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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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.) […]

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 […]

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 .           […]

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.       […]

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 […]

Snowmen everywhere !

Today the kids enjoyed the IPAD more.   It is interesting to watch them try to navigate their way through all the programs and how they instinctively know what to […]