Good Afternoon.

PLEASE NOTE: If you could please let Rebekah or I know if you plan on your child being out at any point next week prior to our annual two week Christmas break, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

“The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us a reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.” ~Maria Montessori 

Please enjoy the pictures form our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and banana.

Lunch: Whole grain tortilla with hummus, peas, grapes and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Have a nice night!

Marty

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Good Monday afternoon!

Enjoy some pictures from today!

Breakfast: Toast with butter and cinnamon & fresh apples

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with beans, carrots/tomatoes, & applesauce

PM Snack: Vanilla yogurt with Craisins

Wee Sprout: Fresh carrots

Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Ms. Kim

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Happy Monday! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

“To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.” ~Maria Montessori

Friends have used their creative abilities and their imaginations’ to utilize the gross motor big blocks in a little different way today! Evie placed blocks stacked two high in front of a shelf for her and friends to play with select activities. What another great way to have fun with the colorful big blocks!  

It is always fun to see our friends Mommies and Daddies come and go. When Rose was saying goodbye to her Mommy, other friends were just as excited to go up to the habi-trail windows and wave goodbye!

Breakfast: Whole grain English muffins with cream cheese, and grapes.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and black beans, broccoli, and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cheddar block cheese cubes.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a wonderful night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

**If you know that your child won’t be here for any number of days before Christmas break, please let a teacher know. We appreciate it! Thank you!

We want to wish Miss Kim a fantastic birthday that she’ll celebrate tomorrow! We hope you have a great day!

After reading, ‘Paper Bag Princess’ which is written by Robert Munsch, we looked at a map of the United States and identified Indiana. As I asked each individual child to roll up their map, each child had to name a state and try to find it. We were able to identify two states: Texas and Florida! We talked about how each state is mostly surrounded by water! As we talked about this, we brought California into the mix and pointed to it on the map.

Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.

PREK2 children had to identify the ‘reindeer and sleigh garage’ and once they did, they wrote their name by the garage. All week we’ve been studying maps and talking about the different things we can find on a map.

The light table was utilized this morning to decorate a tape tree with different manipulatives, mainly hexagon shapes. We filled in the tree shape and traced the outline too!

“Play is the highest expression of human development, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.”

-Friedrich Froebel

Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh banana/raspberries.

Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado sandwich on whole wheat bread, fresh banana/pears, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Goldfish and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a fantastic weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/7

Happy Friday! I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine.  

“Let us leave the life free to develop within the limits of the good, and let us observe this inner life developing.” ~Maria Montessori

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain English muffins with cream cheese and grapes.

Lunch: Whole wheat peanut butter sandwiches, corn, and grapes.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and cheddar block cheese/apples

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

In K/PREK1, we read a book titled, ‘In The City’ which is a Usborne book. Each page has items hiding so you need to put a flashlight behind the page to illuminate the items! There were different aspects of cities such as work buildings, parks, and several other areas that make up a city. We used a map as a guide to look at specific cities around us.

Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.

In PREK2, children looked at the map of the United States. They each pointed to a state which Miss Kim identified. Franklin pointed to Indiana and said, “Hey, that’s where I live!”. After each state was identified, they talked about the weather and climate and how they differed.

Here are a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn chex and fresh grapes.

Lunch– Brown rice and shredded chicken with cheese, fresh pears/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Peanuts with whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/6

Good Afternoon.

“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.” ~Maria Montessori

What a wonderful, and powerful message from one of the greatest educators of the Montessori theory! Wee Friends has always thrived on the belief of allowing children to learn through their play, and we love seeing our friends engaged in their day and activities all while learning. 

This morning as the beautiful white snow fell to the ground, we had a great time with a sensory activity. We decorated Santa hats to hang throughout our classroom. While we engage in many different types of sensory activities, this one in particular can get a little sticky! When we work with glue our friends can have different reactions to the way it feels on their fingers. Some don’t mind the feeling at all, while others don’t particularly care for it as much. We decorated our hats with gold garland, white cotton balls, all all kinds of pretty sequins. Our friends worked hard on making their hats look really nice and we had a lot of fun making them.

 

While decorating our hats we also watched the snow fall, listened to Jingle Bells and other Christmas songs, and sang along too. What a great morning!!!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and grapes.

Lunch: Whole grain rice with shredded chicken, peas, and grapes.

Snack: Pretzels and cheddar cheese.

Have a great evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

“Early childhood education is the key to a better society.” ~Maria Montessori

There is nothing better than finding that perfect teachable moment! While reading stories this morning, a friend chose the book Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton. While we were reading we learned that Daniel and Miss Rebekah both have on red shirts, Evie and Jack have on yellow shirts, and Miss Marty and another friend have on blue shirts. Some of our friends are working on learning their colors and this was a great way to help with that process.  We also learned that not all matching colors are exactly the same and that there are different shades to each color.

Later in the day, Jack went to the ball collection and told Miss Marty he wanted to get all the small balls out of the basket. He then placed all of his collected balls right at the end of the slide. Friends would randomly bring a larger ball to Jack and he would reply, “No, I only want little balls.” He definitely had a plan in his mind, even though none of us really knew just what he was wanting to do. But then, it all made sense as he walked around the habi-trail to get to the slide and slide down to make the balls move in all different kinds of directions.

Our friends all have wonderful imaginations that shine brightly in the classroom daily. Having an active imagination can lead to elaborate dreams, and a world of possibilities.

Breakfast: Whole Grain Chex cereal, and grapes.

Lunch: Scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat toast with butter, corn, and grapes.

Snack: Whole wheat rice cakes with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a night night! Stay Warm.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from today!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh banana.

Lunch– Scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat english muffins, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumbers.

PM snack-Blue corn chips with hummas

Wee Sprout– Fresh peppers/cucumber.

Have a fantastic night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/5

Good Afternoon!

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” ~Maria Montessori 

Daniel and Zoe were nicely engaged in the shape stacker activity today. This activity is a multiple learning activity that all of our friends love. We can utilize our hand-eye coordination skills, learn our colors, shapes, and how objects can be larger and or smaller than others.

Friends also enjoyed engaging with the waffle blocks. These blocks are also a multi-learning activity. Hand-eye coordination, fine motor, color recognition, and shape recognition are all ways we we can have our cognitive senses in full scale.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal, with grapes.

Lunch: Whole grain flatbread with shredded cheese and refried beans, carrots, and clementine’s.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cheddar cheese cubes.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty.

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