Sun Love

Step into the studio this week and you’ll see jars of golden sunflowers, baskets of apples rolling across the tables and children scientists drawing what they see, chopping apples for apple butter and adding seeds to our “chopper” for sunbutter. You'll see experiments with kinetic sand and forests of loose parts. We are having fun.

In moments like these, children are making more than sun butter sandwiches or flower pictures. They’re building muscles for empathy: “Can I stir next?” They’re testing physics with towers of apple slices that sway and topple. They’re weaving story and imagination through the room: “This sunflower is the sun, and we’re planting the sky.” (That conversation actually happened. How poetic is that?)

In the Reggio spirit, the materials become co-teachers—the crunch of an apple, the spiral of a sunflower seed head, the way kinetic sand sticks together and then releases.

Play is learning in a language children speak fluently.

Together we can make space at the table. We can watch our curriculum emerge in the simplest ways: in the quiet rhythm of chopping an apple, or the sudden delight when someone realizes the sunflower petals look like flames.

Wishing you another great weekend and we look forward to more play and discovery ahead!