One of the major tasks of early education is helping children begin to acquire the skills which will help them become readers. Teachers use a multitude of techniques, games and activities to help teach these skills, but the love of reading and the desire to learn to...

One of the things which is most wonderful about Anchorage is that it is such a culturally-rich place to live. Because our population is so diverse, it is certain that we and our children will have friends, classmates and co-workers of many different ethnicities and...

​This week in the Beluga classroom as we have been preparing for winter break, we have had LOTS of holiday fun! We have been painting and crafting every day, and made several holiday gifts. The children's excitement has grown each day! We began the month of December...

​This week in Early Kindergarten we have been having lots of fun as we have explored our theme “All About Bread”. We began our discussion by making a list of all the different kinds of breads we could think of. Also, since we had made bread in the bread maker the...

​For the past couple of weeks, we have played outdoors a lot and experienced one of the joys of winter weather: SNOW! We have extended several of our recess times to allow the children opportunities to play in the snow building snowmen. The children were astonished at...

Every year it is so much fun to do a pumpkin theme with the children. They love it because to them it means that Halloween is coming, but it also provides rich learning opportunities.  We discuss the life cycle of a pumpkin, and then we use our senses to discuss what...

​Wow! It seems impossible that October is almost over! In spite of the fact that we are rapidly moving into winter weather here in Anchorage, the calendar technically still says “fall”, and we are continuing our study of pumpkins and scarecrows. ​We have been studying...

Class jobs are an integral part of helping the classroom community function effectively as well as provide a sense of responsibility to each student. The pictures above are of a few of our students doing their jobs (door-holder, line leader, light helper, calendar...

We have been having so much fun in the Beluga class as we have been learning about fall this week!  We began our study of leaves with a leaf hunt around the PNA parking lot and then through the woods.  As we walked, we talked about the things we could notice with our...

​This has been a wonderful month as we have gotten to know one another in our Beluga pod! I love that I teach in the Beluga classroom because I think that it is such great metaphor for preschool.  Belugas are highly intelligent animals, and, according to National...