It's time to garden!

Today we began to till the earth and prepare our garden for planting! We have a small space at the back of our school where we can plant some seeds and watch the fruits of our labour grow!

I can't wait to see what manages to flourish, so that we can have a feast for our eyes and our tummies. Last year we had some great flowers and got to munch on some beans!

Update:

The seeds went in today and we watered them with our new watering cans!

In School Field Trip

Today we had some special visitors!
For toddlers it's often easier for special events / visitors to come to us instead of the toddlers going on long field trips - which become overwhelming and exhausting for them. When we are in our own environment we enjoy ourselves so much more!

A tree frog!

Hamster

Rat

Gecko!

Skinny Pig

Dove

Hedgehog

Chinchilla

Rabbit

And a tortoise!

Created Resources & my hobby!

I Love my new cricut - a die cutting machine, that is not only a time saver but great for inspiring more and more ideas. I have created bulletin boards  - which were great fun - and a few personal cards to family. Now I am setting forth to create some story board characters for circle time in my classroom. I only wish there were more hours in the day to create all that I want to have in my 'stash'!

This is a felt board story I put together with cricut die cut pieces & pictures (heads) from off of a preschool site ( I now cannot recall which one - if you know let me know so I can give credit)

It's Garage Sale Day!

All above for $4.25

All for $1 - the Lion roars!

All above $6

So for $16.10 another great haul! :)

Oh and I got 2 little tikes red plastic chairs to use in our new mud garden that we are gonna create for the summer. Clear contact paper and a metalic spice rack with containers that have clear lids - which I will use for science activities. Plus a gym bag to replace a broken one at work - to hold thier parachute and balls. All for about $8

Bulletin Board transformation

I like to transform my bulletin boards - instead of completely wiping them out - for the sake of time and saving materials. Plus some things just make sense, for the next idea going up to view.

Here is a 'new' Spring board, which will lead us to 'Mothers Day'. The collages are there for Moms to coo over, when they come for our special Mothers Day celebration. I find parents need things to open up conversations with one another.

So from Easter to this new board:

Learning from our environment!

Our school is in a business complex that has been under construction the entire time we have been there - 2 years. So the children have many learning experiences right outside our window!
Today we watched as a construction crew unloaded a large flatbed truck with a crane.

Very exciting!      

Never underestimate the importance of these 'little' moments of observation and a quick Q & A.

Related post!

Saturdays garage sale finds!

Only a few sales - 4 to be exact - but hey look what I got!

Loads of FREE books!

Say what?!? -  All for $5

To top it off - more free stuff! 


Recordable CDs and jewel cases.






Construction paper!




Then I also got an office chair for $5 and a Flat screen computer screen for $15.




Did I ever say I love garage sales! ;)