Category: <span>Winter</span>

This morning Randy was in the kitchen starting the chicken in the instant pot for me. Lately that help hasn’t come as often. But the kids heard him in the […]

It takes a while to build community. At the beginning of the year 10 children arrive and many of them do not know each other and many of them have […]

I take a lot of heat from some of my colleagues about my stance on crafts for children. We sneak one in from time to time. But as a whole […]

I brought out some special Halloween materials yesterday. The children were very intrigued. So today their challenge was to sort The Halloween erasers. They really enjoyed it. This is a […]

I thought our fun today was going to be wearing PJ’s all day. Boy was I wrong. As I listened to the rain ping the roof I was like “ […]

Did you know that meal times are the perfect time for me to teach concepts to children? No sense in sitting with flashcards when we can talk about all of […]

Today we continued to explore Fall by digging into the Leaf Man . The children used their creativity to make their own Leaf Man. A fall invitation was also added […]

I know when you hear six children you might think “that’s still a lot” but considering that for more than 20 years I had 16 every day and now I […]

Today was cooking day. We mixed spice cake mix and canned pumpkin to make a wonderful pumpkin cake It was delicious. This started a conversation about pumpkins. Hopefully they will […]

By this time in the game children should be able to recognize their name without a picture. Not necessarily KNOW all of the letters but just like they see the […]