Fun and learning at Blackies Pasture.

Things have been as busy as ever here at Cookies n Dirt. I sent a new calendar of activities and events home with everyone and I hope you are enjoyed it. We were outside as much as we could be in the past two weeks as there has been some sun after all of the rain. We even got a chance to do some water play with few clothes in the middle of February! We took the parachute to the park and had our park friends join us for circle time outside. We have also spent a lot of time lifting rocks up to see all of the creatures that live beneath them. We find salamanders, grub worms, rolly pollys( I'm sure that's the technical name for them), earthworms, ants, slugs, and pincher bugs. Last week we went to the beach at Blackie's Pasture and tried lifting the rocks along the shore. We didn't find bugs but we found SOOO many sand crabs. We spent and hour watching them scurry when they were uncovered. We learned that the birds that we see on the bay all the time like to eat these little crabs. We think we saw baby sand crabs that looked like little slugs too but we have to research whet they look like on the computer. We also found a sea anemone that squirted water at us. As if that weren't great enough hundreds of lady bugs are hatching all over Blackie's. We checked those out for quite awhile. We collected and counted shells, rocks, and sticks and ran as fast as we could along the shore.We were a sandy mess and my car is still a sandy mess- A messy day is a fun day and we live in a learning paradise!!
Our friends have been busy working new puzzles. We also got some alphabet stampers that the children love to use.
Our little friend Dillon has discovered that hand washing can be so much fun with lots of foam soap and the ability to turn the faucet on and off all by himself. He spends a lot of time at the sink!