Author Archives: Ms Kristin

i brought our little wooden van from home for the week.  there were quite a few doll house people and animals getting rides. then we moved it to our paint box and used it lever style. eventually we added paint…known as “lava” since we were big into volcanoes this week! :: :: :: :: weContinue reading “v is for van”

:: :: :: :: by mid week most kids in the classes knew that we had to mix vinegar with baking soda to make our volcanoes erupt.  but by looking at the bottles it wasn’t clear which was vinegar and which was water…so, we had a smell-test: closing your eyes can help focus on theContinue reading “v is for volcano”

or if you decide to write “tea t” but you don’t leave a space, then you’ve written “teat”  and that’s a little funny. each child got a tea bag, snipped off the top, used those little fingers to pull out pinches of tea to sprinkle on the glue T shape.

as i’ve said before, we don’t usually limit the number of kids at a certain area. but oh. my. this flax seed table situation needed something. it was really hard for it to remain constructive (i.e.  in the table). thanks to my friend and co-worker, we emptied the whole thing out only to put itContinue reading “t is for two at a time”

water down a gutter is oh, so much fun!! and after checking the weather, we headed outside for another gutter! just as much fun!