Author Archives: Ms Kristin

it is no small thing to notice what provides comfort for children.  especially during the transition from home to the classroom.  some children crave the rowdy jokes from teachers, some hover by their cubby for a while taking notice, some are taken from one set of arms to another.  there is a group of girlsContinue reading “c is for comfort”

it is fun to talk about seemingly forbidden things:  poop, pee, guts, poop, dirt, blood, poop, dog breath…you get the idea. rats in the dirt table was a little gross…but not as gross as one of our big tables: oh, it was GROSS!  this was actually a collection of stuff that i took to myContinue reading “g is for gross”

from our facebook page: families: questions i didn’t answer and/or topics of conversation that i encouraged preschoolers to continue at home: god: is god a person? does god crawl? is god as magic as santa? is god jesus? is god a ghost? santa: is santa real? can he fit through a key hole? does heContinue reading “f is for facebook”

oh, boy, good thing we had some firefighters (and a detachable shop vac hose) because everything that was red or orange or yellow was considered fire! we also played a “big body” game that involved the class of firefighters “sleeping” until i called the fire station (after i hid a cluster of red/orange/yellow crepe paper.Continue reading “f is for fire”

part of D week was spent with the good old topic of dirt. how HANDY to have construction going on next door with a huge pile of dirt. {we may or may not have been asked to please stay off of it} but we knew where to find our own dirt, how to mix itContinue reading “d is for dirt”