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...

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 ...

One can't really talk about art with preschoolers, without talking about paint. It doesn't get me as jazzed up as talking about glue, sci...

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...

As a preschool teacher, I have a love-hate relationship with cooking at school. This might be due to my tenuous relationship with cooking...

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 ...

This post contain affiliate links. I would like to subtitle this post, super-awesome children's books that deal with tough subject of dea...

It is getting close to back to school time. Well, I know some of you are there already. I do love the wonderful freedom that is summer...

We are gearing up to back to school time. If you are like me, you are thinking about what you would like to keep the same in your classro...

If you Google "Preschool Calendar" There is plenty written and created on the topic. There are the usual products; pocket charts to fill ...

This post contains affiliate links. Oh, Shyness. My old friend. My former enemy. My constant companion. While sitting down to write this ...

If you would have asked me over my many years of preschool teaching, what preschool offers children, I would have talked about the import...

Hi, all. Recently, my sister said about my 3 year old niece, "She always asks me what time it is. Or what day. Like she has somewhere to ...

This post is a continuation of my last article all about how words give us ways to capture abstract ideas. Once we can contain an idea, a...