Author Archives: Ms Kristin

a popular stopping point in the museum is their old toy display. after the first day of camp, the campers also know about the drawers at the bottom of the case that open to reveal toys they can play with! we played with spinning tops, whirly-gigs, corn cob dolls, jacks, jacob’s ladders and marbles (allContinue reading “p is for pioneer toys”

a simple line of string nailed to the wall worked great as a laundry line! we had two kinds of clothespins and lots of laundry to hang.  i think the most significant topic of conversations (and most applicable?) to the preschoolers lives is ELECTRICITY.  PLASTIC is a close second.  so, way-back-when laundry meant no washingContinue reading “p is for pioneer laundry”

well, we weren’t pioneer purists in our sculpting. i gave them tape. but with this wood table being offered as an often unsupervised “work time” station and there being 19 preschoolers, i wasn’t ready for hammers and nails.  i think the museum visitors probably appreciate that as well. i planned on having this wood tableContinue reading “p is for pioneer sculpting”

i spent the week at the local museum leading a day camp for preschoolers. i realized so clearly how different this gig is from the preschool year.  a couple of my top goals for the preschool school year are letting the environment evolve according to children’s needs and desires and to build relationships between peersContinue reading “p is for pioneer classroom”

we wanted each child to have a large letter to hold up during our end of the year celebration.  this letter would be the first letter of their first name (we call it their “golden letter”). my initial plan was for children to paint within the outline of their letter, but then i realized howContinue reading “p is for (group) painting”