

Preschool: Friendships
“What is an echo?” a teacher asked to preface the beloved book Little Beaver and the Echo by Amy MacDonald, a Falmouth resident. One...


Pre-Primary: “What does ‘tire’ begin with?”
As we return to school after a long break, the children are bursting with energy and the need for new challenges. Appearing on the...


Pre-Primary: The Kindness Jar...
Kindness has been a focus at circle time over the last month. We have read books about how to be kind, practiced how to speak kindly to...


Seedlings: Developing a Sense of Time
We recently celebrated our first birthday circle with the group in the Seedlings classroom. At first circle we entered the classroom and...


Preschool: The Movable Alphabet
“Sss…sss…ssss…sun!” a child exclaimed as he proudly placed a toy sun into his dump truck and rolled it back to the work rug. A teacher...


Kindergarten: The Movable Alphabet
“BBB…..oh it’s a ‘b’ at the beginning of box!” the child remarks as he looks through the Movable Alphabet box for the letter b. He...


Cooking with Kids Can Be Fun!
Few experiences are as much fun for children as cooking. Cooking offers connections to many learning opportunities from math to science,...


Seedlings: Friends Learn by Watching
What does a child get from just “Watching”? As parents we want to see our child as part of the group, actively in the mix. But there...


Preschool: Story Time
“Maybe he is not a good swimmer like me, thought Rabbit, and he jumped into the river and swam to the other side. But as he pulled...


Pre-Primary: A Letter A Day…
Debbie has begun presenting letters at circle. Each day, we see the letter, hear what sound that letter makes, practice sky writing the...