Author Archives: Ms Kristin

we had a short week of preschool last week. there were two days to wonder and explore the changing of the seasons: paper bag trunk making with paper and colored tape leaves, real colored leaf hunts, jumping in imaginary piles of leaves, acknowledging that some people will call it “autumn” and some people will callContinue reading “a is for autumn”

i will never grow tired of seeing our plastic animals lined up, sorted, classified, pushed in play dough, washed in water, wrapped in toilet paper, hauled around in trucks, traced with crayons… they are one of the toys that is available all day every day…and “we could never have too many because we could justContinue reading “a is for animal”

we are doing journal work daily. here was our a week work. sorting crayons to find the realistic apple colors…coloring apple shapes…writing letter a shapes with sharpie markers…getting apple scented scratch and sniff stickers like ms. kristin had when she was little…it was awesome. :: :: :: and a few friends got a sparkly aContinue reading “a is for apple journal work”

“you mean we can move the paint with our hands?”the first full week of preschool is complete. all the children have graced the room. i’ve been amazed at the calm and ease of our time together. we will follow the alphabet through and last week we started with a. while there are detailed lesson plansContinue reading “a is for apple”

it has started again…a preschool room filled with acts of danger. climbing up our indoor slide, getting out of the way just in time, standing on a chair to reach the top of a block structure, sliding across the hard floor in socks….whew. but today I learned about the most dangerous place in our school.Continue reading “d is for danger”