"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."     -Mary Lou Cook One thing that most of our sweet kindergartners have in spades is imagination.  With a little bit of time and a lot...

Squeals of excitement escaped our sweet little ones as I told them that their books would be placed on our special bookshelf, alongside the books of our featured author, Eric Carle.  After that, the books will be added into our library book bins in the correct...

We had so much fun this week doing fairy tale stem projects.  I have been teaching a Fairy Tale Stem class for ACE for the past four weeks and some of our kindergarteners are in it.  Well, they told their classmates all about it and the rest of our precious little...

The zookeeper asked our sweet little ones to help the zoo by making a project that would teach others why certain animals can live in Alaska and others cannot.  The project will be displayed and used in their classroom to help teach students why The Alaska Zoo...

For the past few weeks, we've been working to answer the question, "How can we take care of and share the resources we have at home, at school, and in our community?"  The entire investigation started when a mysterious pile of trash and recyclables appeared on...

We've been exploring new reading spots these past few weeks.  Of course, there's just something so appealing about being permitted to sit under or even ON the tables or behind our big, cozy chairs.  But, the ultimate goal isn't just to make reading more fun...

We had so much fun this week doing fairy tale stem projects.  I have been teaching a Fairy Tale Stem class for ACE for the past four weeks and some of our kindergarteners are in it.  Well, they told their classmates all about it and the rest of our precious...

So far in Math this year, we've been working on number fluency within 5 and 10.  This includes quickly recognizing a quantity and composing and decomposing numbers (e.g. 2 and 3 makes 5; 4 and 1 makes 5).  We use special math tools, called five frames and ten frames,...

​ I'm sure this is no surprise, but one of my favorite things to do is to read.  I am always mesmerized by the way authors craft a great story and carefully string words together to make it sound just right.  Reading teaches us new things, transports us to new places,...

One of my goals this year is for your little ones to see themselves as readers, writers, creators, scientists, mathematicians, explorers, and friends.  This week, we became scientists as we investigated the question, "How can I know what the weather will be like on my...