Though we only had yellow and red available in the paint area today and many children painted they still did not stumble across the color mixing magic that I hoped would happen. This morning I set up an intentional provocation. What will happen if we mix yellow and red paint ? Orange !! We also […]
F is for Fire
We had two special activities outside today . Fireman have to exercise to keep in shape. The kids used an obstacle course to practice strength , coordination and agility. Another fun activity we had outside today was a literacy activity. You can bring literacy outdoors and turn it into fun ! I wrote […]
Parent Teacher Conferences
There has been a lot of research put into what affect parent / teacher partnerships have on school success. The primary purposes of our parent conference in the fall is to go over the developmental assessment that is mandated by the Arkansas Better Chance program and together to set a goal that we both can […]
Stop, Drop and Roll
Holy Guacamole ! I don’t think we could have packed any more fun and learning into today if we tried. First, let me tell you how great you are. This morning Mr Randy got up feeling a little under the weather. In the middle of an already totally busy day / week/ month I […]
Curious George Goes to the Hospital
Our morning started with Ms Gabby coming to read ” Curious George Goes to the Hospital.” She read the book in spanish and then explained in english what was happening on each page. At one […]
The Fire Truck Visit !
In honor of a very busy day – heres the majority of our excitement today . All else paled in comparison. The fire fighters were wonderful. We had a whole crew with two trucks and Sparky the dog. It was amazing !
The Police Visit
Early this morning one of our friends drew an amazing picture of her mom at the paint easel . I posted it on facebook for all our friends to enjoy and a friend commented that her grand daughter draws people with no arms also ! Did you know there are developmental stages to drawing […]
More Fire Safety
A cooking experience with nutella ? You bet ! STOP LIGHTS […]
More Fire Fun
Today we had more fire fun as we played with pretend cell phones and dialed 911 when we thought it was an emergency. Its amazing what kids deem an emergency versus what a real life emergency is. Our dog is in the middle of the street . Is this an emergency ? Two cars crashed […]
People Who Keep us Safe
What a very busy hectic day. Many Mondays are. We did a lot and still have one more thing on the lesson plan that we didnt get to. We will try to tag it on tomorrow. Today in small groups we did a math game using fire trucks. Each child would draw a card and […]