del Sol Preschool - Kindergarten: a Reggio-inspired Community

11/13/2025

06/03/2023

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child 🧡

Have a wonderful weekend all.

11/28/2022

Pure wisdom💝

10/05/2022

You all knew that authentic play-based early education programs impel meaningful goals, serious hard work, skills acquisition, perseverance, high achievement = high self esteem -- right?!

09/30/2022

Day 2 continuing with water track explorations with intense focus leading to new discoveries and satisfying new construction of learnings/knowledge. Do you see his thinking? It's still marvellous and wondrous to my 40 yrs of being an early childhood educator🤩

09/28/2022

Here comes another, or perhaps the same, hungry squirrel from my previous posting looking to dine on pine nuts this afternoon. He hung downward on the wide pine tree trunk with his hind feet while using his two front arms and hands fot turning the pinecone to find and eat left over pine nuts. So fun to watch!
Today we were also visited by baby lizards that made us squeal at their darting and giving us quite a chase to keep up with them. We found loads of wiggly worms in our flower bed just underneath our del Sol wood-carved sign, too. And we have our almost constant monarhs, caterpillars, and milkweed plants in various stages, including two having gone to seed. They are so fascinating to the children. I love our nature-rich Outdoor Classroom just as much as the children🎶

09/20/2022

Part 2: marble track to water track--hypothesis at work💥

09/20/2022

Higher level thinking skills IN ACTION👌💯 🎶

09/17/2022

del Sol Parent Education topic #1;

Because I follow the brilliant Janet Lansbury on Facebook, I have come across several interesting posts about praise recently. In one of those, Lisa Sunbury of Regarding Baby shared her thoughts in Praise Not , a read I would recommend. All this reading got me thinking about praise.

09/15/2022

LIVE! Our Nature-laden Outdoor Classroom has a resident squirrel who is treating herself to a freshly fallen green pinecone. She is amazingly confident around us. A few hours earlier, she hopped up on our picnic table and carried away my partially eaten apple. After she finished devouring the pine cone, she carried the rest of the apple up one of our pine trees!