Author Archives: Ms Kristin

thank you, families, for helping us make x week even better.  new puzzles, puppets, trays: shells in the water table with our playmobil ship from home (we even made the water salty, though i don’t know if anyone realized it!): and for the first time ever, we rigged up a sail for our rocking boatContinue reading “x is for x week props”

well, this month is national child abuse prevention month and it also hosts the “week of the young child.” these are  two opportunities to move towards treating children with dignity and respect.  a friend/former preschool mama who has a friend offered one opportunity to change one child’s life.  i keep thinking about him as heContinue reading “o is for opportunity”

we’ve had quite a good number of easter discussions around here.  while our preschool is a ministry of my church, it isn’t our practice to teach specific theology or doctrine.  we want children to feel the unconditional love and acceptance that we believe god has for us all.  when one preschool friend brought a paperContinue reading “e is for easter”

if you should find permanent marker all over a mirror i hope you find a whole gaggle of girls who enjoy tracing the permanent marker with a dry erase marker….both wipe right off!

I am the Earth And the Earth is me. Each blade of grass, Each honey tree, Each bit of mud, And stick and stone Is blood and muscle, Skin and bone. (black pepper play doh…wonderfully satisfying!  just use pepper in place of some flour and add black food coloring)