There were none ! Well.. maybe ONE jitter or two but for the most part the day went amazingly well. I don’t think we have ever had 13 new children to star the year off. Generally , we have about half new children and half are returning from the previous year. The great thing is […]
Get To Know You Play Date #2
Today was our second ” get to know you ” play date. I have never had these before but thought with thirteen new ones coming in at one time we could use a little more time to bond before the big day. I try to make all the decisions I make for our school based […]
Welcome to our New School Year !
Tonight was our first play date / mixer/ get to know you event of the new 2012-2013 school year. I was so excited to meet our new friends and the mommies and daddy’s that brought them. I dont believe I heard one melt down or see one run away child the whole hour we were […]
Summer Circus Fun
Every child needs to pretend to be in a circus right at some point ! How else will they grow up one day and be angry and slam their bedroom door and yell ” I will just run away and join the circus!!?” If they dont pretend to be a clown or […]
Last Day of 2011– 2012
Today is one of those days as a teacher you look forward to but feel sad about at the same time . I have been blessed to spend the last year with your children and your families. In many ways, your family has become my family. We have cried together in loss and rejoiced when […]
Water Day
Much fun was had today as we played in the water , shouted ” NO! Dont shoot ME with the water gun” and ” got wrinkled fingers and toes. Mrs. Ashely stayed to play today and she even slid down the slip and slide ! WOO WHOO! Ashley, you are going to make a GREAT […]
MOVIE day!
The next three days we are throwing our schedule out the window and enjoying ourselves. We will mostly still have meals , snacks and naps but we wont be watching the clock as closely as we usually do. This morning was beautiful. The kids played outside and I was praying they were getting some of […]
Last Friday Dance Party !
We spent time practicing for our program tomorrow ! We made tissue paper collages like Eric Carle. We drew marvelous pictures on the sidewalks. We had a visitor for lunch. We played… It was a good day. And here’s our last Friday Dance Party !
Shhh.. its a secret !
We spent part of our day working on a secret project for Mothers Day. This is all you get to see of it ! I want to take a moment too to say how much you should cherish your moms ! I lost my mother two years ago last week. I know we say […]
Ladybug Ladybug
Today in small groups we did a ” weekly reader” ( an old one I had – see hoarding DOES work out at times…) on ladybugs ! We learned that there are four stages in the life of a ladybug. We also learned that ladybugs come in different colors ! In circle time we […]