Typical Day

For a "Shimmerian," a typical day may include any one or more of the following:

• Singing, dancing, or moving during a music circle
• Drilling, hammering, grinding, grating, whisking, or coring (apples)
• Painting, drawing, melting crayons
• Building forts
• Making playdough
• Counting, measuring
• Playing dress-up
• Playing "baby cheetahs"
• Reading books
• Writing gratitude cards
• Squeezing our own lemonade
• Planting seeds or weeding
• Snacking on our own school-grown tomatoes
• Harvesting our own school-grown potatoes
• Hunting for roly-polies, worms, and salamanders under rocks
• Folding origami balloons
• Putting on puppet shows
• Scrubbing, sponging, sweeping
• Going down the slide
• Spinning on the tire swing
• Searching for "jewels" in the sandbox
• Listening to stories
• Napping in a little tent
• Giving hugs

And many more!