Author Archives: Ms Kristin

a silver lining of having to move furniture every friday in preparation for using the space as a church community on sunday is the wide open space we create.  if we do this at our regular end of the day clean up, we take advantage of the big room feel. this week:  ice skating onContinue reading “i is for indoor ice skating”

this valentine corner of ours isn’t necessarily unique to our classroom.  we always have our “project shelf” stocked with supplies and when a different supply is requested, it’s usually offered…but this corner feels special. maybe it’s all the doilies.  or stickers.  or envelopes.  or having the glitter table so close.  or free access to glueContinue reading “v is for valentine corner”

oh, goodness, we’ve had a good time the last two days. as we’ve been anticipating, we’re having a whole week of valentine fun.  this way everyone gets in on it.  children are invited to bring valentines.  we save them in the teacher kitchen until our “party” towards the end of the day.  after all, weContinue reading “v is for valentine exchange”

we’re spending feb 14-18 celebrating valentine’s day, but we got a head start last friday.   it was q week and part of our day was quilt exploration.  earlier in the week we used some precut thrifted squares to make 9 patch quilt blocks in any fabric/color pattern desired. this was after seeing a beautifulContinue reading “v is for valentine quilt”

we hung a quilt (what would i do without our dropped ceiling tiles?!?!) and added bells to the corners. this means that when the quilt is hit, there is a quiet jingle sound.  jump, kids, jump!