this activity was not in my lesson plans.  i warned my new teacher friend, ms carol, to get used to this.

i pulled the red, yellow and green inch blocks for sorting (apple colors for a week).  then i remembered that since we were at church, there are several mini tongs and colored cups (thank you, mona and george!).

the concentration was incredible.

look at those faces!

look at the cooperation.

a new twist to the experience was assigning each child a color.  look at those busy hands.

and for the record, this was a little tricky!

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ms Carol and I spent our day in a Conscious Discipline training (thank you, Ms. Shana).

Now we’re even more ready to honor the little moments and little things with these little ones.

Friday begins the joy.

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MW class:

TTH class:

F class:

um, teddy will get to do messy projects and daily show and tell as well!

p.s.  thank you for all your enthusiasm about these photo schedule cards.  i encourage you to do it!

these are our new schedule cards.  they are photos of teddy in our new classroom.  each photo has a magnet strip on the back so we can easily rearrange our day as needed.  while things may be in a different order, these are parts of each school day.  the children also enjoy rearranging them (like eating snack and then washing hands.  funny stuff.)

click here to see daily routine hand out bigger!