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the week before halloween was e week. I made a big “spooky” spider web and connected it to the letter e because 1. there is that silly song about the elephants who go out to play upon a spider’s web one day and 2. spiders have egg sacks. masking tape was added all week long.Continue reading “m is for mama spider”

oh e, you tricky letter with so many sounds or no sound at all.

plastic easter eggs inspired some egg work in our journals…as well as a clever “keep your eye on the blue egg” game… a conversation about eggs proved trickier than I thought it would. and then the egg drawing begins…

what I intended to be a friendly direction could have translated into feelings of inadequacy. I know I have the ability to project, to imagine the worst, to create stories before they happen, but as I taped up my first sign, “cut on the lines,” I could easily imagine a large number of children whoContinue reading “d is for directions”

this year more than others I’m instinctively looking for indoor opportunities for us to use our physical selves. climbing over, climbing under, jumping, rolling, etc. we were gifted a small door a couple of years ago. during d week we used it as a climbing ramp. tucked between a wall and a shelf, with addedContinue reading “d is for door ramp”