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The Cottage Garden Blog

www.thecottagegarden.org.


The Cottage Garden is now a Developing Member of WECAN

WELCOME

Welcome to our home day care. My name is Celia Riahi and I have been a Waldorf early childhood educator for a long time and I feel it is my vocation to care for and teach young children. I work with my partner, Barbara Audley. She is the slow to my fast- a wonderful storyteller, cook, caregiver and all around loving, fair and terrific person-we work very well together.

We are located in Amherst, MA and are open Monday-Thursday, 8-3:30, August 29- June 30. We serve 8 families and nine children. We are licensed for 10 children per day, by the EEC and both of us have CPR and First Aid training. 


We are now a Developing Member of The Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN)

Our website has lots more information if you are interested. Any suggestions to this blog, whether it be more clarification of what we offer or the layout, 

are always welcome. Please be kind enough to ask my permission to use any copy or photos etc. I can be reached at- celia@thecottagegarden.org

Please join us as I try to share in words and photos, songs, recipes, stories and festivals notes all that fills our days here at The Cottage Garden. 

Please note that I had to put the date ahead in order to have this be the first page-if anyone knows another way please let me know-Enjoy.

Spring is Coming

Well spring has finally come. We have had many beautiful days in the yard. Flowers are popping up and the children are so happy together.  They are playing so sweetly together; on the farm, milking the cow, building fires to roast marshmellows or to keep warm. They are climbing and jumping with such ease so here are some new photos to enjoy.

Building a "fire"

Quack quack

Putting baby to sleep

Covering Baby

Emerson's House and Library

Folding

Bouncy bouncy Erin

Pat a Cake

Dying our eggs for our Spring Gardens

This is "bleeding" tissue paper for dyes

Look at Mine!

Barbara reading to her "babies"

Playing on our log

Mother Earth and friends

First Ice Pops of the season

spicy says Ruby

Jesse's first day

kisses from brother Henry

Planting our spring gardens with wheat berries

The "juice bar" named by Mia

2 weeks later our spring gardens have sprouted! and Barbara hardboiled some onion skin eggs

Jesse's second day

How many toddlers can fit on the table??

rolling

climbing

Mia has set up "milking the cow" at the tree and makes many deliveries of milk

Hmmm says Oscar what are they doing?

Milk  is coming over the bridge

A visitor

Jesse is fast asleep

Working and playing at the farm

Quick there's the garbage truck!

Milk  deliveries

Dear Emma grinding rice with Henry