Gareth started a new class today: Rainforest Safari. Its just over an hour of games, crafts, songs and stories about the rainforest—a preschool alternative. When I picked him up at the end of class he was beaming—“I like my class!” he shouted. They did a jungle obstacle course at the beginning (beanbags as stepping stones across a river; a tunnel to crawl through like crawling through the plants, etc.). They played a boa constrictor game: the teacher was the snake and tried to catch the kids who pretended to be other animals. Gareth told me he was a “4-toed sloth” (like a 3-toed sloth, but everything is 4s now as he is 4 years old). They learned about the emergent layer of the rainforest—aka the very top layer stretching to the sunlight—and made a butterfly craft as butterflies flit about in this layer. Gareth’s only disappointment is that he has to wait a whole week for the next class!