Some days just calls for veering off the path of the curriculum. Early this morning Randy and the kids added fresh dirt to our dirt pit. It was at that […]
Brown Bear Brown Bear
If you ask the kids I would guess their favorite part of the day was sorting M&Ms onto the characters of “Brown Bear”. Rarely do we have candy but sometimes […]
Messy Colors
Today started with a bang and Randy fell down the steps. He was carrying breakfast down and missed the last step and landed in the floor. Of course I was […]
That’s a little shady
Today I introduced the word hue. Hue is a color without a shade or tent. Shade is a color mixed with black and tiny is a color mixed with white. […]
International Dot Day
September 15 is International Dot. day. This day is celebrated around the book called “The Dot “ by Peter Reynolds. “The Dot” is about a young girl named Vashti who […]
Colors in nature
Today we took a walk in the neighborhood with color swatches in hand looking for shades of colors that match. As we looked at nature we talked about colors that […]
Splitting Black
We’ve done a lot of color mixing and we’ve learned that you make different colors when you combine primary colors. They know that green can be made by mixing blue […]
Experiments / Experiences
We did a lot of scientific experiences today. I don’t usually call them experiments with the kids because we are in it more for the experience and the language that […]
Color Throwing
A friend from New York did a color throwing activity at her family childcare home the other day and I thought “ why not?” It looked like great fun. So […]