Making Art Meaningful

Continuing our thoughts from last week I wondered as the teacher how to tie this all together.   They love telling stories. They love art. They love music.  I want […]

Mediocre

This morning we had a few melt downs and a little craziness .  So much to the point when a mom left she said ” Have a mediocre day ! […]

Christmas is Coming 2017

Christmas erasers to match, sort, stack , count and pattern become much more fun when they are stored in a tiny cute basket .   I put this together last […]

Catch Up

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day. It was wonderful for a lot of reasons  but busy. Ms Emma from the UK came to visit us and stayed all day. She […]

Language

Since we are such a TRADITIONAL preschool today we taught something a little more innovative and fun.  We all did the cha cha slide . 🙂 We also played a […]

Parent Conferences

Parent Conferences are required by Arkansas Better Chance funding.   What should happen at an ideal parent-teacher conference? Ideally , the conference should just feel like a conversation between the […]

Creative Art

I have been seeing some really amazing art pieces !   I haven’t ” taught ” them to draw.  I only supply materials and LOTS AND LOTS of time. COPIED […]

Taking Risks

  Today one of the littles came up to me and said ” We made a trampoline. ”  Hmm.. You did?   What did you make it from ?   […]

Documentation

The power of documentation. Transcriptions of children’s remarks and discussions, photographs of their activity, and representations of their thinking and learning are carefully studied. These documents have several functions. Most […]

The Magic of Preschool

We had a visitor here yesterday.  As she walked in she said ” I can’t believe there are 16 children in here. It’s so quiet and calm.” Well.. yes, it […]