Asking The Right Questions

When working with children much of my time is spent just watching and listening . Sometimes I ask questions but I try to be careful about what I ask and […]

Hello Fri-yay!

For some kiddos Monday is hard after a long weekend. For other kiddos Friday is hard because they’re exhausted from keeping up the schedule. I get it. I woke up […]

Dots and Letters

You all know that I don’t directly teach letters or letter sounds. But I do activities all the time that involve the alphabet. Today as I’m still introducing materials we […]

Digging Deeper

Some days are just more hectic than others. I think sometimes the state that you greet your day with is where you reside for a while. That holds true for […]

Connections

One really fabulous thing that has happened during Covid is our drop off procedure. Every year we start with great intentions to do greetings with children as soon as they […]

Themes

I’m not a huge fan of theme based curriculums. I think it’s much better for the children if we observe to see what they are interested in and cater what […]

The Dirt Pit

Today was the first day that we spent the entire day outside. We only had one child asked “when are we going in?” but she didn’t seem sad to be […]

Splash Splash Pad

Today we talked about being safe. We had a fire drill and explored the storm shelter. We even turned off all the lights in there and talked about how the […]

Day 2 Wrap Up

Today was another really great day. We came inside first to have breakfast. I think coming inside once in a while after drop off will be helpful when we do […]

First Day 20-21

I don’t think anyone was more excited for the first day of school than I was. I hardly slept at all last night. Randy said probably due to excitement. I […]