This morning we were engaged in the housekeeping area…

sitting in a chair to play or rock…

adding a dress up tie to our outfit or looking at our reflection in the mirror.

We then headed into the kitchen for a sensory experience with shaving cream.  We let Miss Bekah know the color of our choice to add; blue, red or yellow food coloring to change it.  We then added another color to mix together to make a new color.  Friends were shouting, “it’s purple, it’s gray” as they saw it change.

We then went outside and sat on the benches to enjoy our Wee Sprout before engaging in our activities.  We rode on the teeter totters with a friend, engaged in a water activity with plastic boats that the pre-school class set up for us to enjoy with them, and walked around with the baby dolls with my sister.  Even Eleanor was out with us this morning sitting on the blanket engaged with her basket of toys.

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

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, fresh pineapple slices, carrots and toasted whole grain wheat English Muffins with butter.

Afternoon Snack: Refried beans and white corn chips.

Wee Sprout: Yellow bell pepper.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 203-04-12

Welcome to another beautiful day!

Today we created water bead marble runs!  In a bin filled with water and water beads, we worked independently, or with our teacher to make marble runs.  We used turkey basters to suck up the water beads and squirt them down the marble runs.  We also used scoops and bottles to fill with the beads and poured them down the runs, watching the cause and effect of what we made.

Since the water beads were so popular, we set up a couple of personal water bead activity trays for further exploration.  There were a variety of trays, scoops, jars and spoons to use for any  imaginative ideas we had for the beads. 

We had a blast outside in this lovely spring day. Some of our older friends went on a short walk (see blog link) around the neighborhood. Then we added some water in our kitchen area. A friend set up a restaurant that served milkshakes and coffee. He gave Ms. Kim three cups of coffee. Apparently she must have looked very tired, so he thought she needed that many. Haha!

Ms. Linsey brought in large toy dinosaurs for the sandbox. They took chunks of sand and stuffed the dinosaurs mouth with their “food.” Others created a made up scenario in which the bad dinosaurs (carnivores) attacked and ate the nice dinosaurs (herbivores).

Breakfast: Oatmeal & apples

Lunch: Farm fresh eggs, pita bread, carrots/snap peas, & cantaloupe/pineapple

PM Snack: Popcorn & raisins

Wee Sprouts: Carrot chips & sugar snap peas

Link to pictures:  2023-04-12

Enjoy your Wednesday!

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Happy Sunny Tuesday!

We began our morning moving through different areas of the classroom.  Arthur built a tower with Duplos, Emily was a doctor and gave her brother Ben a check-up, Eleanor was chewing on her finger while smiling on her playmat, Dax and Eliza were wearing headbands and walking around to show their friends and Paige was engaged with the airplane and colored rings.

 

We then engaged in the bird seed/rice sensory table.  We were busy filling our hands and scoops full of the mixture and pouring them into the different size containers.

We had so many different activities to choose from outside. Arthur and Ben chose the sandbox and used different tools to scoop sand. Hannah chose a baby doll to play with. Both Emily and Eliza enjoyed playing with their older siblings. Dax used a piece of chalk to draw big continuous circles on the chalkboard. Paige took a turn at painting with watercolors at the easel outside.

Eleanor has shown interest in sitting up, so she tried out our blue chair today and she loved being able to look around the classroom effortlessly.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and fresh oranges.

Lunch: Peanut Butter on whole grain wheat tortillas, 1/2 mozzarella cheese stick, pear slices, and cucumber.

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

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-04-11

Hello Beautiful Day!

Our friends enjoyed painting the branches yesterday and wanted to paint more, so we turned it into a project.  We painted a larger branch today so we can make a wind chime, or hanging artwork. This will depend on our preference. We then can attach our smaller sticks to it. We will also string some beads to add to the hanging art.

We took our artwork outside making a large group water color painting.  We intermingled our artistic ideas creating a very interesting piece! 

Friends enjoyed a loose parts welcome activity creating marble runs and mazes using wood pieces of all shapes and sizes.

Breakfast: Kix Cereal & oranges

Lunch: PB on whole wheat bread,  cheese slice, watermelon/pears, & carrots/peppers/cucumbers

PM Snack: Whole wheat English Muffins & cheese cube

Wee Sprouts: Fresh rainbow peppers, carrot chips, fresh cucumber slices

Link to pictures: 2023-04-11

Warmest greetings to all,

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and gorgeous weather.

This morning we were so happy to see our friends and play with them.  Paige worked at putting an outfit on her baby doll while Dax, Eliza and Hannah engaged in their own books. Ben and Emily rocked together in the rocking chair and then Ben blew the teacher with the camera a kiss. Arthur was busy cooking in the housekeeping kitchen.

We then headed into the kitchen to use dot markers on coffee filters.  We created a lot of dots to fill up our filters with a rainbow of colors.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful warm weather.  It wasn’t long before we took off our jackets because it was so warm.  We loved engaging in the sandbox, sitting in the shade on the bench to get out of the sun for a bit or drawing pictures on the sidewalk with chalk.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded turkey, fresh oranges and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and watermelon.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a marvelous evening!

Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-04-10

Greetings!

Today, we started turning the soil in the garden.  We used garden tools like rakes, hoes and shovels to help.  We learned what each tool is best at, and tried different tasks.  Some of us aerated the soil and loosened it with the rake.  Some of us used the hoe to pull up weeds, and some used shovels to dig up weeds with deep roots.  We also removed extra leaves and sticks that had filled our garden boxes over the winter.  We found some earth worms while we worked.  This gave us a chance to talk about an earth worms job in a garden.  We learned that earth worms are decomposers who help turn dead plants back into soil as they process the leaves in their digestive tracts.  This puts nutrients trapped in the dead plants back into the soil for new plants.  We also learned that earth worm tunnels aerate the soil keeping plant roots healthy.  At small group today we read the book “An Earth Worm’s Life” and learned about how earthworms live. 

Several of us painted branches in the art center.  We picked out our colors and tried to create rings or dots in patterns around the branch using our brushes.

Breakfast: Whole wheat English Muffin w/ PB & banana

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta w/ tomato sauce & shredded cheese, carrots & green beans, & watermelon

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt & granola

Wee Sprouts: Carrot chips & green beans

Link to photos: 

2023-04-10

Enjoy this lovely weather,

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

We celebrated our last day of the week with pajamas and fruit pizzas. Ms. Kim brought in blueberries, strawberries, nectarine, and shredded coconut. We spread on a layer of peanut butter, and our friends chose what they wanted on their pizzas. They turned out to be some colorful creations! They exclaimed at how yummy it was.

Today, we started our first indoor plantings for the garden.  It was time to plant tomato seeds and we each got to choose an heirloom variety to plant.  We had many colors, sizes, and shapes to pick from.  We could pick large, medium, small or pear shaped.  We also could pick purple, pink, orange yellow, red,  bi-colored and even striped.  After we picked what kind we wanted to plant we used our finger to poke holes in the soil that filled our planting tray.  We carefully placed a seed in each hole and then covered them all with soil.  We will watch our plants grow in the science center before transferring them outside into the green house.  Please bring clean half gallon milk paper cartons for transplanting the tomato plants.

Gardening tip for planting tomatoes from seed: Give your plants a boost by transplanting them after they get their first true leaves.  Plant them deep in their new container of soil covering the plant all the way up to the leaves so that the stem in buried.  Tomato plants can grow roots from their stems, so this method will  improve their root system very quickly, and you will see a massive growth spirt in your plant.

Egg Art!

Breakfast: Oatmeal Square Cereal & bananas

Lunch: Brown rice w/ chicken, carrots, & fruit salad

PM Snack: Fruit pizzas on Naan & cheese

Wee Sprouts: Baby carrots & carrot chips

Link to photos:  2023-04-06

Have a fantastic Easter Weekend!

Ms. Kim & Ms. Linsey

Happy Thursday and Pajama Day!

Today we…

painted with half of a plastic egg to make circle prints to create our masterpieces…

engaged with the ball or coin object permanence boxes…

bundled up to go outside to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and engage in our favorite activities or walk around with my brother…

and since it was Pajama Day, we read Pajama Time by Sandra Boynton before naptime.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios and bananas.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh apples and green bell pepper slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Fresh pears and Cheddar block cheese slices.

Have a great 3 day weekend! See you Monday!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIullsBnlYFMwRMiCDyWag

Even though it was a stormy Wednesday, it didn’t dampen the happy spirit in our classroom.  Enjoy the pictures!

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh pear slices, peas and toasted whole grain wheat English Muffins with butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat tortillas and peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIullr9k7vQ3Y-rtplk49g

It’s Wacky Weather Wednesday!

On this stormy rainy day, we created an indoor rain storm experiment in a jar.  We used a jar full of water to simulate the atmosphere and shaving cream as a rain cloud sitting on top.  We used blue food coloring to drop into the cloud filling it with “rain”.  As the food coloring trickled downward, it fell through the water similarly to how rain falls through the atmosphere.  This helped us to focus on how rain and clouds work rather than the sounds of thunder outside which can be a bit unsettling.

Many of our friends have been interested in making “bug homes” outside to attract insects, especially pill bugs, as they wake up from winter time.  We brought this interest indoors today for some imaginative play.  We used sand sticks and rocks to build our own homes for bugs.  We got a chance to talk about where different kinds of insects and spiders might like to live. 

A few of our friends used their puppets that they made Friday to put on a puppet show today!

Breakfast: Oatmeal & “crunchy” pears

Lunch: Scrambled egg bake (eggs, sausage, & peppers), cantaloupe/bananas, green beans/peppers

PM Snack: Blue corn chips & hummus

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans & bell peppers

Link to pictures:  2023-04-05

Hopefully the sun comes out soon!

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim