Author Archives: Ms Kristin

we’ve done quite a bit of this lately…drawing and dictating. this day we had some stickers as “starting points.” we talked about what our cat or dog might need and headed to the “scribble tables.” fellow teachers and parents and those who visit with children know how awkward the glance can be if a childContinue reading “s is for sticker art”

tonight is kindergarten pre-enrollment (aka kindergarten round-up) for our local school district (7 pm at the elementary school that your child will attend in 2012-2013). at preschool today, one friend brought these stones to show and tell and said, “they are for everybody since you are going to kindergarten!”  i have yet to find out ifContinue reading “w is for we wish you well, kindergarten-bound friends!”

we joined in on tinkerlab’s creative challenge…there are oodles of egg-celent ideas over there! our post-easter-pre-earth-day plans include making another BIG cooperative collage like we did with ellie the elephant a couple of years ago: then we painted them with white and black paint. we used leftover paint to paint paper and recall the conceptContinue reading “e is for egg carton challenge!”

our preschool is a ministry of our church, a member of mennonite church usa. while we don’t teach any specific theology or doctrine, we celebrate the birth of christ at christmas and the resurrection of christ at easter. we know families come from all different faith backgrounds and practices and we respect that. so whenContinue reading “e is for easter”

well, there were silly things like when we drank glue (really it was cream put in a cleaned out glue bottle), ate dirt (really it was pudding and oreos), saw a friend who grew his hair from short and blond to long and black (really it was a wig), shared our sneaky snacks with pastor renee,Continue reading “a is for april fool’s 2012 {edible paint, grilled cheese and a poopy diaper}”