The Instructor of the Month award is our method of celebrating educators who stay out our core values—compassion, humility, integrity, loyalty, and self-discipline—each day. We’re excited to announce that our 2026 February Nationwide Instructor of the Month is Ms. Heyley from Little Sunshine’s Playhouse of The Woodlands. The management staff at The Woodlands had such variety phrases to…
On Tuesday, I paraphrased John Dewey, writing, “Two kids collectively can maintain conduct or a challenge that neither would keep alone. And that conduct or challenge would possibly nicely be mischief.” And generally that mischief rises to the extent that it impacts the remainder of the group as disruptive, scary, and even hazardous. The instance…
By Stephanie Rino, Director of Curriculum and Studying From the second they enter the world, youngsters are speaking. Even earlier than sturdy verbal language develops, youngsters are continually expressing concepts, emotions, and discoveries. Communication is without doubt one of the most pure elements of early childhood. In a Reggio Emilia preschool, this understanding types a…
var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “(A)motion is character.” As has usually been the case, this artists was simply asserting one thing that trendy scientists are actually confirming: not solely do our actions reveal who we’re, in addition they turn into who we’re. In different phrases, neuroscience and sociological analysis are discovering that after we…
The boys have been guffawing amongst themselves, huddled collectively like conspirators. Earlier, I had tried to method them, however once I received close to they clammed up, not precisely feigning innocence, however they undoubtedly had one thing happening between them that they wished saved to themselves. Younger kids at present have so little alternative to exist…
At Little Sunshine’s Playhouse, our Creatively Shine® curriculum theme Each Baby Is an Artist invitations kids to discover creativity in all its varieties. All through this theme, kids uncover that artwork isn’t restricted to portray or drawing. It will also be storytelling, music, motion, theater, structure, and a lot extra. As they experiment with totally…
Most of what I’ve written right here over the previous 17 years is grounded in my expertise as each a guardian and instructor on the Woodland Park Cooperative Preschool which is affiliated with North Seattle Faculty by its guardian schooling program. That program is now in jeopardy and I am writing immediately to ask you…
This publish might include affiliate hyperlinks. See Disclosure for extra data. November is a month stuffed with traditions and seasonal modifications that preschoolers like to discover. A November preschool theme can deliver pumpkins, turkeys, gratitude, and household celebrations into the classroom in ways in which really feel each acquainted and thrilling. The…
The opposite day, I Googled one thing and the highest end result was an AI abstract, a part of which learn so much like one thing I wrote a number of years in the past. To the AI’s credit score, there have been a number of supply hyperlinks supplied, and I am positive that no…
I took a ebook outdoors, organising in a shaded chaise lounger with a cup of espresso. The solar was out. It was going to get sizzling, however could be nice for a pair hours but, particularly with the mild breeze. The mocking birds had been speaking, creatively mixing their trills and titters. My spouse could…
The common language is motion. It’s the one language that each one residing issues share. To maneuver is a necessary facet of our definition of what it means to be alive. Verbal language helps us talk about our pondering, speaking in regards to the previous and future, and coping with abstractions, the issues that need…
We have all skilled the phenomenon of genius within the stairwell, that flash of brilliance that involves us when it is somewhat too late. It is that second once we notice what we must always have stated within the job interview. It is when the right zinger involves us after we have already hung up…