Author Archives: Ms Kristin

i wish i had better pictures of the finished result, but this is it. we made paper and plastic bag footballs to punt during p week (a paper bag stuffed with plastic bags and taped up!). and really, this activity is best seen in action:  

we were gifted a couple of big boxes of these babies.  one activity was gluing them on a precut P shaped paper. and by using pink paper, we accomplished a quintuple p project: PINK PUFFY PACKING PELLET P {puzzle on the table is merely there as an observer, not as a participant} after everyone gotContinue reading “p is for {biodegradable} packing pellets”

thanks to some friends who got a new fridge, we had some BIG pieces of bubble wrap. we cut some up to small individual pieces, and we left some big!   hear the pop for yourself!

as soon as i made this tape track on the floor, i wondered why we don’t always have one (other than the fact that i need to pull up the tape at the end of each week before our cleaning friend comes). what is it in children that has them KNOW what to do withContinue reading “t is for track”

we do this exercise often…and it is amazing to see the natural progression.  if there is one big o shape on the paper, how many smaller ones can you make inside?  we use pens to ensure a really dark, fine line. and enter fancy vocabulary:  bigger, biggest, larger, largest, smaller, smallest, order, ascending, descending… the greatestContinue reading “o is for o drawing”