Today we visited Jamaica using our imaginations and the pictures and artifacts that Randy and I brought back from our trip. The kids loved the wooden head. Jamiaca is known for it’s wood art. The head is a little scary but very interesting. William took it and said ” Hey, this is weird.Are YOU […]
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Finished Faces
Today was a good day. I love it when I can look around and hear the hum of children playing. Sometimes you can almost feel it… like a heart beat. Does that mean that every day is perfect – ha! No! But you see… if days were perfect the children wouldn’t have as many […]
Green !
> Today we were all about green. I had intended to show them color mixing but with five kids out I decided to wait until tomorrow so the missing kiddos can enjoy color mixing too ! But it WAS Muffin Tin Monday. All our food was GREEN. So, mom and dad.. if you see something […]
Ssssssnakes!
> On days it is raining outside we add a little more gross motor play like this fun jungle toss. Ever feel like there was a monkey on your back ? Five little monkeys jumping on the bed. We can practice our writing with fun cards that have words on them. Roar like a lion […]
More Wild Animals
> We’s had another fun day at preschool. Here is Orrin . We learned that an elephant sucks water up his nose and them puts it into his mouth. Practicing this with a turkey baster from one dish to another dish was fun ! One game we played was a file folder game called Lions […]
Its the KIDDOS!
> Most of you know that Randy and I travel doing children’s music. We don’t do many during the school year so we havent done a concert since September. We are doing a concert tomorrow in Van Buren for a new library down there. The kids let us do a run through for them ! […]
Want to cluck a little ?
> Some pictures from yesterday when I was being a whine bag and didnt post. 🙂 Cutting lanterns is a great fine motor activity and great for teaching how important it is to listen and follow directions. If you dont stop on the line your lantern gets smaller and smaller. I was really impressed with […]
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Books and Rhythm Sticks
> From the block center this morning I heard ” Look Mia we made a community !” Sure enough, I look over there and this is what I see. The girls were so proud of themselves! Other experiences we had today was using our scales to measure things. We used important words like equal and […]
The itsy Bitsy Spider
> Lots of ” crafting ” going on in the art center today. Still continuing our “bugs” discussions today we talked about SPIDERS ! Whoops ! Then we had an unplanned fire drill. Ms Debbie forgot the chicken and the smoke alarm went off. 🙂 Back to our spider art… In these two pictures you […]