Our holiday parties are more of a week – long / day long celebration. Too many structured activities makes for very anxious unsettled children. We started celebrating Valentines today. You […]

I could hold up a flash card of a heart or we could paint 100 hearts. Which will I remember? I could hold up color cards and sing color songs […]

Children learn more and dig deeper when allowed more time. I’ll give you examples from today. In short periods of time the children will go in the dress up area […]

Free play ! That’s what today consisted of. That’s not a terrible thing. The kids have not seen each other for a week. They missed playing with each other. The […]

Well – the snow is almost melted on the yard but we found snow in lots of places we could explore. There was even more ice. We felt it. It […]

Today was one of the “national” holidays we count up to for fun. Today is National Peanut Butter Day. We made peanut butter / Cheerios cookie clusters. But first – […]

Mondays are sometimes hard. Today wasn’t too bad. Everyone was here. We celebrated Journey turning 4. Today was SUPER LOUD. Is it th me weather change we are expecting? As […]

Do you realize how BIG it is that 3 kiddos played in the light room for an hour straight ? The average attention span of a three year old is […]

Before Christmas I ordered two new sets of fairy lights. I LOVE fairy lights in our room. I think the aesthetic of a room can be as important as materials […]

If you ask your child about yesterday or tomorrow they likely don’t know. For children before the age of 5/6 it’s like Christmas vacation every day. What day is it […]