// It's April! //

After a few April Fool jokes on Monday, the Silver Room got straight back into the serious work of pouring water, matching rhymes and, yes, digging for dinosaur "bones" and "fossils" (carefully crafted from clay by Ms. Rachelle). Indoors, the students have been very studiously learning about dinosaurs from books and from each other, and the younger friends have been admiring the K students' dinosaur projects as they come together.

Outside, we've been spending a lot of time in the park itself, exploring around the roots of trees and examining the progress of the flower buds. We've noticed that many of the daffodils in the Children's Garden have bloomed, heralding spring with their yellow trumpets, and that many of the trees are also budding out. We've noticed that the cherry trees have round, reddish or green buds and the maple trees have fuzzy reddish or golden buds. We've also noticed that things look different just about every time we go outside! Spring is such a season of change-- we're happy we get to spend time observing these cheerful changes together!