Ready for Kindergarten

Today is the day the kindergarten teachers come to visit. The usual routine is to read a book and let the children ask questions. Four and five year olds still […]

JOY

Today is the kick off for Arkansas Children’s Week. We celebrate it every year. This years theme is JOY. I could manufacture things / activities that bring JOY or we […]

Outside Play

I’ll be honest, I did not wanna go outside today. You couple the wet with the cold and it’s almost unbearable. However, we did not buy these muddy suits for […]

Meal Times

“ Childcare programs – serving breakfast, two snacks and lunch, provide children with up to 75% of your daily nutrition part the part we play in providing substance is dovetailed […]

Spring is Here

It does my heart so good to hear a child yell “Look Ms Debbie!! The tree has flowers!” The Bradford pear tree is so beautiful this time of year. It’s […]

Family Style Dining

Prior to Covid we did a lot of family style dining. Best practice suggested we pause that. I am currently leading a book study where we are really digging into […]

Dirt From Home

Looking further into our identity in place today each of the children brought in samples of soil from their own yard We took time to look at the dirt and […]

Welcome to our school

Today’s invitation was to help create a video that is a Tour of our environment. I will put that together tonight and hopefully you guys will enjoy the children’s version […]

Identity Through Place

Today the children continued to explore identity through place. An activity offered was “mapping “ their way to school. Terri said most of them really enjoyed this. They also used […]

Real Place

With the play invitation yesterday, children began to build their awareness about the area where we play, where everything is in their room and the sizes of things in relation […]