Resist getting in power struggles with children . It’s not about me being right… It’s about helping the child begin to make choices on their own that are healthy and […]

Today we started discussing voice levels. It’s helpful if everyone uses them at home too. It’s a game changer. Level 0 – no voice Level 1 – whisper Level 2 […]

A lot of early childhood places do calendar time. Ask your child what they did yesterday ? Go ahead. Most don’t know the difference between yesterday , today and tomorrow […]

It makes complete sense that as we continue to explore mark making that we read about Harold and his purple crayon. Maybe you remember the story from childhood . If […]

I’m not even sure if I’m required anymore to do developmental assessment. But I have done baseline assessment on children since 2008 and it definitely is best practice. So I […]

Today we continued our exploration of mark making. We experimented making dots on paper. We made tiny dots and large dots. Then we connected them with lines. We connected them […]

We continued our mark making exploration by reading a book called “I’m not just a scribble.” I have never read the book before but I love it. The “scribble” meets […]

They are stories that are specifically written to help teach a skill or for emotional and social regulation support. I actually was in a meeting yesterday that I mentioned a […]

Today we read a story called Scribble Stones . You can find it here https://youtu.be/AQzRlquoHNU After reading the story we went outside and grabbed our chalk and created art of […]

Who remembers that we called markers “magic markers” back in the day? I’m not really sure why they were called “magic markers” but introducing markers today had us revisiting that […]