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🍀 Set Up Centers With Me – St. Patrick’s Day Edition! 🌈
Today’s learning centers are filled with a little bit of magic and a whole lot of hands-on learning at The Willow Tree Learning Collective.
✨ Leprechaun Potion Sensory Station
Children mix, pour, and explore while building sensory awareness, creativity, and fine motor skills.
🍀 Clover Math Block Counting
Using blocks and clovers to practice counting, early math concepts, and problem-solving.
🌈 Pipe Cleaner Rainbow Creations
Children bend and design colorful rainbows while strengthening fine motor skills, creativity, and hand-eye coordination.
💰 Find the Gold Coins
A treasure hunt that encourages observation skills, focus, and excitement for discovery.
What may look like festive fun is actually building important developmental skills through play and exploration.
Because when learning feels magical, curiosity grows. 🌿✨
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🌿 What Looks Like Play… Is Actually Learning 🌿
At The Willow Tree Learning Collective, children learn through hands-on experiences that build real-life skills. What may look like simple play is actually powerful development happening in the moment.
🪴 Digging in the dirt
Building curiosity, sensory exploration, and a connection to nature.
📿 Beading
Strengthening fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination.
🎨 Playdough play
Developing creativity, finger strength, and early writing skills.
🧱 Building with blocks
Encouraging problem-solving, spatial awareness, and teamwork.
💧 Pouring water
Practicing coordination, focus, and early math concepts like volume.
Children don’t need constant instruction to learn — they need opportunities to explore, create, and discover.
Because when children are free to play, learning happens naturally. 🌱
03/13/2026
We are so excited! Today is the first day to submit your poetry to the Tracy Poetry Contest - and we already have four submissions. Deadline is March 31st!
Rules
1. Theme is open. Contest is family-friendly, so TFOL reserves the right to exclude poems that are explicit or contain profanity.
2. One poem per person. Any Tracy-area resident may submit (zip codes 95376, 95377, 95304).
3. Poems are limited to 30 lines. Must have been written in the past three years.
4. Poems will be judged in three age categories: 12 years old and younger, ages 13 to 17 years, and 18 years old and older.
5. Submissions accepted between March 12 and March 31, 2026.
6. To submit: Email typed poem to [email protected] with the subject title: “Poetry Contest Submission.” Attach poem as a word document or pdf. In the attached document, include the following: Title of poem, author’s name, age of author, best phone number for contact, non-school email address, and physical address.
Do not send your poem via a school email address if you are in middle school or younger. Ask a parent or teacher for help.
If you cannot submit via email, submit poem with above information in an envelope (label outside of envelope “Poetry Contest”). Envelope can be dropped up at the checkout desk at the Tracy Branch Library or mailed to the library at TFOL, Tracy Branch Library, 20 E. Eaton Avenue, Tracy CA 95376. Must arrive at the library by March 31st.
If you have questions, email [email protected].
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Off Grantline Road
Tracy, CA
95377
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8:15am - 2:30pm |
| Tuesday | 8:15am - 2:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8:15am - 2:30pm |
| Thursday | 8:15am - 2:30pm |
| Friday | 8:15am - 2:30pm |
