October 2009 – Page 4

w is for work

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” Maria Montessori

we took advantage of “e is for envelope” to bring a mail center to the classroom. thanks to my thrifty husband, we have hundreds of envelopes that come in junk mail, etc. shame on me for giving him a hard time for saving them. family corner purses quickly became mail bags, random corners of theContinue reading “e is for envelope”

r is for rubber band boards

technically, these are geoboards. but we call them rubber band boards. they are a well liked activity. a great opportunity to create in the abstract. this is a rocket ship: expect to spend a lot of clean up time finding wayward rubber bands (or pieces of them) around the room. that is when i announceContinue reading “r is for rubber band boards”

c is for ceiling

whenever possible, put things on the ceiling. we’ve put tucked our blue collage and yellow collaged in with the ceiling tiles.

w is for we wish you well

when children arrive at preschool, they find their name tags (which have a magnet on back) and stick it over their photo on our Picture Board (a cookie sheet with photos on it. the photos also have magnets on the back which lets the children rearrange the photos as they like). when we gather forContinue reading “w is for we wish you well”