Author Archives: Ms Kristin

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we’ve got a couple of kids with food allergies this year.  one way to help ensure that they eat the food that is safe for them and to take the focus off of their food differences at snack time is to add names to our snack spots. when preschoolers are off washing hands and fillingContinue reading “n is for name recognition {at snack time!}”

i remember years ago reading about how many children don’t know the traditional nursery rhymes. believe me, some make me cringe…either for what they say or what they mean or what the are rooted in. but there is a place and a way to incorporate these “way back when” things into life now. and “patty-cake,Continue reading “b is for {patty cake patty cake} baker’s man”

horrible quality of video…but a glimpse of the somewhat risky, messy and fabulous play going on… and then there was the mud play today… we’re taking advantage of this warm weather!

oh, this was a good one.  we read our very familiar, we’re going on a bear hunt (several times!). we brainstormed what we thought were realistic colors of real live bears.  we acted our eating behaviors of real bears (fishing for salmon, pulling berries off bushes, eating honey from a hole…). we brought bears andContinue reading “b is for {we’re going on a} bear hunt”