Author Archives: Ms Kristin

complete with a tornado, shoes turned ruby with glitter, a big map, wizard of oz tunes and sunflowers we honored our state’s 150th birthday! the children were invited to draw with chalk on our map…more trips taken as the week goes on.  we took it as an opportunity to introduce the concepts of north, south,Continue reading “k is for kansas day!”

that is what we call it….every time.  it’s quite a mouthful, but it has stuck.  when we sit for snack time, there is a lot of straggling in as kids finish washing hands, then we all settle and it’s loud.  then we announce what food there is more of and what has been given allContinue reading “s is for school family conversation”

not in my plans (how many times have i said that?!?!), but when i was emptying out our i spy table (which is technically a light table, but i had a piece of clear plexiglass made so that when we take the lights out, we have an i spy table), we had a bit ofContinue reading “s is for salt table”

after our march, we had hot warm chocolate in honor of dr. king’s birthday.  we really needed to warm up ourselves. a sweet ending to the day.

UPDATED 1/11/12 to add a copy of the printable! :: :: :: :: :: we made collage faces again this year starting with group painting a paper covered table. we stepped over to another table to make hand prints (and sneak a moment with the book). yes!  lots of brown paper:  just what we needContinue reading “m is for martin luther king jr wrap up”