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August 2011 - Posts
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Oh the first day back is a wreck. I’m lucky that I don’t actually have students the first day of school. We screen and meet our new sprouts the first two days. With many children registering right before school begins, it’s still a whirlwind of activity Read More...
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As we prepare to head back next week, we held our Open House to give new sprouts and their parents an opportunity to come in, meet us, see the room, and just calm some of the pre-school jitters. While I simply love meeting the new kids, the parents always Read More...
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Thank you to all who participated in the giveaway. The four winners have been notified via email. If I don’t hear back from them in a week, I will use the random number generator to pick new winners. I’m thrilled to be able to share these wonderful books Read More...
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Yes, you read that correctly. This is only the FIRST giveaway of the amazing, wonderful, dare I say it, brilliant, series of Stuart J. Murphy’s I See I Learn series of books. Murphy has created a cast of characters that every preschool and kindergarten Read More...
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Well here we have it. The winners of the Back to School Giveaway. Thank you all for reading and participating. There were almost three hundred entries. I am using a random number generator to pick each winner. Drum roll please… Winner One (receiving a Read More...
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Do you remember where you were on September, 11, 2001? I sure do. I was in a different world than the one I occupy today… I was working in corporate America… in Chicago… in the Sears Towers. As the emails trickled in about ‘an airplane hitting the World Read More...
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Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve cleaned out the antique armoire in my house. It was a gift from my mother too many years ago to remember. It’s really old – I think it’s from the Civil War era. It’s held together with pegs and fits together like a puzzle. Read More...
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So, if I go into my classroom tomorrow to start getting ready, does that mean summer is officially over? Ugh. My classroom was tiled this summer, so everything was gutting and placed in the hallway and is in a large pile in the center of the room right Read More...
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Well I’m on vacation with a fellow kindergarten teacher and dear friend and had an amazing experience today. We took a whale watching boat out to see what the big mammals were up to. Now I’ve been on these tours before. Usually you’re lucky to see a whale Read More...
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