A week of animals and their adventures:  One of our most fun activity of the week was making spiders, the children couldn’t wait to take them home and show them to their pare[...]

Last week we continued with our Halloween decorations, you can see them now decorating our classroom ceilings and walls. With our 3 day week group we made colorful ghosts and very [...]

A form of instruction that seeks to “maximize each student’s growth by meeting each student where she is and helping the student to progress. In practice, it involves o[...]

There is a sequence in which children develop the pencil grip which is fairly predictable. First is the basic palmar grasp – child child wraps all his fingers around the penc[...]

For our beach week, we focused on sand.  The children enjoyed touching it with their fingers and scooping it with theirs hands. For the most part they were really good at keeping i[...]

This week we introduced a new set of blocks for our work time. Our goal is to keep on adding materials to our classroom that helped our children work together as a team and learn t[...]

The difference between what a child can do by him/her self and what the child can do with guidance or help from a more expert child or adult.[...]

After children experiment with putting pen to paper, some of the details need to be worked out.   First being orientation of letters.  Not all children are naturals at their anti-c[...]

August is a great time to expect warm weather…so we had hoped.  It is Seattle after all.  Even though the weather did not support our efforts, we continued with our plan to e[...]

This week we introduced two new toys for work time. Everybody showed a lot of interest for our new items, the blender and the train with the train tracks. We are slowly introducing[...]