school – Catching Caterpillars https://catchingcaterpillars.com Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:15:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://catchingcaterpillars.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-Catching_Caterpillars_square_5431-32x32.jpg school – Catching Caterpillars https://catchingcaterpillars.com 32 32 175368967 science afternoon… https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2020/04/science-afternoon.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-afternoon Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:15:39 +0000 https://catchingcaterpillars.com/?p=6427 Read more]]>

This was such a fun science project that I kept seeing on Pinterest! Don’t you love it when you finally do one of your pins! It was quite easy and the kids learned and had a blast and so did we… well until clean up time! yikes!
It teaches the kids and us about rain clouds and how rain happens…

Rain Cloud Experiment
-cylinder vase or something similar
-water
-shaving cream
-food coloring

Fill your vase with water and leave just a bit of room on top for your “cloud.” Squirt the shaving cream into your cloud on top. Feel free to get a little messy! Now have fun with your food coloring and drip the rain onto the “clouds!” After let your kids swirl the colors just for fun which makes really pretty designs! Oh and you may want to do this project outside in your not so favorite clothing! ha!

]]> 6427 Jog-a-Thon and some pickling!!! https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2017/03/jog-a-thon-and-some-pickling.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jog-a-thon-and-some-pickling Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:40:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2017/03/06/jog-a-thon-and-some-pickling/

so many fun things happening in January!!! A jog-a-thon and pickles! ha!! We’ve been quite busy with so many fun activities around school… it’s nice to have a cozy night of pickling cucumbers every once in awhile, don’tcha think! 🙂
]]> 85 Field Trips and end of year fun! https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2016/06/field-trips-and-end-of-year-fun.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=field-trips-and-end-of-year-fun Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:21:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2016/06/21/field-trips-and-end-of-year-fun/ Read more]]>

The end of the school year… came and went… or should I say… stayed and went… dragged and went… whew! Is anyone else still dizzy from all of the fun!!!? I don’t remember being a kid with this much end of school year excitement,… do you? I remember my mom bringing a couple of boxes of orange creme popsicles and we all met up by the playground at a picnic table in the shade… hahaha! It worked for us… probably still world be sufficient… but now there’s pinterest…. and I’m kinda a big fan.
Field trips to Big Cat Habitat, Myakka State Park, Violin recitals, school play, teacher presents, field days, bubble parade, Jungle Book day, Garden Party! I could go on and on… It was SO MUCH FUN!!! but I’m just coming around to realizing I was in a trance of ribbons, paper napkins, popsicles, water balloons, and flowers up to my elbows! 
You know you’re in an amazing school when your children are in tears the night before the last day… what an amazing school year it has been for us! The kids were so sad that it was over… they wouldn’t have their teachers again, maybe they won’t be in the same class with the same friends… the class will be different, they will learn new things… It’s hard with change… it’s hard for me too… I don’t want the time to go fast… This year it felt right because I was so careful to take it all in… but still… did I blink a little too hard… Is it really true… next school year… a second and fifth grader… what?!?! 
]]> 113 Happy Hearts Day and a wiggly tooth! https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2016/04/happy-hearts-day-and-a-wiggly-tooth.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-hearts-day-and-a-wiggly-tooth Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:50:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2016/04/20/happy-hearts-day-and-a-wiggly-tooth/ Read more]]>


I love Valentine’s Day at school! those little itty bitty cards and the anticipation of handing them out! I think my favorite part was in the evening while filling them out the girls writing “your friend” to the boys and “love” to the girls… you don’t want them to get the wrong idea right! hahahaha so cute!
and oh those conversation candy hearts… aren’t the purple ones the best!
I was so glad to help out in my 4th grader’s class… as she gets older I knew this time is fleeting and soon she won’t have these sorts of parties… so instead of crying about it, enjoy it!

this was a time that yup you just have to sit back and let it sink in for a minute… the right of passage of losing that top front tooth… that changes that baby face into little girl face… things change and so do you… but instead of being sappy these days I’m choosing to just be happy! why not! 
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what a fun end of the year… 
great field trips!
a school play! Isabelle was a mouse in Cinderella!
shucking corn! legos!
even a kindergarden graduation… weepweep…. that was a hard one…
we made it! a wonderful school year and a beautiful ending…
now we are back in school and smiling big!

]]> 151 Preschool Graduation… *sigh* https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2014/06/preschool-graduation-sigh.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preschool-graduation-sigh Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:30:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2014/06/16/preschool-graduation-sigh/ Read more]]>

ohhhh man… where to begin… where to start… It’s hard to just write about a school… a place that touched your life… your children’s lives…
Last week we had to say farewell to a family… a place we called home for both of our girl’s first school… I think it’s so hard to let go of this magical place because that’s exactly what it is…. it’s exactly what childhood should be… what school should be… it’s a place where children are respected and treated with love and treated like they are something… and not a bother…
This school is on the New College Campus so there are a lot of college students that volunteer and work for the school…
I have watched college students be so inspiring to these children… young adults treat these children like their own… Hugging is aloud… teachers tossing kids in the air… teachers running until they are out of breath… so much happy energy surrounds every ounce of this school…

yep… I pretty much had to hold my breath here… 

right about here I cried like a little baby… and hid behind my camera… the love these teachers have for these children breaks my heart in half… but the amazing beginning they have will stay with them forever…
]]> 180 some fun from the Springtime… https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2014/06/some-fun-from-the-springtime.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-fun-from-the-springtime Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:45:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2014/06/16/some-fun-from-the-springtime/ Read more]]>

Cecilia has lately really been interested in art… she has and art teacher at school Miss. Sami who Cecilia totally adores! So now Cecilia wants to be an artist as well… she is an artist actually already… she keeps telling us… 🙂

I did a fun little egg hunt at both of our girl’s schools this spring… it was so cute! 

and look who can ride a two wheeler bike… Thank you Umpa for teaching this little brave girl how to ride without training wheels! she’s so excited! that bike used to be mine! 

They did a really sweet May Day celebration at Isabelle’s Montessori school! Her sweet teacher tied strips of fabric and taught the children how to weave the strips in and out… then after we celebrated by making smoothies with fruit from the children’s homes… such a sweet day! 

learning how to skateboard is serious business!

]]> 182 jog-a-thon and a little this and that… https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2014/05/jog-a-thon-and-a-little-this-and-that.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jog-a-thon-and-a-little-this-and-that Thu, 15 May 2014 19:55:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2014/05/15/jog-a-thon-and-a-little-this-and-that/ Read more]]>
man our family can hike… I usually am the slow one staying back a bit… looking at the birds… thinking… watching this… my everything.
Isabelle’s big Jog-a-Thon day this winter/spring… even the grandparents came out to cheer her on! so fun! 

Love how everyday they eat lunch outside in nature! if it rains they have a porch outside… always out in fresh air! It makes such a difference in kids!  

]]> 186 Jog-a-Thon https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2013/12/jog-a-thon.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jog-a-thon Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:02:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2013/12/18/jog-a-thon/

]]> 194 end of school year fun… https://catchingcaterpillars.com/2013/07/end-of-school-year-fun.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=end-of-school-year-fun Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:11:00 +0000 http://catchingcaterpillars.com/index.php/2013/07/04/end-of-school-year-fun/ Read more]]>

BABY SHOWER for RYDER!!!!!!!! 

end of the year Garden Club 1st grade party!!! we used our harvested kale, potatoes! made such a great lunch for the children! they were so excited to try so many new things!

our little Cecilia graduated… to the next year of preschool! she so happy! such a sweet loving school! we love that her and her sister have spent so many lovely days at New College Child Center!  

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