Ms Kristin

r is for rubber band boards

technically, these are geoboards. but we call them rubber band boards. they are a well liked activity. a great opportunity to create in the abstract. this is a rocket ship: expect to spend a lot of clean up time finding wayward rubber bands (or pieces of them) around the room. that is when i announceContinue reading “r is for rubber band boards”

c is for ceiling

whenever possible, put things on the ceiling. we’ve put tucked our blue collage and yellow collaged in with the ceiling tiles.

w is for we wish you well

when children arrive at preschool, they find their name tags (which have a magnet on back) and stick it over their photo on our Picture Board (a cookie sheet with photos on it. the photos also have magnets on the back which lets the children rearrange the photos as they like). when we gather forContinue reading “w is for we wish you well”

w is for web

another year, another web. this time an elephant came out to play. our egg carton elephant named ellie. one elphant went out to play upon a spider’s web one day she had such ENORMOUS fun that she called for another elephant to come… two elephants went out to play… (you get the idea!) :: ::Continue reading “w is for web”

p is for paper ball

for great arm muscle work, make a ball (or snow ball or hail ball) out of crumpled paper. then fore great fine motor work, cut or tear tape to keep the paper ball together. make as big as children want to.