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, scissors, and my belove...

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

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 hot topic in the upco...

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It is getting close to back to school time. Well, I know some of you are there already. But, I am at the part of summer vacation where I am a little (or mo...

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 classroom. What are some new...

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

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

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

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 be." I heard a simil...

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, an object, an emotion...

Oh, humans. We love to observe, find patterns, make connections, and categorize things to help us make sense of the world. We do it from the time we are pudg...

As a preschool teacher, I am an avid reader and critic of children's picture books. And when a book is good, The 700th reading is just as exciting as the fir...

The Story Inside the Book A long time ago, about 17 years now, my son Max was a young child who could best be described as "slow to warm." Oh, he was filled w...

In my last post, I told you all about what I create here at Tiny Pumpkin Press - custom made storybooks for children that tell true stories of their lives an...

Hello, and welcome to Tiny Pumpkin Press! First, allow me to introduce myself. I am Aliza. A mother to teenage boys, a wife, a preschool teacher, and a somew...