Woodpecker outside my classroom - banging his head I had two weeks for Spring Break. And I had big plans. I was going to read those book...

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important."   ~ Mary Kay Ash All children in our cla...

A few days ago I posted some of my favorite tech tools. The Internet is a great place to learn and expand your thinking. Blogs are great fo...

Today I read Teacher Tom 's archived post I'm an Idiot . As always, it triggered my thinking. I thought about all the times I did ...

A recent conversation brought back memories of my days as a director of a church weekday program. One day, the 3-year-old class teachers sto...

This week I was reminded of two important truths. First, a story. We were cleaning up and preparing to assemble for a group learning time....

I put out some airplanes with the wooden blocks. "I" and "J2" were ready to jump into this activity. They immediately bu...

I read something the other day that I've been thinking about since. On Kids Ministry 101 , Bill wrote: "Every big thing starts as a...

My wife helps lead a preschool choir at our church. Recently she took several recycle/repurpose items to create some "environmental ins...

Each week I volunteer for an hour or so at a local elementary school. I play games with kindergartners to help them work on skills that nee...

In thinking about the new year, here are some teaching/teacher goals for the new year. 1. I want to discover more ways to use technology ...

This past year in my kindergarten class, I took lots of pictures. (The peril of the digital camera!) As a result, we gave each set of parent...

Simon Peter, Thomas (called "Twin"), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee's sons, and two others of His disciples were ...

I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing. (2 Samuel 24:24) This verse was our focus in adult choir pract...

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be cur...