Happy Friday!

Now that the weather has gotten colder, please make sure your child has winter mittens and hats for morning outside play everyday.   Also, if you could put your child’s name or initials on their outside clothing that would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh orange slices.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat bread with hummus, fresh banana and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack:  Cantaloupe and Colby block cheese slices.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Happy Friday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh pears/banana, and fresh green beans/carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Goldfish and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/14

Good Afternoon!

This morning Miss Tina brought out the big tunnel with 4 different pathways to choose from and an opening to pop up out of in the middle.  We absolutely loved it!

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a sensory play experience with playdough.  We explored using a variety of textured cutting tools and rolling pins to see the different designs they made in it.  We also worked using playdough scissors to practice cutting our playdough.

Even though it was a chillier morning than we are used to, we bundled up and headed outside.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh cantaloupe.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, fresh pineapple and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack: Wheat Thins crackers and sunflower seeds.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

As one kindergarten shared once they were done with their sign in, “Wow! I wrote a lot!”.

The three kindergarteners had to write down a person in the classroom who is taller than they are as well as a peer who is shorter than they are. Once they were done with that, they had to list their family members in order from tallest to shortest. One kindergartener even added in their family dog!

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

Two of our kindergarteners built a very detailed creation using a combination of wooden train tracks and magnatiles. The magnatiles were individual houses while the train track went through the town. In the middle of the track, they wanted to use a bridge but it wasn’t staying up. So, using their problem solving skills, they used magnatiles to place underneath the bridge so that the bridge would stay up!

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh pineapple/apples, and fresh green beans/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/13

Good Afternoon!

This morning friends were busy using their imaginative play skills while engaged with several items.

First, Emily was putting the colored rings up against the wall and was moving them in an up and down motion.  Miss Bekah asked Emily what she was doing with them?  She replied, “painting the wall.”  Several others joined her.

The second activity was using the animals and wooden blocks.  They were putting their animals inside the hollow wooden blocks.  Paige said her animals were sleeping so we needed to talk quietly.

We then headed into the kitchen for some sensory play in the corn and bean table.

Eliza engaged in a sensory experience with the scarves while the older friends were playing in the sensory table.

We then headed outside for more sensory experiences while exploring the leaves, sand, rocks and chalk dust.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pears.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh cantaloupe and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and blue corn tortilla chips.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

We read a short Frog and Toad story during K/PREK1 group titled ‘The Story’ (that made all of us deep belly laugh, by the way!) before diving into our activity. Today, we discussed weight and what instrument we use when dealing with weight: a scale! I had a mockup drawing of a scale and we talked about how scales are used. We also referred to the teeter totter outside as a useful weight tool. I shared that if Millie and her younger brother both got on the teeter totter, Millie would go down to the ground and her brother would go up into the air because Millie weighs more. We used this way of thinking throughout our activity.

Each group member got two pictures of animals. They had to figure out which was weighed more as well as which one was lighter. Once the determined that, they placed the two animals appropriately on the scale. They double checked with their peers to make sure it was correct!

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

It was a busy morning full of activities! The art easel was requested so we opened that right after breakfast. Ka-noodle (a puzzle from my childhood!) has been a big hit lately with our older friends, so much so that we got a new ka-noodle where two friends can play against each other! It allows us to work on our problem solving skills, trial and error, and patience.

We are starting to say goodbye to the warmer temps but HELLO to leaves! Our wonderful tree in the backyard always drops the most perfect leaves into our play space. Today, children grabbed buckets from the sandbox to collect leaves. Several children worked together to collect leaves and make a big pile in the center of the yard. They took turns jumping into the pile which is one of our favorite fall time activities outside!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread/bread, fresh apples/banana, and fresh kale/cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/12

Good afternoon.

We started off our morning by exploring the Habi-trail. Some friends explored the area underneath while others explored the area on top.

We then danced to some of Jim Gill’s songs and incorporated some of our classroom toys, like the plastic rings, into our dancing.  When we froze our bodies, we said the color ring our foot or feet were in.

We enjoyed using markers and crayons to draw on a pumpkin shape that Miss Tina outlined on orange construction paper.  We are going to display them around the classroom to decorate for the season.

As we walked outside to play, we noticed a couple of trucks surrounding some of the trees behind our backyard. We watched from afar as they cut down some tree branches.

We enjoyed some other outside activities as well, such as: drawing with chalk, riding bikes, playing in the play house, and playing with baby dolls.

Breakfast: Kix cereal and fresh apple slices

Lunch: Refried beans and cheese on whole grain wheat tortilla, fresh cucumbers, and bananas.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with peanut butter and mozzarella string cheese stick.

Have a great evening!

Tina

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Chex and fresh pears.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/11

Good Afternoon!

This morning we all went our own separate ways to different areas of the classroom to play.  We explored the wooden loose parts, drove trucks and planes, climbed up the steps onto the habi-trail and built with Magna-Tiles.

We then were busy making our own music while shaking our shakers, rain stick and tambourine.

A friend then asked for the See The Bunnies Sleeping Song.  We acted out the sleeping part and being flamingos in the pictures.  The other animals we acted out were; pigs, horses, lions, and bunnies.

Miss Tina and I attended a conference over the weekend. Jim Gill who is a children’s songwriter and musician was the keynote speaker, so we listened and danced to a few of his songs,  the Silly Dance Contest and Jump and Count.

Today was trash truck Monday, so we were excited to see the truck come and empty our trash bin while we were outside.  After seeing the trash truck we headed to bury our feet in the sandbox and step out of it, dig and pour with shovels and small cups, use our fingers to poke holes into a sand mountain and drive and empty the dump truck in the rocks.

Breakfast:  Toasted whole grain wheat bread with butter and fresh pears.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with butter and shredded cheese, fresh oranges and peas and carrots.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and watermelon.

Wee Sprouts:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Happy Monday!

Our three kindergarteners were given five different items, varying in length. They had to sort the items starting with the shortest to the longest. Daniel fixed a mistake he had made very quickly while Bo and C compared the lengths of the items before placing them in order.

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

After reading, ‘Kindness Grows’ in K/PREK1 group which is a book from our MACK section, each child got a different colored pipe cleaner. We measured the pipe cleaners using a ruler. When I got the ruler out, I asked the group, “Does anyone know what this is called?”. A few friends called it a tape measurer while Rowan raised her hand and suggested, “Ruler?!”

Each child used the ruler to measure their pipe cleaner and we wrote down how long it is. Once we had the measurements of each pipe cleaner, we sorted them starting with the shortest to the longest!

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

An art activity was available at the art table this morning. We didn’t use brushes though: we used spray bottles to distribute the water colors! Each friend used a leaf stencil so leave prints were left behind once they were done spray their paper.

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

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and shredded beef, fresh watermelon, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/10