Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer

I started the day DETERMINED to have a good day.  Good day doesn’t mean I just let everything roll off my back and go with the flow. Good day means […]

Winter Patterning

Patterns are everywhere we look. It is on animals .  It is in clothes.   When students start recognizing patterns they see how things fit together and work. Word patterns, […]

The Mitten

The Mitten is a great book written by Jan Brett.  The illustrations are wonderful.  We started out small group today reading the book ” The Mitten .” It’s a story […]

Winter is Coming

Today we read the book ” Winter is Coming ” and we talked about ( and charted ) what we think ” winter ” is.  Some of the answers I […]

Turkey in the Bag

There are some days as a teacher you just sigh.. and say ” today was a good day.”  It was a good day !  Not perfect, but who is ? […]

Then and Now

We started our day during breakfast thinking of things we are thankful for.   During small groups we did a sorting activity with Skittles candy.  These activities are always a […]

There’s a Turkey on my Head

It felt good to be back today .  We had a good day.  The children were busy playing and learning and we had few incidents.  Every day during family time […]

Thanksgiving

Its hard to believe that we are already to Thanksgiving this school year.  Today we read the story of ” The First Thanksgiving” and talked about words like thankful and […]

More families

Today Canyon’s mommy, Andrea came to read a book to us. She is a fantastic story teller and the kids enjoyed as she read Canyon’s favorite book ” Here come […]

I can help my family !

I searched for a definition of family and this is the best one I could come up with. Families are who you love. Our families all “look” different and it’s always been so. […]