Good Afternoon and Happy November.

WEE FRIENDS WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25TH AND 26TH FOR THE THANKGIVING HOLIDAY.

Today we enjoyed talking to one another about the fun we had Trick or Treating and all the candy we received.  

We had fun engaging in a sensory activity at the table today. Playdoh is always a fun activity that we enjoy. Pipe cleaners were added into our play to make the experience more exciting. We bent them to make a rainbow and we also stuck them in the doh utilizing our fine motor skills.

 

Our littlest friends got out the colorful rings.  Emma love to place them around her neck and play with them. She will go throughout the classroom with them on and have a blast!   

 

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon and pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara and shredded cheese, broccoli florets with banana and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Welcome to November!

The kindergarteners sign-in focused on singular and plural nouns. I read a sentence aloud, giving them two options to choose from (singular and plural noun) and they circled which word completed the sentence.

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g., dog/dogs, cat/cats).

We switched up our housekeeping theme today: enter…the pirates! Tools were put into housekeeping as well as new dress up clothes.

James and Millie searched through the reading area to see if we had any books about pirates and sure enough we did! They were able to find a book that had a big picture of a pirate ship for Miss Annastecia to draw.

After the pirate ship was done, children worked together to color the ship before it was put into the housekeeping area.

We bundled up and headed outside. The fresh, crisp air felt nice!

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

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and red/black beans, fresh apples, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/1

Happy Friday!

A few housekeeping announcements:

**We need updated shot records for your child by Monday, January 3.

**Holiday vacations coming up:

Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26

Monday, December 20 through Friday, December 31

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We had a day full of baking, pajama cuddles, outside play, and Friday fun—we hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Ham on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/watermelon, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Homemade tortilla chips with peanut butter/yogurt dip.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/carrots.

Have a lovely weekend! See you in November!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/29

Happy Friday! I hope you all have  had a great week.  

Today we were all excited see one another in our jammies. Some of us wore Halloween jammies and others of us wore other styles. We all looked great! What a comfy cozy day!

One of our older friends asked if we could turn over our soft star climber and play with it that way. This way of utilizing the climber is a great way to enhance our balancing skills as well as working on being brave and trying new ways of playing.

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

Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with Turkey lunchmeat, broccoli florets and banana.

Snack: Pretzels and mild cheddar cheese slices.

Wee Sprouts: red pepper.

Have a fantastic Halloween weekend and have fun Trick or Treating.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

**Reminder: tomorrow is PAJAMA DAY!

Enjoy the pictures from today!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh oranges.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken and butter, fresh strawberries/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

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Good Afternoon.

REMINDER: TOMORROW IS A PAJAMA DAY! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BRING YOUR CHILD IN PJ’S, WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM IN THEIR JAMMIE ATTIRE 

Today we engaged in a gluing activity. We put glue on an orange piece of construction paper and then placed foam letters on top of the glue. Some of us enjoyed placing the letters on top of our glue while others simply enjoyed feeling the sticky texture of glue in their hands.

Two of our older friends enjoyed taking our small stools and placing them upside down. They thought it would be a great idea to place their babies and other items from the dramatic play center in the core of the stool. What great imaginations.  

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and black beans, corn and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat what tin crackers and Sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

**We will have a pajama day on Friday!**

For kindergarten sign in, Mack and Evie circled the uppercase letters that they saw. They ended up circling the five capital letters that started each sentence.

In K/PREK1 group, we read two Frog and Toad stories. We LOVE Toad’s dry humor!

We gathered in a circle and looked at the story that we read. We identified uppercase letters that we saw that began each sentence. Daniel, Mack, and Evie each were asked to identify a period, exclamation point, and questions mark that they saw. After they identified the punctuation mark, I read the sentence aloud.

K.W.6.2a: Capitalization– Capitalizing the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.

K.W.6.2b: Punctuation– Recognizing and naming end punctuation.

In PREK2, children worked together to identify the uppercase and lowercase letter match.

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

Maya Angelou

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon, and fresh snap peas/pepper.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with melted butter and applesauce.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/27

Happy Wednesday! What a beautiful sunny day.

Today we were excited about apple painting. An apple was cut in half and friends could see the very cool star shape that was in the center of the apple. Red and green paint was the color choice for today’s masterpieces.

Even though our temperatures are a little chilly we are still enjoying getting some fresh air, gross motor movement and being able to see our Preschool classroom friends.  

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and oranges.

\Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat toast with peanut butter, California blend veggies and watermelon.

Snack: Whole wheat flatbread with hummus.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Evie and Mack worked with punctuations marks this morning for their kindergarten sign in. Yesterday, we started identifying the three common ending punctuation marks so today, they took three different marker colors to circle the periods, question marks, and exclamation points specifically.

They even went a step further and started identifying the punctuation marks in the description before the activity began!

K.W.6.2b: Punctuation– Recognizing and naming end punctuation.

Beautiful jewelry and gems were put out at the art table for children to explore. They talked about the size of the items as well as how each item made them feel.

It was quite the chilly morning but thankfully a large group of friends played Simon Says to keep themselves warm!

Breakfast– Kix and fresh apples.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh apples, and fresh cucumber/carrot.

PM snack– Homemade muffins, fresh orange slices, and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/26:

Good Afternoon.

Wow!! What a busy day the Wee Wee.’s had today.  

A friend asked for Miss Bekah to ready teacher stories… a continuance from Miss Marty reading them yesterday afternoon.We unfortunately ran out of time for everyone that was interested to finish listening.

We enjoyed them very much and found a book that lead us into singing and acting out the song, Where is Thumbkin. Our two year old’s were very curios and interested in what each of our fingers were called. Meanwhile the toddlers would attempt to use their fingers but really got into swaying their bodies back and forth to the tune that was being sung.

We then got engaged in a favorite song that we can also act out with our full body. See the bunnies sleeping is a classroom favorite. We sing softly while our little bunnies are sleeping, then we wake them with a merry tune and they wake up and jump all around. We then think of other animals we can be and imitate their sounds as we jump.

Last week we colored all over our classroom pumpkin with markers and this week we sang, Ring Around the Pumpkin and acted out those motions of falling down.

We then placed the pumpkin in the middle of us as we sat in a circle and rolled it to a specific friend while singing with a made up tune to make this activity more interesting and fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and Apples.

Lunch: Whole whet tortilla with refried beans and shredded Colby Jack shredded cheese, corn and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Corn

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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