Good Afternoon!

This morning the baby dolls were a very popular choice for our friends as they began their play.  They were dressing them, doctoring them and snuggling them to put them to sleep.

We then headed over to build with the Magna-Tiles.  Friends wanted to play peek-a-boo so they took the Little People and placed them inside of their building.  When they opened it up, they said, Peek-a-boo to the person they found inside.  Emily also made an ice cream cone with her Magna-Tiles and pretended to eat it.

We then headed into the kitchen to draw with markers in our journal binders with Miss Tina.

The friends asked Miss Bekah for the See The Bunnies Sleeping song.  We acted out the animals; bears, bunnies, frogs and flamingos while singing the song.  We then played Ring-around-the Rosie with a friend.

We then headed outside to enjoy the sunshine and cool, refreshing weather.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh pears, carrots/peas and whole grain wheat toast with butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus and Blue Corn chips.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Each kindergarten boy got to pick a book from the following choices: ‘Caps For Sale’, ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’, and ‘The Story of Ferdinand’. They worked with one specific book as well as three specific illustrations in that book. For each illustration, I gave them options of authors words that matched the illustration. They had to figure out if the authors words and illustrations matched!

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

For K/PREK1, we read ‘The Story of Ferdinand’. We filled in our chart after we were done reading it and talked about who did what job in the creation of this story.

Afterwards, we identified the shapes on the paper. Once children identified the shape, they told me how many sides the shape had as well as how many vertices. After the square, James raised his hand and shared, “The numbers are the same for each shape!”. I asked the group if they thought this trend would continue for the rest of the shapes and they all said yes! Sure enough, we found out that the number of sides and the number of vertices matched for each shape!

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

Our welcome activity was a fine motor activity in which children used metal tongs to place colorful puff balls onto a wooden rainbow. Some children placed the puff balls sporadically onto the rainbow while others sorted by color. Two three year old’s were doing this activity together and one chose to do each arch with a certain color. He shared how he did this with his peer who was eager to try out his way of doing it.

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/14

Good Afternoon!  Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios and fresh apples.

Lunch:  Refried beans and shredded cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh cucumbers and apples.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with cream cheese and fresh oranges.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Kindergarten sign in required children to count the number of sides of the shapes that were displayed on their sign in. Once they counted the number of sides, they wrote the number next to the shape. Our kindergarten sign in’s and one on one activity time allow for these to be geared toward each individual student. For example, there were a few numbers that children weren’t too sure on so I was able to dot the numbers for them so that they could practice the number formation.

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

We read, ‘Ruby Finds A Worry’ from our MACK collection for K/PREK1 group. Throughout the story, we learned about Ruby’s worry and how she dealt with it. We talked about the word ‘worry’ as well as the word ‘anxious’ which authentically allowed children to shared stories where they have been worried or anxious in the past or even present.

Afterwards, we started talking about the word ‘vertex’. We used the triangle on the chalkboard as a guide. Tomorrow, we’ll create a shape chart that focuses on number of sides as well as vertices.

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

Children sat down at the welcome activity which had two components: large wooden popsicle sticks and buttons. Without any directions, kids decided how to use these two materials on their own. Initially, children took the popsicle sticks and put them into a specific design or area on the tray and placed the buttons on top. A few older friends even incorporated patterns into their button arrangement.

“A child can teach you three things. To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, and to fight tirelessly for something.”

-Paulo Coelho

Breakfast– Kix and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/strawberries, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/13

Good Afternoon!

We began our morning playing with our baby dolls.  We were holding them, feeding them a bottle or giving them a check up.

We then headed into the kitchen to paint at the easel.  Even though, the season of Fall is a few weeks away, we used the Fall colors, green, orange, red and yellow to create our beautiful paintings.

Ben enjoyed working his fine motor skills to wiggle the animals circles on the Zany Zoo activity box, listened to Miss Tina read him a story and played with the animals and the fabric play food.

We then were able to get outside to play with trucks, make food in the play kitchen and pull ourselves up to stand at the shelf and look into the little house.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with butter and shredded cheese,  orange bell peppers and watermelon.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and raisins.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

This week is K/PREK1 group, one of our FAB’s focuses on identifying the role of authors and illustrators in writing stories. Throughout the week, we’ll add the story that we read for group to our chart and document the title, author, and illustrator of each story.

As children were rolling up their mats, I asked each child to share a shape that matched the criteria that I asked for. For example, I asked Daniel to share a shape that has four sides. He thought about it and shared, “Diamond!”

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and shredded pork, fresh watermelon, and fresh carrots/snap peas/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cucumber.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/12

Happy Friday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups, whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe/oranges, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

PM snack– Pretzels and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/9

Good Afternoon!  Enjoy the pictures from our day.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Ham lunchmeat and cream cheese roll-ups, whole grain wheat bread, fresh pineapple/cantaloupe and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and mild cheddar block cheese slices.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

This morning friends were engaged with the play food.  Miss Bekah introduced a new song to us titled, Fruit Salad by the Wiggles.  We listened to the song while playing with our fruits and vegetables.  Miss Bekah then made a fruit salad with 2 of the fruits from the song for us to enjoy with our lunch.

We then went into the kitchen to enjoy a sensory experience with playdough.  We used some playdough scissors and craft sticks to cut our playdough into small pieces, rolling pins to make it flat and cookie cutters to make it into shapes.  We were given a bowl so some of us could make our own fruit salad.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal Squares-Brown Sugar cereal and bananas.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, cucumbers and fresh fruit salad (apples, bananas and oranges).

Afternoon Snack:  Sunflower seeds and Wheat Thins.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Our three kindergarteners drew lines from shapes to the matching shape name. There were a few shapes that we needed to review such as hexagon and octagon but they had confidence when identifying most of the shapes on their sign in!

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

After reading, ‘The Color Monster’ during K/PREK1 group, I taped one shape onto the piece of paper at a time and children identified the shape. After I taped the circle onto the board and children identified it, I asked them to look around the classroom environment to see if they could find a circle. We did this with each shape and if we couldn’t find something in our view, we talked about things in our life. For example, a stop sign if the shape of an octagon. 

When we talked about hexagon and octagon, I shared that ‘hex’ means 6 and ‘oct’ means 8 which refers to the number of sides of the shape. I wrote the number underneath the shapes and a friend asked, “Can we do that for every shape?”

So, we went back through the shapes and wrote down how many sides each shape has!

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

Several children used the welcome activity in different ways. Rowan decided to take the gems and place them around the perimeter of each shape. Maggie put one gem at each vertex of the shapes that were in front of her. Adrian took the gems and filled in the area of each shape. Even though they were unaware, they were exploring various mathematical ideas such as vertices, area, and perimeter!

We spent a lot of time outside today since the weather was almost PERFECTION for the beginning of September.

Breakfast– Kix and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Pepitas with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot.

Have a great night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/8