Good Afternoon!

**Group A will go to the farm (weather permitting) tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. We will leave around 9:50 am. Please make sure children are appropriately dressed for the weather!

Spring 2019 Farm Groups

We LOVE having a multiage preschool/K classroom! However, this means our mix of children is always changing and this makes us continually reevaluate the way we plan daily and extracurricular activities.

As we look to our spring farm trips, most of our crew is already 4 or 5 years old. This is great! But, it also means that we will need to adjust our farm groups to fit the children we have right now.

Therefore, this spring there will be 2 groups that will rotate every other week, with our kindergarten children attending every week.

*WE ONLY TAKE FULLY POTTY TRAINED CHILDREN. CHILDREN NOT YET POTTY TRAINED WILL NEED TO TRANSPORTED AND CHAPERONED BY A PARENT/GRANDPARENT/ETC.

Group A: Nina, Anna, Grady, David, Penny, Chloe, Franklin, Maxwell, Lucy

Group B: Emma, Sophia, Forrest, Ruby, Zoey, Brycen, Mack, Maxwell, Lucy

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The weather affects what we do, what we wear, and the outdoor environment. We created four weather webs after reading a book titled, ‘Snow’. I asked children to tell me what they thought of when hearing the following words: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Friends came up with activities and clothing that were specific to each season.

Science: K.3.5 Describe and give examples of weather changes and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.

I read this ‘Teacher Tom’ blog post this morning and it rang true to what we deal with when we get a ‘new’ toy out. Even if it’s a toy we’ve played with before, when it makes it’s reappearance, everyone wants to play with it.

Max requested the ‘big yellow tracks’ yesterday afternoon so we brought them up from the basement. Max and Lucy helped me clean them so that they were ready to go this morning. We can’t deny that children have strong emotions from time to time. It’s how we deal with these emotions that will get them to the other side.

“We were playing with our very cool, new-to-us, train table. There was a crush of kids vying for space and vehicles. One boy was particularly excited, so much so that his emotions were right on the surface and it was almost too much to bear when he couldn’t get his hands on a specific pair of train cars. He did not want “regular cars.” He did not want the other colors. He wanted the cars that were in the hands of his friend who was not about to give them up.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/that-was-kind-thing-to-do.html

Breakfast– Kix and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, fresh apples/pears, and fresh carrots/peppers.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/peppers.

Have a fantastic evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 4/23

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