Category Archives: The Daily Update

i is one of those tricky letters that can make different sounds.  we talked about the long i sound one day and explored with ice. each child was given a piece of ice, shared a plate with a friend and without using their mouth, tried to melt it! a trip to the water table wasContinue reading “i is for ice”

oh, before we turn all advent-y on you, let me wrap up the thanksgiving goodness: we made harvest corn by taking turns rolling paint down a length of paper, letting it dry, cutting it out and adding brown paper stalks. :: :: :: :: we played thanksgiving bingo that i made.  all the cards hadContinue reading “t is for thanksgiving wrap up”

for smiles, energy, joy, and fake candlesticks, we are thankful. happy thanksgiving from us to you!

we used to have tires in our playground  with designs painted on them.  the kids would stack them, roll them down the hill, etc.  we planted flowers in some of them that lined the sidewalk.  we didn’t take them with us when we moved to the retirement home for our 7 year gig there. iContinue reading “t is for (calling all) tires!”

any guesses why we moved circle time to the block rug for the day?   one day there was a class wide game of “house” and “museum play room” going on.  this meant moving furniture and a lot of fake sleeping. the next day the returning students enlightened the new students on the joys ofContinue reading “h is for (playing) house”