Making the Calendar Meaningful

A lot of early childhood places do calendar time. Ask your child what they did yesterday ? Go ahead. Most don’t know the difference between yesterday , today and tomorrow […]

Harold And The Purple Crayon

It makes complete sense that as we continue to explore mark making that we read about Harold and his purple crayon. Maybe you remember the story from childhood . If […]

Developmental Assessments

I’m not even sure if I’m required anymore to do developmental assessment. But I have done baseline assessment on children since 2008 and it definitely is best practice. So I […]

Dot markings

Today we continued our exploration of mark making. We experimented making dots on paper. We made tiny dots and large dots. Then we connected them with lines. We connected them […]

I’m not just a scribble ..

We continued our mark making exploration by reading a book called “I’m not just a scribble.” I have never read the book before but I love it. The “scribble” meets […]

What is a Social Story

They are stories that are specifically written to help teach a skill or for emotional and social regulation support. I actually was in a meeting yesterday that I mentioned a […]

Scribble Stones

Today we read a story called Scribble Stones . You can find it here https://youtu.be/AQzRlquoHNU After reading the story we went outside and grabbed our chalk and created art of […]

Mr Marker Has Magic

Who remembers that we called markers “magic markers” back in the day? I’m not really sure why they were called “magic markers” but introducing markers today had us revisiting that […]

Well Hello Fall

If you don’t have a job where you got to sit outside today you are missing out. It was an absolutely amazing day. After breakfast and family time we headed […]

Our Big Voice

You know that I feel the most important thing I can give your child in preparation for kindergarten is a strong foundation for social and emotional regulation. That also includes […]