Today’s preschool storyhour was dedicated to the five senses. We did a reverse storytime: activity/craft first. The reading last. The normal group was not in attendance which actually worked to my advantage. Since today’s group was smaller there was no pulling of Miss Rachée in 18 different directions. I set up exploration/discovery stations for each sense and let the kids…
Words and thoughts from Rachée
or after the snow day, an avalanche of work. The best thing about snow days are also the worst thing: no work. My return to work was a return to a pile of books on my desk, a ton* of e-mail waiting for my response, SIX voice mails (although not one of them was the phone calls I was waiting…
The sun did shineBut it was too cold to playI sat in the house andEnjoyed a snow day! It started as a warning: March was bringing a Nor’easter and we all needed to prepare for the six to fourteen inches of snow that was coming our way. I had gone food shopping (we were close to doing our best Macguyver’s…
Is it March already? February flew by so fast that I am still waiting for Phil. Remember a time when you thought time was moving so slow it moved backwards. Now time is moving so fast that one can barely think straight! Whew! Let’s see… With March on the horizon here what am I going to focus on this month?…
As a child of the 80’s, my Mario experience was in the form of Donkey Kong, Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros. On Atari (I am indeed that old) we would play Donkey Kong for hours, hands cramping from that joystick. When we got a Nintendo, my sister would play for hours, turning Mario into a squirrel, rescuing Peach and…