CCNS Kids Kick off the Holiday Season with a Fall-Stravaganza

The days cool, the late-afternoon shadows lengthen, and there is that indefinable feeling of harvest in the air. That’s right, it’s fall, and last week the kids at Crescenta-Cañada Nursery School in La Cañada kicked off the holiday season with what can only be described as a “FALL-STRAVAGANZA.”

The festivities began with a visit to the Underwood Family Farms on a sunny and warm Friday morning. Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes stretched off into the horizon, school buses off-loaded scores of excited children, and the air was redolent of harvest and the Moorpark fields. One could not help but feel transported to some other simpler time, and far from life in the city.

The kids from Crescenta-Cañada Nursery School (decked out in their distinctive blue CCNS shirts) and their parents embarked upon a delightful tractor-drawn wagon ride between rows of marigolds and sunflowers and eight-foot-high waving walls of corn. At the end of the ride the children rummaged through the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin to take home, and after snack time the kids went on to enjoy all the other wonderful things the farm has to offer: pony rides, a corn maze, a cotton harvester slide, and much more. The only hard part of the day was convincing the kids to leave!

The field trip to Underwood Farms was only the beginning of Fall fun for the kids at CCNS. In fact, the school held its own Halloween Carnival the following Tuesday, with all sorts of fun crafts to be made, games to play, and prizes to be won—Pin-the-Nose-on-the-Pumpkin, Halloween Cornhole, candy corn necklaces crafting, and many other activities. The kids posed for pictures and had an all-around great time.

You’d think this would be just too much fun for one week, but there was more! On Halloween morning at CCNS was the big HALLOWEEN PARTY AND PARADE! The Darling Ducks (3-year-olds) and Busy Bears (4-year-olds) enjoyed classroom parties with parent-provided treats; after that they assembled in the tricycle area for a costume parade, and they sang a spirited rendition of “The Trick or Treat Song” that could surely be heard by anyone within a half-mile of the school.

At CCNS children are learning how to interact with other kids and adults in a positive, fun environment, and they are learning what most of us already know—the holiday season starts in October, and it sure is a lot of fun.

Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School is a preschool that offers an exceptional early childhood experience for the entire family. It serves the following communities: La Cañada, La Crescenta, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Los Feliz, Sunland-Tujunga and Pasadena. CCNS is a place where parent involvement makes all the difference. For information, visit ccnsonline.com.