Let's Explore!

I am a very proud mom of four amazing little girls ages 12, 9, 9 and 5 years. I worked full time as an Assistant Principal at an elementary school in CO before and after my first child was born until my family relocated to HI. Before embarking on my Administrative career, I spent well over a decade teaching grades k-5, with the longest time period spent teaching full day kindergarten. I LOVED kindergarten as I felt as though I had a large hand in creating the love of learning in each child while also introducing them to the classroom behavior and high learning expectations for their remaining years in school.  I took pride in watching my students who started the year unfamiliar with holding a pencil or uncertain of their letter recognition, “graduate” from my class reading, writing and independently confident in their abilities. So many amazing things happen in kindergarten, and now I have the opportunity to prepare our children for the start of kindergarten. My goal is for our children to enter kindergarten with that same confidence, knowing that they are prepared to start their educational journey.

Arctic Explorers Preschool (Formerly known as Mommy’s Time Out) came to be once my twins turned one. It was then that I realized how much I missed teaching and being in a school setting, however, Ijust wasn’t ready to leave my own little ones quite yet, so I created Mommy’s Time Out. It started outas a means for Parents to get some time away while their children were offered educational and fun hands on learning opportunities. Slowly, as the first year progressed, Mommy’s Time Out grew into a preschool.