TK Times Blog

I told you they were beautiful!

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 06:36:26 -0700

I told you they were beautiful! Look at these kids! Could I ask for a better class? I don’t think so!
The back row (initials only)
CC, SS, AM, CD
Front row:
SD, VA, SC, CMD, SH
All the kids in the back row and SD in the front row are “TK veterans”..they’ve been here a year or more, and they are doing a great job helping me with the other four kids in the front row, which are the “TK newbies”, and they are adding SO MUCH to TK.
Not pictured are the three “babies”, TS, TO and KT, although TS and TO are well into toddlerhood, and TS is even starting to integrate into preschool in small increments, but he doesn’t seem too fond of our choice in Circle Time music!

Something else that I think is SUPER cool is how well our younger children are taking to Ms. Ida’s Spanish class. They love her!
Click here to see a movie of SD in his first day of Spanish. It is a MOVIE, so I am not sure if it will take a long time to load on your computer....but I think it is worth the wait.

Overall our first couple days of school have been GREAT! I have been so happy with our new kids, and so proud of our “old” kids.

One of our new kids said, while standing near me:
“I am _________________ (name omitted for security),” with his hand on his chest. Then he points to me and says “Who are YOU?” as he points to me.
I responded:
“I am Terri!” with a smile.
“Oh,” he says “YOU are the Terri.” and he walks away, thoughtfully....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
I loved it!

Monarch caterpillar transforms into a cocoon

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:25:15 -0700

Ho...Hum..what..another miracle? We at TK are just surrounded by them! This place must be...MAGIC or something!

Our Brine Shrimp hatched yesterday. They are SO TINY that you couldn’t even see them in the container. The actual shrimp are actually smaller than the eggs..they look like specks of dust, if you could even see them. The only way the kids could actually SEE them was if I put some in a clear syringe (no needle) and let each kid look individually, with a flashlight pointed right at the syringe. It was like looking into a microscope (that I wish I HAD!!!)..they looked like little teeny germs swimming around in the water.

But then, the Brine shrimp weren’t even the biggest event of the day! It was the MONARCH CATERPILLAR! Strange things started happening to our caterpillar. If we had seen it on TV we would’ve thought it was science fiction! But we saw it in REAL LIFE! WOW!

You have just GOT to see the photos! I am so pleased. My newly remodeled caterpillar cage...aka “butterfly birthing room”, is working out as well as I could possibly have wanted it to. When the great transformation time came, I took the screen off and the kids could watch it, up close and FOR REAL, without having to look through glass or plastic or screen, and I was able to take some great photos! Just wait until you see!

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS

Our sea life theme progresses...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:05:07 -0700

What with all of the work with putting together a new TK aquarium, I felt that a “Sea Life” theme was only too appropriate for the rest of our summer. Little did I know that Mother Goose Time was going to be using the same theme for the month of October! Hahaha! Good thing we are enjoying it!

I’ll cut to the chase..Here are the PHOTOS of your kids you are all looking for ....

CLICK HERE TO SEE US MAKING SANDY FISH

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE OCEAN COLLAGES

CLICK HERE TO SEE PRICKLY SEA URCHINS

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL STARFISH

CLICK HERE TO SEE MISC GREAT PHOTOS!

Fritillary Freedom Day!

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 06:22:29 -0700

Once agin, we at TK have been blessed with watching the miracle of the butterfly lifecycle....thanks to Ms. Ida! She plants butterfly attracting plants in her beautiful back yard (next door to TK) , simply so we can capture a few caterpillars to put in the TK classroom. She is even training some of the vines to crawl over her fence into TK, so the kids have been able to see the cocoons up close in the jar in our classroom, and then go out and find them in our backyard! Quite an adventure!

Last year we did Monarch butterflies. This year Ms. Ida introduced a new plant in her garden, the Passion Flower Plant,

which attracts the Fritillary Butterfly!

I captured a few Fritillary Caterpillars and put them in the TK classroom, in a large jar.

Sure enough we got cocoons within about a week,

and then......

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE AMAZING PHOTOS OF THE BUTTERFLIES EMERGING!

Fishie Freedom Day!

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 06:59:57 -0700

Yesterday was a very exciting day at TK! As a class, we have been waiting and waiting for our new 55 gallon aquarium to be ready to add fish!

CLICK HERE to learn what we have been learning about FISHLESS WATER CYCLING.

then...

CLICK HERE to watch a video of the kids on the day our water test FINALLY came up “positive”.

then...

CLICK HERE to see photos of the big event, the moving of our fish from the little 10Gallon tank to their new, spacious 55 gallon tank!

St. Patrick’s Day!

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:09:44 -0700

St. Patricks Day was the most fun I’ve had in AGES! I like these “little” holidays far better than the BIG COMMERCIALIZED holidays, because I can make it a special TK celebration, in my OWN fashion, without any pre-conceived notions shoved down the kids throats from the TV commercials bombarding them every 3 minutes. They aren’t disappointed, no matter what we do, because they aren’t expecting anything! Have you EVER seen a TV commercial for St. Patricks day? Well, neither have I. Lets hope it stays that way.

CLICK HERE to see the photos and story of a GREAT DAY!