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Love is a Circle
One of the best rewards for me as a preschool teacher is when I take a chance and launch into teaching the kids an idea, and I get the feedback that they get it. This concept, at least some of them...
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bellsAnd cockle shellsAnd pretty maids, all in a row.We are the proud recipient of the 2012 Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award! THANKS, MS....
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Homemade dog treats
This week, our focus is on giving love to animals. We read a book about a little boy who finds a bird with a hurt wing, and brings it home and nurses it back to health and healing. After surveying...
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Snow Cave
This is what happens when the kids are looking for some "work" to do outside, so we suggest shoveling. Then, some kids want to jump on the pile, knocking the carefully-shoveled snow down, so we...
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Helping Hands
This last week of February, we are still on the theme of love and friendship. We've designated this week as the Loving our World week. The idea is to teach about charity, helping, serving, etc. In...
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Preschool Ice Climbing
So that snow cave. . . it froze and became inaccessible for climbing inside. So, these two figured out they could ice climb up it! Who says garden hoes don't make good ice picks? They slammed the...
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A Special Visit
Today we had a special visit from our friend who has not been with us for many months. She has been bravely battling cancer: Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney, to be precise. The wonderful children's...
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Beauty in the Cold, Hard Snow
I have a pretty high tolerance for winter. I love snow and ice and even the crisp, cold air. I can put up with it for a long time, which puzzles people who think that living in this part of the...
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Team Work
I am convinced that one of the most fulfilling and stimulating experiences for young children is when they work together as a group on a "real life" project. Remember that snow cave we had? Well, as...
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ABOUT
Our mission is to provide nurturing and inspiring early childhood experiences in beautiful spaces that promote creativity, in order to meet a child's intrinsic need for self-expression and connection...
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Inch by Inch, Row by Row
These are exciting times. . . planning our new garden. Today we spread magazines out and passed out scissors, and the kids went to town looking at flowers, fruits, and vegetables. We made a collage of...
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April Preview
One thing that sets us apart, and that brings us pride is our commitment to being green. This includes green lifestyle choices, like recycling, re-using, cloth hand towels, green cleaning products,...
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New chickens
We started out with 4 chickens. We lost two. All through the winter, we had the 2 that were left, but come Spring, we have gained 4 more chickens! Three are full-grown and are getting fully oriented...
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Animal track
Here's an idea for a cold, rainy day: Making our very own animal track, and then testing how the different animals in our school respond to it. We built a track as long as we could with blocks.The...
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Furry visitor
We got a special visitor at school this week. Her name is Pansy, and she is a 5-day-old goat! What fun for the kids (well, all of us) to have the chance to watch and touch and listen and sense what a...
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I just love thinking about how comfortable she feels in this room, and with us as teachers. She brought a book to circle time and confidently announced, "I will be reading you a book." It was just...
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Garden Work Day
THANK YOU, parents and staff! We really appreciate all the help you provided on a Saturday, despite cold temps and icky weather. We were able to get our raised bed built, the compost bin assembled,...
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Work as Play
It's been said frequently that play is a child's work, and it's so true. I think, though, that it can be reversed, too. Work is also a child's play. When the kids we see are engaged in a job that...
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Sunflower House
Our preschoolers have been working on a long-term project for our yard, and it's starting to come together. It's a sunflower house! Earlier in the spring, they planted some seeds inside, and have been...
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Working on the Garden
We want to send out a BIG thanks to all the families who came to help with our Garden Work Day. It was a beautiful day, and much was accomplished, thanks to you all! You make this a wonderful...
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Baby/Toddler Wearing
We believe in baby wearing and toddler wearing. Here is some evidence of that! To read more about the benefits of wearing your baby and/or toddler, please follow this link and the links it leads you...
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Three Sisters
Our Saplings group got a special visit from Ms. Amanda, our Environmental Education Consultant and Garden Master. She led us through a project of planting a row of “three sister” sets in our front...
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Fabric Flowers
Our lesson on flowers last week was to explore different textures of flowers. We used the “feel” box to guess what was inside, distinguishing between soft flower pedals and fluffy dandelions, etc. By...
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Truck Experiments
Today, we had such a great example of child-led learning. One of the kids figured out on his own that it was fun to push the toy pick-up truck down the ramp. Next thing you know, he is experimenting...
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Wishes
One day in the early summer, as we were making our way inside for circle time, one of our kids stopped and gasped. He pointed up to the sky, saying it was beautiful. We looked, with great expectations,...
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