In May, First Day School continues its spring theme of “Sanctuary”.  We will make our ‘personal trees’ into imaginary sanctuaries for all kinds of small creatures by building fairy houses under them.  New children will get to choose their personal trees while all the trees will get better identification tags.  We will learn about what…

Our children’s program moves from “how to find peace” to “sanctuary” – how to create peace for ourselves and for others.  We started by learning how people protect amphibians crossing the road during their annual migration to vernal pools.  Then we will prepare for our annual Easter Egg hunt.  After Easter, we resume the theme…

FDS continues its general theme this year of “How to find peace”.  We are learning some practices that people use to find peace: Amie shared her practice of yoga, Molly helped the children make God’s Eyes, we learned to finger-knit.  We put two beanbag chairs in the meeting room between the benches, and the children…