watch wonder bloom

I normally start posts on here and social media with how excited I am to share something. I'm not excited about this post, yet I am...

Knife skills with toddlers? Fractions with dough? Rice all over the kitchen? Dinner cooked by kiddos? A homemade mini-zoo? Hunting for...

One of the approximately million things I love about my work as a Tinkergarten Leader is that I am constantly learning. As a high school...

Sarah Sheffield, PhD, and I went to UNC-Chapel Hill at the same time. As we both pursued degrees in earth science fields, we took quite a...

Whewwww April flew by! I am VERY excited to jump into a our May Month in Moments themes. We'll focus on gardens, awesome animals, and...

Oh...screen time... This is one of those topics that makes my head ache if I think too hard. I was not remotely as tech-savvy as my peers...

I met Brittni in my third year at the school where I taught Earth and Environmental Science. At the time, I was our AVID (college/career...

It's National Library Week and Poetry Month! I used to LOVE trips to the library - for story times, summer reading programs, finding...

Patricia Coldren was one of my first mentors as a teacher, and quickly became a role model for me as an educator and young adult....

Y'all!!!! So I definitely skipped quite a few months, but it's been a year since my first Month in Moments calendar!!! SO MUCH has...

This topic is on my mind today because I sold at my first handmade market last week! The amazing Guncotton Coffee and Gallery hosted...

Yesterday, I wrapped up my second ever Tinkergarten class! We had an amazing season of playful learning! We jumped like squirrels,...

Everyone needs a Theresa in their life, and I'll get to why in just a second, but before that, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Theresa's whole...

We REALLY enjoyed the shortened activities in February's Month in Moments calendar, we had time to easily fit these in for the whole...

Teaching, helping other teachers fine-tune their teaching, leading Tinkergarten, and teaching yoga, mixed in with raising a little one of...

I met Future Sailor Ali Williams in my first year teaching in a small early college. Ali was in a geology class that the students took...

I'm going to be starting a short series of interviews with some awesome learners, teachers, leaders, and family members in my life and,...

January has been a whirlwind, and with it have come some helpful reminders. The Tinkergarten Winter Season started (WAAAAWHOOOO!), and I...

Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, which our nation will recognize on Monday (and some states will, frustratingly, recognize...

I post a lot about emergent literacy - HG's due date was smack in the middle of my AMAZING emergent literacy class at UNCG and this class...