Celebrating holidays from other countries gives us yet another opportunity to talk about how everyone looks different , might talk in another language and even eat different kinds of foods. Today is the day the Chinese celebrate the New Year. This year is called the year of the dragon. I have a theme box I […]
Wrapping up MLK Day
Remember the brown paint we created yesterday ? Today we turned that into amazing Martin Luther King. This is called teacher directed art. The kids didnt walk over to the easel and say ” I think I am going to paint Martin Luther King.” I called them over one at a time and reminded […]
Busy Beautiful Day
Our day started off great with Macus, Kingston’s dad stopping in to read a story. Those are always great times as friends meet a mom or dad and the child learns to share a parent with his or her friends. Kingston was so proud of his dad reading the story to his friends. The kids […]
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Finished Faces
Today was a good day. I love it when I can look around and hear the hum of children playing. Sometimes you can almost feel it… like a heart beat. Does that mean that every day is perfect – ha! No! But you see… if days were perfect the children wouldn’t have as many […]
Matching Skin Tones
I had scheduled to go back and do a winter wrap up but I was so intrigued by the kids responses to introducing Martin Luther King Jr.that I decided to explore this subject a little longer. Not only that, but talking to kids about things like this encourage me to be a better person. […]
Celebrating Differences
Today is Martin Luther King Day. I am from the Delta and many people in that area prefer to call this Robert E Lee Day ( it’s his birthday too.) . I am not one of those. Some might think that teaching preschoolers about racism and bigotry are wrong and ” how in the […]
This winter unit has really been ill timed
The weather outside is so incredibly beautiful. It is hard to keep trudging through this winter unit. Why you might ask am I doing it ? IT IS ON MY SCHEDULE. What a poor poor excuse this week for teaching something that isn’t relevant. Shame on me. 🙁 […]
What do bears do in the winter ?
Today has been a BLAH.. day. Nothing exciting or new really going on EXCEPT we pretended to be bears that hibernate during the winter . When I said ” winter” they all went to sleep. […]
Polar Animals
Today we started exploring polar animals a little . I love putting new things on the tables and watching them explore and decide how to use them. Just from this picture alone there are so many opportunities to teach concepts […]
Is it spring or winter ?
The weather has NOT cooperated this week in being a teaching aid for my winter unit. But THATS OK! I WILL TAKE IT! One of the activities we did today was exploring curved and straight lines . All letters are comprised of a straight line, a curved line or a combination of the two. […]