This month's theme at day school is "Arctic Animals". I figured it was seasonally appropriate (even though we've barely seen snow). I had grandiose plans of making lots of crafts having to do with arctic animals, but I didn't make it to the craft store before the school week started so I've kinda been winging it with the crafting. I had purchased these cute little arctic animals from Michael's with the hope of making a sensory bin with play snow to talk about camouflage, bu

Yesterday, I took the whole preschool on a field trip to the Denver Aquarium. All month we have been learning about seahorses, starfish, sharks, stingrays, fish, octopus, and other fun creatures that live beneath the sea. The field trip was a way to enhance their learning by taking them out of our Longmont location, and into a novel learning environment. It was such a thrill to watch their eyes light up as they went from exhibit to exhibit. I felt a surge of pride as they