Prior to COVID, a lot of us were spinning our wheels constantly without even pretending to tap the brakes. 🏎 Work, cooking, cleaning, kids’ birthday parties 🎁, social gatherings, after school activities, drop off and pick up, traffic 😤, and finally sleep 🛏 (even though it felt like and often still feels like a nap)…only to wake up the the next day and do it all over again. 😴 Now, I’m not saying…
Every single parent tells you to enjoy sleep before you have kids. It’s not that I couldn’t imagine it, I just hadn’t experienced it…which made me realize that the infant stage of next level sleep deprivation is likely meant to prepare us (quickly) for what’s ahead. It gets better, not so much because it gets exponentially easier, but because we learn to adapt…and then…
So this week in our micro learning pod, we’re learning about clothes. Today specifically, we learned about pants. We compared different colors, textures, sizes and lengths, and noticed that some pants have buttons while Ms. Jessica’s never do (hahaha)! The paper cutouts of the pants👖 pictured were not used as intended in the Mother Goose Times curriculum we’re following, but when a few of your pod moms…
There will be times when your activity feels like a Pinterest fail. Your vision won’t match the reality for miles and while one child may be totally into it, another might be eating your props (yep, the latter was absolutely Bianca this morning). Guess what? That’s life. This happens in classrooms every year, all around the globe, and you have to learn to just try your best and…
As a little girl growing up, Toys R Us was a magical land that could do no wrong, but as an adult I started to question everything. Ever notice how Toys R Us had sections whose colors were geared to the gender they were trying to appeal to? The Barbie section was one giant wall of pink, and you likely couldn’t have found a pink Tonka truck in the…
Today was our very first day of school together. I haven’t been a classroom teacher for almost a decade, and never for my own child, although we learn from each other every day. Homeschooling or micro schooling is definitely different, but it’s also pretty great. More flexibility, less kids, and more socialization than had we kept her home by herself all year. Today wasn’t perfect, but it…