Good Afternoon and Happy Friday!

We were all very excited to see the leaf truck come our way this morning. We didn’t have any homes that needed their leaves picked up, unfortunately but we were still very excited to see the large truck drive by! 

Nesta and Adrian then enjoyed some time on the swing! All friends are doing very well with sitting or laying nicely and holding on to the ropes.

Breakfast: Whole wheat peanut butter toast and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat grilled cheese sandwiches, tomatoes and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and mozzarella cheese sticks.

Have a lovely weekend.

Marty

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Hello!

Our kindergarteners sign in and K group exercise matched up as we dove into verbs, specifically action verbs!

During their sign in experience, they had a word bank of four action verbs that they had to plug into a sentence that made the most sense. They used the context clues throughout the sentence as they chose what action verb to insert into the sentence.

We took it one step further in K group as we read five sentences and worked together to identify the action verb in each sentence. Every group member was able to identify the action verb after I read the sentence!

K.W.6.1b: Verbs– Writing sentences that include verbs.

In PREK2, Miss Kim read the story titled, ‘Thankful’ which lead into their message board. Children answered the question “What or who are you thankful for?”

“It’s the sort of thing caring adults too often do: the kids were working together to solve a kind of puzzle, but they were robbed of an opportunity for independence, collaboration, and perhaps even epiphany by a well-intended adult.”

I found this short Teacher Tom blog post today that focuses on giving children the opportunity to explore new things and situations, instead of giving them the answers or ‘bursting their bubble’.

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/whats-inside.html

Breakfast– Oatmeal squares and fresh pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh oranges/apples, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with cottage cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.

Have a fantastic evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/12

Good Afternoon.

This morning we read,  The Belly Button Book by Sandra Boynton. We absolutely LOVE this story and we LOVE to find our belly buttons aka… BEE-BO!!  

Friends enjoyed the wall abacus and all of its exciting swirls and zig-zag patterns.

This helps strengthen our fine motor, cognitive, and hand-eye coordination skills. Along with our color and shape recognition.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, tomatoes and apples.

Snack: Wheat thins and pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Orange peppers.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon and Happy Veteran’s Day!

This morning Nesta and I were playing with the pegs and their boards that have specific shapes to them. We were working on the heart shaped board and Nesta kept calling it a star. That led she and I into a more detailed conversation about shapes.

I drew various shapes on a piece of paper and we worked on telling the difference of what those shapes actually were. I was very happy and surprised Nesta was so interested.  

While Miss Rebekah was reading stories to our friends, the song/story, there were ten in the bed… came into conversation.

Miss Bekah got out our fun big comfy pillow so that we could all act out the song by rolling off of the pillow.  We had a GREAT time.  (There were ten in the bed and the little one said, roll over… roll over!)

Breakfast: Whole grain rice Chex cereal and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, carrots and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cream cheese.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

First and foremost, we want to send out a big happy 4th birthday to Daniel! We are so glad we got to spend your 4th birthday with you!

The kindergarteners had to write the number that came before and after a specific number this morning for their sign in . For example, they wrote the numbers 12 and 14 as they came before and after the number 13 that was the focus. This theme rolled over into our K group time where children got the opportunity to write a number that was missing in a number line from 0 to 20.

K.NS.3: Find the number that is one more than or one less than any whole number up to 20.

In PREK2, children worked with addition problems, specifically when adding 1 to a number.

Check out the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh apples.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/oranges, and fresh broccoli/snap peas.

PM snack– Daniel’s birthday treat: pretzels and popcorn.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/11

Good Afternoon!

We read, ‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!’ in K group. During kindergarten sign in, we focused on creating word families so that lead our group chat today. After we finished up the story, we created three different word families that focused on the words wit, candy, and pin. We identified the similarities in each word family such as ‘in’ in the pin word family.

K.RF.3.5: Add, delete, or substitute sounds to change words.

In PREK2, children created a rhyming word with their name! They talked about rhyming words and how you can create a rhyming word by removing the first letter of the word and replacing it with another letter.

The rest of our morning revolved around activities such as magnatiles, art easel, art table, and puzzles. And yes, we did get out some holiday toys for the housekeeping area!

We tried to spend as much time as possible outside today! We’ve been LOVING this weather so far this week and aren’t that excited to see colder temps come in the days ahead.

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh apples.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh broccoli/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/broccoli.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/10

Good Afternoon.

This morning we welcomed Miss Bekah back from her day off yesterday with, “Bekahhhh” and big smiles  

Friends engaged in a fun art activity today! Dot painting is always a fun activity for us to outside of our regular painting and or coloring. We can learn our colors and how to softly stamp our papers with these special style markers.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain tortilla with shredded cheese, carrots and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with butter.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our Monday!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, banana, and fresh peppers/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/9

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain English muffins with butter and cinnamon and pears.

Lunch:Whole wheat pasta with marinara and shredded cheese, snap peas and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt and granola.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a nice night!

Marty

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Happy Friday!

In K group, we read, ‘What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs?’ which is a fiction story about a brothers theory of what really happened to the dinosaurs. We thought their theories were very funny! (think spaceships!)

Afterwards, each friend had to the opportunity to add a singular or plural noun to the missing space in a sentence. For example, Z had to fill in the sentence, ‘I have one ________ at my house.’ She filled it in with baby sister creating the sentence, ‘I have one baby sister at my house.’

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

In PREK2, children worked with laminated pumpkins with various numbers of each pumpkin. They had to match the number to the correct number of orange gems!

Friends took turns this morning exploring the light table and various manipulatives. Mostly, friends took the toys and sorted them by color into groups around the light table.

The sensory table was made available as friends moved colored rice around the bin. Children used scoopers and different utensils to fill and dump the rice.

“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them”

-Dr. Maria Montessori

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham and cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears/oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Pretzels and cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/6