I was playing with paper bags today. I was looking at some paper bags I had at home, thinking about Rachelle’s Creativity Challenge over at Tinkerlab … coming up with a child-directed project using paper bags. I love using paper bags to make BOOKS, and so the idea I submitted to the challenge was one that we did in preschool around Thanksgiving … making our Thankful Thanksgiving
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About 18 months ago I had heart surgery. Never in a million years did I think that at age 32 I would need to have surgery on my heart. For 20 years I was told I had a seizure disorder when in reality I was suffering from mini-stokes (TIA’s) that were being caused by two holes in my heart. I was born with the
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We are SO excited to be participating in this important fundraiser! In addition to “The Heart Book” – from now until Valentine’s Day, there will be some online auctions and giveaways each day to help raise additional funds for the American Heart Association. You are not required to donate in order to enter in any of these giveaways. We just want to help bring
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My family just came back from a wonderful event hosted by our church where we packaged meals for families in Kenya, Africa. Hundreds of people from all ages came and volunteered to pack food – from our church, our preschool and our community. It was AWESOME! It was beautiful to see families, boy and girl scout troops, lacrosse teams, EVERYONE … all working together!
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I belong to a group consisting of area directors; our primary focus is to provide affordable professional development opportunities to our staff. At our November meeting a couple of directors voiced their concern over loss of enrollment due to public, magnet and charter preschool opportunities being offered in their area. We decided to invite Senator Beth Bye(in photo) to our next meeting in order to
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First … here’s my disclaimer – I can take absolutely NO credit for this idea. Outside our window this morning is the first significant snow of the winter (unusual for here in Connecticut). So, my 6 year old bounces down the stairs with big plans of what she’ll do outside later today. And then, it hits her … “Hey, maybe Daddy can make me
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Below is the second post which provides tips on tax deductions for pre-kindergarten teachers from financial consultant, Steven Daar. Please read through to fully understand the “teacher expense deduction”, and what pre-kindergarten teachers can/cannot deduct. (And if you think it’s unfair, there’s a call to action at the bottom!) The Teacher Expense Deduction: This deduction is one I believe pre-kindergarten teachers get the short end
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Below is the first in a series of posts to provide tips on tax deductions for pre-kindergarten teachers from financial consultant, Steven Daar. The New Year brings about a lot of exciting & promising things. Taxes are not included in that group. But they are going to have to be paid one way or the other and if you want to keep a little more
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This month, we are sharing a new feature on our blog, especially for prekindergarten teachers. With income tax season coming up, we have a unique opportunity to share some expert advice on the subject – geared towards early childhood teachers. Sharing his expertise with us this month is Steven Daar from Teachers Retirement Help. Steven Daar is a graduate from the University of Illinois in
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Today our preschool classes made an “I have a dream” mural to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today. Before we made the mural, we read a story and had a discussion about who Dr. King was and why we celebrate his birthday. We started by reading The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Johnny Ray Moore, which tells of Dr. King’s life in an
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