it hanging on the hook. That’s fall. Just warm enough to play without getting too hot to enjoy the darkening day.  That’s fall. Just messy enough to take turns sweeping the leaves but never care if they...
Halloween Walk Saturday Oct 26th – Harvest Time in the City

Halloween Walk Saturday Oct 26th – Harvest Time in the City

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Nature’s Building Blocks

Nature’s Building Blocks

Leave it to the Children… Two boys, both 2 years old, with very little speech still managed to communicate in their own fashion as they lifted and stacked very large rocks from our dry creek bed. [custom_frame_center] [/custom_frame_center] Discovering...

Inside or Outside, Nature is all around us in SUMMER!

The nature band, sticks and driftwood to drums and guitars, violins and microphone. Go kids! What boy doesn’t want to gaze into the fire? How many Moms get to slide down the sprinkler slide? We’d rate that a 10.0 landing! …and now for a little...

Summer Fun and a "pop" of Learning

At Caring Connection indoors and outdoors can sometimes blend into one, especially in the summer. Learning is not just fun…it’s gonna “pop” in the summer. We make an extra special effort to make summer ideas (our themes) more extravagant, more...

Earth Play on Earth Day

Nature provides enough opportunities for learning, measuring, experimentation and discovery. Opportunities for social interaction, cooperation and compromise. Taking risks within limits and finding success. Encouraging one another. Leading and following. Engineering...