Today began with rain so we set up some options in the pavillion for children to duck in and out of rain play as they wish. The wire cheese slicer provided some interesting clay possibilities today! We set up a tarp in the forest area closest to our “drop off field” and the children were happy to find a tree they were able to climb! As parents are already probably aware from climbing activities at pick up time, AFK Educators don’t lift of assist children into climbing positions, so the younger children watched the older climbers with fascination. Many of the children have an immediate association between the tarp shelter and playing house, and we witnessed that to varying degrees of complexity with the ways our 3, 4, and 5 year olds played NEAR the tarp! The children were positively gleeful at the large amount of standing water they found on the walk back to the building and we let them traipse through ankle deep water for a long and splashy walk back to lunch!