I know that I cried on my sons last day of Kindy and I am afraid that was two days ago and I am still sad.  I know that this means that I chose the right Kindy all those months ago.  I know he loved it not because of...

Each term in a classroom you enrich your students lives by providing with them with a “text rich environment”.  A text rich environment is one that provides children with many different forms of texts to read, create, play and explore with.   How do you create a text rich...

Someone has been getting up to mischief at our house! Tricksy has just been hanging around!  He didn’t get the initial reaction we had intended!  Master O was actually a bit scared of him but Little Miss A promptly began treating him like a baby doll! Do you have...

Every spare space in our home has been overflowing with Christmas paraphenalia! Christmas cards, labels, calendars, craft and lists.  Remember our organisation station?  I still had a second one of these clever IKEA storage boxes, so it’s time to get this Christmas sorted and create a “Christmas” station. So...

Remember how I was looking for an injection of colour for our home?  Well for this month the colours will be….red, green, silver and gold and all things Christmasey!!!  Is Christmasey even a word?  So today I am starting with some Christmas Subway Art over the entry table.  The...

I know that I LOVE Christmas but it is not until school finishes that I really get into the Christmas spririt! I know that school is now over for another year!  This is such a time of mixed emotions, as much as you look forward to the holidays ahead...

Happy 1st of December!!!  The countdown to Christmas has now officially begun!  It is now time to get your head out from under the tinsel  and start enjoying the festive season!  This year we are preparing for Christmas in 3 ways and none of them have anything to do...

Having a Christmas photo taken is a Christmas tradition in our house!  Every year I dress the kids up in their Christmas outfits and take a photo for a Christmas Card to be sent to the relatives and friends near and far!  Looking back at the last four years...

There are Reindeer Crackles and angel wings to be made.  Christmas cards to be written, Santa photos taken, christmas presents bought, but today…. I choose today to breathe.  I need to, to survive.  To just take it slow. Well at least slower. To savour some extra time at Kindy...

I was running out of Christmas snack ideas!  Every year come November the endless run of Christmas concerts, picnincs and parties begin!  with the words “Bring a Plate” written accross most invitations, I was beginning to run out of Christmas food ideas!  This little guy was a creation for...