I have described at length, how we approach painting at the easel. And, our general guidelines for planning a week's worth of art activit...

As a teacher, it can be tricky to find just the book you need to share with your class. Sometimes there is a topic you are studying, but ...

Cooking in the classroom is a common practice in the preschools that I have seen. Of course that might change in the fall of 2020, due t...

And what a year it has been! I am pretty sure that there is nothing I can say about the absurdity of 2020 that has not already been said....

I don't know about you, but I have always wanted and struggled to introduce sewing to my preschool students. For years I have done some ...

I will start by saying that I can't promise that I won't get carried away talking about scissors and tape. I might get swept up in an alm...

I spent a long time talking about the how's and why's about introduing glue to young children. And that was just plain old glue on paper....

In about week three of our school year, when most of the children come to school happily, or at least they will let us teachers dry their...

How do you set up and plan your art activities each week at school? If you create lesson plans for your class following using a theme bas...

Early Childhood care and education (can they be separated?), has been in the news more and more these days. I've read that it will be a h...

Starting a new anything is often accompanied by a variety of emotions. Excitement is one. Trepidation is the other. Even for people with ...