Conscious Discipline

As I come to the end of 6 hours Of conscious discipline training I’m thankful for the renewed commitment. I am so blessed that our children this year are kind, […]

Pumpkin 🎃 Learning

Today was interesting as I watched the boys. They love to show power and try to lift heavy things. They tried so hard to lift up the huge white pumpkin. […]

It’s So Heavy

Today we continued exploring our pumpkin. We used a bathroom scale to see how heavy it was. Is it heavier or lighter than Our friends? We took a ruler to […]

Thrilled With Pumpkins

So as you know we completed our color unit last week. I have seven weeks worth of documentation that tells me different things children are interested in but so far […]

Color Celebration

Today we pulled out all the stops to end our color exploration. We played Brown Bear eye spy as the song played. I could hear some of the kids counting […]

56 degrees and holding

We came outside around 10:00 am and it was still pretty chilly. I checked and it was 56° . I told the kids that fall must be arriving on time. […]

Mud. It’s Brown

Some days just calls for veering off the path of the curriculum. Early this morning Randy and the kids added fresh dirt to our dirt pit. It was at that […]

Brown Bear Brown Bear

If you ask the kids I would guess their favorite part of the day was sorting M&Ms onto the characters of “Brown Bear”. Rarely do we have candy but sometimes […]

Messy Colors

Today started with a bang and Randy fell down the steps. He was carrying breakfast down and missed the last step and landed in the floor. Of course I was […]

That’s a little shady

Today I introduced the word hue. Hue is a color without a shade or tent. Shade is a color mixed with black and tiny is a color mixed with white. […]