Today we had 5 friends out. Four were sick and one had a doctors appt. Needless to say, it has been a little quiet today. Well… if you don’t count the guy hammering on the roof outside. The kids did enjoy watching Nathan through the window as he repaired our roof from the […]
5 Little Pumpkins
Today I focused most of our activities on counting. In small groups we read a counting book called two little witches. It is great for getting the kiddos to begin thinking about addition. After reading the book I laid the pumpkins number cards on the table and we took turns seeing which numbers we […]
Halloween is coming !
Halloween will be here before we know it. The next two weeks we will use the holiday to teach things like the letter H and the colors orange and black. We will also explore what it means for something to be real and not real – which is very important this time of year. We […]
From Hot Springs With Love
Today while I was learning how to make the world a better place for our children ( This statistic really struck me . How easy is it to pick up a book and read for 5 minutes? A friend pointed […]
The Chef Is In
I just arrived in Hot Springs so this will be a short post . Early and long day tomorrow at the Arkansas Early Childhood Association Conference . When you see […]
Rainboot Heaven
There was lots of spontaneous learning going on in our room today. On days like this it is hard to stop the play to move on to my agenda. Hm…. I will let that thought soak in a little. […]
From Super Teacher to…..
Today was a really good day until…. Do you every have those days ? The day started really great. The children were all playing in centers. I introduced the IPAD to them. Orrin’s mom showed up from her morning walk with the perfect leaf for a project I had been wanting to do..so we started […]
Rainy Days Can Be Productive !
Today started out with rain. You would think we would dread rainy days but for some reason rainy days are usually good ones for me. I wouldn’t push my luck to have too many in a row but one every now and then is perfect. We had time inside to play with our […]
Biscuits Anyone ?
I had a training all day at Northside today. It was a training related to keeping portfolios online. Portfolios are a way to collect and organize children’s “work” to show developmental progress. That is ” Debbie’s definition.” If you would like to know more about portfolio’s I found some good info on the […]
Crazy Hat Day
We had 100% participation for hat day today! I am SO impressed. I don’t think 100% has ever happened in the history of our preschool. Awesome parenting …. There was no real rhyme or reason for hat day other than it being Mad Hatters Day . Mad Hatter Day is a great day […]