Mud Pie is Served

The highlight of our day was the mud pie kitchen reopening. We put it together last year but like any play area if it isnt revisited and revamped ever once […]

We Touch Things With Our Hands

Today we started out five sense unit.  We are learning about a different sense each day. Our senses are important . They help us learn about the world around us […]

Park and PIctures !

I already loaded all today’s pictures on facebook for the parents so this post will be short and without illustrations Class pictures were this morning and all the kids did […]

DIAL THREE’s ARE COMPLETE! BOO YAH!

I am happy to say that today we finished up our Dial three  assessments.  It is very comprehensive and takes SO much time.  Our parent teacher conferences are scheduled for […]

Dial Three

I have no pictures today of wonderful activities we did .  Our lesson plan included tracing our hands and making a chart called ” helpful hands / hurtful hands. ” […]

Assertiveness

Last night I spent time with other providers that do preschool that same way I do ( in a home ) and we delved into chapter 3 of our Conscious […]

Standardized Testing… boo.

Every year within 45 days of enrollment we must do developmental assessments on our preschoolers.  This year I went back to using the Dial Three.  The Dial Three scores each […]

Grandparents and Graphing

During our ” Begin with Me ” unit there are many opportunities for graphing.  Graphing activities can be used to teach sorting , counting and much more.  Today we looked […]

STAR

One of the things about conscious discipline is it is as much for me as it is for the kids.  See, I am not teaching them STAR ( Smile take […]

Open Close them Open Close them

Today we did a little activity with scissor cutting just so I could see where everyone was.  So proud to say that almost all of my second year students were […]