Good Afternoon!

One of our families shared this wonderful opportunity and shared the address of the person who sets up walls or gratitude around area medical centers and hospitals. So, if you are looking for a way to have your kids express gratitude over break, you could have them make thank you notes/drawings for our local healthcare workers and send them to this address:

Beacon Health Foundation

Attn: Jessica

3245 Health Drive

Granger, IN 46530

____________________________________________________________________________________

For our kindergarten sign in, each friend picked two words from a pile of papers. They wrote each word on their sign in. Once the two words were written, they had to come up with two rhyming words for each word that they wrote.

Several children noticed the trend of letters and how the last few letters of each rhyming word were the same!

Yesterday afternoon, Miss Annastecia took several items from our environment and placed them in blue water and froze them! Today, we placed the blue ice into red bins. Friends were instructed to get instruments that would be able to break the ice apart! What a simply but extremely engaging activity!

Maggie and James headed to the art easel together where they used green, white, and red paint to cover their papers (and a few body parts!)—at this age, paint is really a sensory experience!

“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them.”

-Neil Gaiman

Breakfast- Oatmeal squares and fresh apples.

Lunch- Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh apples/oranges, cheddar cheese slices, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack- Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout- Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/15