Well Hello Fall

If you don’t have a job where you got to sit outside today you are missing out. It was an absolutely amazing day. After breakfast and family time we headed […]

Our Big Voice

You know that I feel the most important thing I can give your child in preparation for kindergarten is a strong foundation for social and emotional regulation. That also includes […]

Day 1 Lesson Plans

Today was a special day. All the “firsts” at this age are memorable. I’m sure you remember the first time your child talked to you or the first time they […]

Mia’s Grandkids Are Here

It’s been the best day ever. After a year and a half the littlest grands came to play. ❤️❤️❤️ it was a bit confusing at times with a Cameran and […]

Rearranging and Revolting

The kids came in this morning excited and curious about our new reading center. We spent some time talking about where it might best fit. I reminded them that we […]

Kindergarten Tour

Today was the day. I had five very excited preschoolers ready to get on the bus. As they watched for the bus over the fence they cheered when they saw […]

Heggerty

Did the kids tell you we finished our purple book? it is 35 weeks of daily phonemic awareness practice. It’s the only time during the day that I do rote […]

Hooray for Diffendoofer

If you’ve been with me anytime and you know me well you know how passionate I am about honoring the stage of development children are in and not pushing them […]

Where The Wild Things Are

Here !! They are all here. That was my favorite book in grade school. I remember watching it on microfilm in the library. I was reminded today when the children […]

Self portraits

We have done our last self portrait of the year. It’s always amazing to me how much progress is shown through this simple activity. Children go through stages of drawing […]