many shades of green

Dear Families,

Our forty minute uphill hike from deep in the woods today reminds me of the remarkable vitality of our children in this year's Butterfly Nursery class. What a variety of terrains and shades of greens we have explored and encountered! Sometimes the sun showers us with dappled light. There is an enormous root system from a fallen tree painted shades of green that seem sublime. Tender wildflowers peek at us from the side of the trail.

Teachers and children enjoy the salubrious value of these walks. We are navigating down and up steep hills, running like Puck and plodding like Bottom, rolling and rolling at Granny's meadow, and benefiting from a host of movements in nature. At a movement seminar at Rudolf Steiner College, I learned that Germans created gymnastics as something for people to do in cities when they could no longer access the health-giving benefits of tree climbing and playing in nature. How fortunate for all of us (teachers included) to have such a variety of outdoor space to explore.