Our friends painted colorful artwork for us to admire and to brighten up this rainy day. They used their hands and brushes to spread the paint over the whole paper and made many beautiful paintings!

This afternoon a few of our friends played with the Montessori object permanence boxes together. While playing with these, they are developing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and are practicing precise hand movements.

Breakfast was Chex and bananas. Lunch consisted of English muffins with marinara sauce and cheese, strawberries, and carrots. Afternoon snack was crackers with hummus.

Have a great night!

Amanda

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Good Afternoon!

Here are a few pictures from today!

For breakfast, children had kix and apples. Lunch consisted of sunflower seed butter on whole wheat bread, banana, and green beans. PM snack was cottage cheese and oranges. Wee sprouts were carrots.

Have a great night!

Link to pictures: WF 5/3

Enjoy the photos!

Breakfast was Kix with apples. Wee sprouts was carrots. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with black beans, oranges, and carrots. Afternoon snack was toasted whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Have a great night!

Amanda

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Maggie, Ruby, and Franklin spent some time at the kitchen table doing activities together this afternoon. They started with animal puzzles and then moved on to puff balls. Franklin was very generous and handed puff balls from his own basket to Ruby. Ruby would then throw the balls or place them in her own basket. And then they would dump the baskets on their heads!

After snack we had music time! Our friends used the classroom instruments and played some lively tunes. Music inspires movement and a few of our friends showed off their dance moves!

Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon and apples. Wee sprouts was peas. Lunch consisted of tortilla with refried beans and cheese, apples, and peas. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and crackers. PM Wee sprouts was peas.

Enjoy the rest of the photos!

Amanda

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Happy Monday!

Our Kindergarten FAB for the week is: K.4.2 Identify and describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools they use.

We started to ‘brainstorm’ (a word we’ve been discussing lately in large group) a list of different occupations that help out our community. Emerson suggested ‘soup kitchen’ which brought a few blank stares to our faces. Emerson let us know what a soup kitchen was and how it helps out the community.

We plan on discussing various aspects of our community and how different people contribute through their jobs.

Miss Melinda started a planting project this morning. She explained what ‘Peat Pellets’ are and how we use them. Every child at the table was given the opportunity to become involved. Each child took four pellets out of the box and placed them on the tray.

After we had all of the pellets out, we wet them and throughout the day, watched them expand! They should be ready for the next step hopefully by tomorrow!

Many friends requested puzzles this morning. Most children have their favorite, go-to puzzle that they do first!

Our outside time this morning centered around ‘loose parts’. Loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways. The outside environment allows friends to use loose parts in their play. For example, balls, wood, twigs, stones, logs, and stones.

We had two specific examples of how loose parts played a role in our morning. A group of peers gathered our logs and created a fire pit. They conversed with one another about how best to create the image they had in their mind. Later in the afternoon, they created a log house out of the logs.

Emerson and Addi used various items in the backyard including a twig, grass, and a few rocks to create a bug habitat for a rollie pollie that they found. They searched the backyard trying to find different items to “make the bug happy” as one friend put it!

We have numerous ‘open-ended’ materials in our environment that let children take their play in any direction that they wish!

For breakfast, children had whole wheat toast with hummus and apples. Lunch consisted of whole grain noodles with black beans, oranges, and cauliflower. PM snack was whole milk yogurt with apples. Wee sprouts for the day were carrots.

Hope everyone has a terrific evening!

Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/2

Happy Friday!

We spent a lot of our time today in the gross motor area of the classroom. We started the morning by getting out the ball baskets and throwing all the balls around! Franklin did an awesome job tossing them back into the baskets.

There were friendly chases through the habitrail and down the slide. They love to giggle at each other through the bars!

Sophia impressed us all with her climbing skills. She practiced hard and her persistence paid off when she made it up to the third rung of the ladder! She was one proud little girl!

Breakfast was oatmeal pancakes and pear. Wee sprouts was peas. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, peas, and clementine’s. Afternoon snack was string cheese and graham crackers.

Have a great night!

Amanda

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Happy Friday!

Our day was full of:

Cartwheels.

Sequins.

Piano.

Bug catching.

Ice cream shop (production line and all).

Dinosaurs.

Breakfast- Oatmeal pancakes (YUM!) and banana.

Lunch- Hummus on tortillas, apples/pears, and carrots/green beans.

PM Snack- Cheddar block cheese with pretzel crisps.

Wee Sprout- Carrots, green beans.

Have a terrific weekend!

Link to pictures: WF 4/29

It was a great day spent with friends!

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and bananas. Lunch consisted of hummus sandwiches with cantaloupe and carrots. Afternoon snack was quinoa cakes with cream cheese. Wee sprouts was peas. 

Have a good night!

Amanda

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Good Afternoon!

Clipboards served many purposes today: such as holding pipe cleaners stable so that they could be twisted or “braided” as Clara called it AND making a chart that shows how many puzzles we have. Jackson commented, “I want to see how many puzzles we have here!” So grabbing a clipboard and making a chart seemed like the next step.

In keeping with our motion and fast/slow theme for the week, friends went to the habitrail to construct different ramps for their cars. We put a car at the top of each ramp to see which car traveled faster! A child was heard saying, “I want my car to go faster! I need to fix my ramp.” Children got together and worked it out. Our conversation skills AND trial and error skills were definitely put to the test!

We enjoyed stories in various settings today.

Elliott used the wooden blocks to construct a boat before a few friends came over to add to the creation! It grew in size and before we went outside, Elizabeth said, “Can we get a picture taken of this?!”

An ice cream shop was created outside where flavors such as chocolate, strawberry, and blue moon were made! The crew were on a time crunch as the bell was about to ring so they finally said, “Okay! We’re ready. Come get your ice cream!”

With it being poetry day, we read a few of our favorite poems in ‘A Light In The Attic’. As a group, we created our own poem with everyone contributing different ideas.

Some children took the poetry theme and used it in their journals while some of their peers had a different direction that they took their journals. Our journal time was full of kid spelling, where friends tried to sound out as many consonants and vowels as they could.

For breakfast, we had Corn Squares and grapes. Lunch was brown rice with shredded cheese and turkey, oranges/cantaloupe, and green beans. PM snack was pumpkin seeds and whole wheat thins. Our wee sprout for the day was carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 4/28

Today’s sensory activity was uncooked black bean pasta. David and Ruby grabbed big handfuls and seemed to enjoy feeling the thin pasta sticks break. Ruby and Sophia liked sticking their hands in the tub and swishing all the pasta around. David would grab some in his fist, stand up, and watch the pasta sprinkle back into the container.

Enjoy the rest of the pictures!

Breakfast was whole grain oatmeal and bananas. Lunch consisted of farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat bread, pears, and broccoli. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with hummus.

Have a great night!

Amanda

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