Boxes Are Big

Today we continued to look at flowers and what we might still learn. I added some loose parts for the children to make their own artistic flowers. It’s so interesting […]

Art

This is the time of year that I begin looking through our portfolio to make sure everyone has enough for the show as planned. You were you would think with […]

Flowers

Josseline did break the tie this morning. It looks like we will continue exploring flowers. I might throw a veggie or two in for good measure. Today we deconstructed flowers. […]

Representational Art

Today the Explorers Curriculum suggested that we do a representational drawing of flowers with the children. Thankfully I had some flowers from my birthday leftover and we got busy. I […]

Math Walk

If you remember yesterday we started talking about flowers. We took a walk around the block looking for flowers. We found many different varieties and colors. Today we walked the […]

Flowers

With flowers sprouting up everywhere they only seem natural that we do a little bit of an investigation. We talked a bit today about what we know about flowers and […]

The Root of Family Childcare

The root of family childcare is family. So many times through the day we are like a big Ole’ family. Randy needed help winding a huge long hose. The boys […]

Exploring on Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. I asked the children if they knew what the earth is this morning and many of them did. Elijah even stated that “ it’s a planet […]

Math Moments

In every classroom, at any time during the day, the potential for a math moment exists. The room is one big learning center where strands of mathematical discovery are continually […]

Randomness

Sometimes even I struggle with the way I teach… Am I doing enough? Are they going to be ready? And then I see things like this and take a breath […]