Phonemic Awareness

The lack of phonemic awareness is the most powerful determinant of the likelihood of failure to read . -( Adams , 1990)  What is phonemic awareness? Phonemic awareness is […]

Reason 2953

Today the kids finished up their valentine treat for their friends. Over four days they used a different medium to decorate a small heart. Today they took a list of […]

Yoga what ?

One of the moms came in today and said… ” Are you guys doing yoga? ” Why yes, we are. Right now we’re just learning a few poses. We do […]

Intention

This week we’re still digging a little deeper into the discussion of consequences. While delivering consequences there are three intentions. 1. You have the intention to punish by making children […]

Are Rewards Ok ?

I remember the days of treasure boxes. I had an old sewing box that was painted gold. I had carefully chosen Jewels hot glued to the top that made it […]

Consequences #3

Hopefully you listened to my two vlogs yesterday explaining how I messed up. I have consequences too. My consequence was the feeling I had when I made a mistake in […]

Consequences

Yesterday we talked about punishments today we will dig a little deeper into consequences. Consequences teach children how to solve problems and show children that mistakes are opportunities to learn. […]

Punishments

Today we’re gonna dig a little deeper into what exactly is considered a punishment. A punishment makes children suffer for having a problem. Ex. A little three-year-old boy cannot sit […]

Consequences vs Punishment

Last week when Holly . Randy and I went to our conscious discipline training it was the perfect training for us. Not only did it remind us of some things […]

Roses are purple

Today we did a directed drawing. In line with the following the directions blog yesterday I noticed a distinct difference between my three-year-olds and my almost 5-year-olds  Since I […]