Category: <span>Pets</span>

Today the Animal Shelter came to visit us to prepare us for our visit there after school.  Before they cam we talked about what we might want to know.  I was so impressed with the list the children came up with.   They asked QUESTIONS! Thats big .  Usually 3 year olds haven’t grasped the […]

I had a little turtle I named him Tiny Tim I put him in the bathtub To see if he could swim He drank up all the water He ate a bar of soap Now he’s in his bed With bubbles in his throat. Today we read a story about a box turtle. Some things […]

We are still talking about pets this week. Mila brought Pinky her hamster in .  Pinky has slept most of the day but that is teaching us something too.  Hamsters are nocturnal animals .  Mila said she could wake up him up with her sweet yodel she does.  Unfortunately he didn’t wake up but it […]

Since we are learning about pets this week I talked to Tara at the Pink Poodle and set up a field trip to her place the PINK POODLE . The walk there is almost as educational as the experience itself as we talk about ways to stay safe while walking near a street.  These guys […]

We have 5 preschoolers that will start kindergarten in the fall.  We don’t ” teach ” letter writing  or recognition through rote teaching.  Rote means that you do it over and over the same way until it is  memorized  — such as flash cards.  We do encourage the children to write their names when it […]

Today we started our unit on pets.  I always forgot how much the noise level raises when we do this unit. We have barking and meowing all over the place .  You add that to sweet Naomi’s voice singing ” Come Join the Circle ” and it the room is buzzing.   Part of the […]

Since becoming a part of the Arkansas Better Chance System at times I have felt sad.  I look back at old pictures of our play groups and think wow.. those were the days. The kids no longer play in our ” living space” anymore.  There arent cozy couches to crawl up on when we are […]