Category: <span>Winter</span>

Written language is acquired by children in many of the same ways they acquire oral language. Two crucial aspects of learning oral language are having opportunities to be a language […]

Getting dressed on time in the morning can be a real challenge for many of us, but it is particularly difficult for young children who have to contend with buttons, […]

When I describe the perfect day at our place it always involves a huge feeling of community. In our preschool family we believe that social / emotional learning is the […]

Today we made new Playdoh. It is blue at one of the children’s request. Odd thing is the day flew by even though we had to stay in. We had […]

Being a program that practices many of the Reggio Emilia philosophies our goal is to allow the children to lead in their own learning. As I explained yesterday that means […]

Honestly, games are probably my weakness. I have a hard time sitting and watching movies. I have a hard time doing anything that is not active physical or brain work […]

Quite quickly this morning I figured out where much of my time would be spent. There was a small group of children wrapping crepe paper around each other while playing […]

Today was like an amazing spring day. We spent much of our morning outside running off the weekend and holiday hoopla . Sometimes when that happens I doubt myself and […]

Today the creativity and imagination being used was incredible. If you give children the time and the resources they can do great things. These two played quite a while here. […]

We started out our day talking about the weather. When the children left yesterday we were talking about the freezing rain and that the weatherman said it may snow. Obviously […]