Tu Bishvat Waldorf style

Greetings!
Hope y'all are having a relaxing weekend.
We had a very nice Tu Bishvat experience (not to mention Ariel's birthday celebration) at Ariel's kindergarten. Miss Pat, Ariel's teacher, aka "Haganenet" wrote an email to all the parents' asking them to bring a plant, and they did! all of them! All the little ducklings went after Miss Pat and Yariv, holding a a plant, and Yariv dug and dug and then the plants were planted in an orderly manner.

I just love my husband!
It turned out that many of the kids were experts at planting, whether by knowledge from their parents or from Miss Pat, and many gave planting advice to Yariv (did you know that when you take a plant from the plastic pot, you have to loosen the roots a little bit, to allow them to attach better to the ground later? i didn't.
It was cold and windy but i am happy to say the mission was completed with success and the kids were real pros! And of course, the story would not be complete without one or two critters. All the digging made way for the discovery of a number of worms, and waldorf being a waldorf, the tradition is to put your treasures in little buckets and show all the other kids. Ewwwww!!!!!!!



Don't know how familiar you are with the waldorf K environment, but it is immensely serene and they have a nature table, depicting the major characteristics of each season. this is their winter scene. Miss Pat is a genious!

Ariel was very happy with both the planting and being a birthday girl. I guess that that was the best we could do given the circumstances (being abroad away fro family, friends, etc). 

Re'em always enjoys a good palntin' and diggin'! A la prochaine mes amis!