Good Afternoon and Happy Friday.

Today, we colored in our journal binders with bright, vibrant colors. We work on looking for the first letter in our name to find our specific binder.

We enjoyed the rest of our day engaging in multiple activities throughout the classroom.

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with the choice of either cream cheese or peanut butter and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat warmed tortillas with ham and shredded cheese, corn and oranges.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and block Colby Jack cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend. We will see you all on Monday.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

In K/PREK1 group, we read ‘A Child’s Calendar’ which is a book that focuses on the months of the year. Each month has a few pictures as well as a description about things that happen in that month. For example, February talks about what the weather may look like as well as Valentine’s Day! At this age, children associate months with things that are important to them: birthdays and holidays mostly!

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

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A lot of our friends have been interested in making books this week! They make several illustrations and when they’re done, they ask a teacher to staple the book together. After William and James finished their books this morning, they sat in the reading area and read each other their book.

While there may not have been any words, that didn’t stop them from giving great details about the characters in their story as well as events that occurred.

Children got the playdough out at the art table and the spaces quickly filled up! Playdough is one of our favorite sensory experiences.

Dr. Rowan was quite thorough with the checkups she gave her friends this morning! She checked everyone’s ears, administered shots, and checked to see if there were any broke bones. One friend shared that they get a little scared at the doctor so Dr. Rowan gave them some water to help calm their mind.

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups (our most favorite lunch EVER!),, whole wheat tortilla/bread, fresh pears/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Goldfish and sliced cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/18

Good Afternoon!

Mack and Evie had to answer two questions for their kindergarten sign in: “What do clocks tell us?” and “Write one thing that you see on a calendar.” They each were able to answer these questions using kid spelling!

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

We read, ‘Croc Around The Clock’ in K/PREK1 which is a story focused on clocks. It helped as we transitioned into our activity where each child was given a time and they had to move the two hands on the clock to make that time.

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of the day!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh pineapple, and fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Peanuts and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/cherry tomatoes.

Have a great evening! Stay warm and safe!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/17

Good Afternoon.

One of our two year old friends asked Miss Annastecia if we could paint today? That is right up Annastecia’s alley, so she found us a very cool and unique way to paint. We used two of our large big blocks, placed a piece of paper cut to size and then rolled our sensory balls in the block to make very neat patterns.

Miss Mindy came for a short visit this morning and read a story to some of us. We LOVED having her visit and read!

We then listened to teacher stories. Miss Bekah found some books down in the basement that we haven’t heard. Our “new” books were very good! We loved them.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and black beans, sweet potatoes and pears/banana.

Snack: Sunflower seeds and Whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a nice night and please drive safe with the nasty weather headed our way!

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

Today, friends pulled out the colorful big blocks, lined them up and then sat on them pretending to be a choo choo train. We then turned on a favorite train song of ours and pretended we were on a journey and we went to many different places. What a great wat to use our imaginations.

Then, a friend asked me to take a picture of us, so we took some selfies.  

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat butter toast, broccoli and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat tortillas with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a nice evening.

Marty

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Welcome Warm Wednesday!

Just for laughs: “What’s it like having a toddler? Imagine raising a heavily caffeinated chimpanzee who is allergic to sleep.”

Enjoy our pictures from today.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with oranges

Lunch: Farm fresh eggs, whole wheat tortillas, carrots, & cantaloupe

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers & red/yellow peppers

PM Snack: Buttered popcorn & strawberries/grapes

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Have a lovely rest of your day!

Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

For kindergarten sign in, Mack and Evie had to place four specific scenes from ‘The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear’ into the order in which they occurred. First, we read the authors words aloud before Mack and Evie tried placing them into the correct order. They both got it on the first try!

K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.

We read, ‘The Sandwich Swap’ in K/PREK1 group, which is one of our favorite stories in our MACK collection. This week, our focus is on friendship and how to identify how to be a good friend. Once the story was over, we talked about concepts of time. We worked with three categories: one second, one minute, and one hour. There were several activities that we read aloud and decided as a group what category each activity should go in! When we were done, friends immediately said, “Each group has equal cards!”

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

In PREK2 group, Miss Kim read, ‘The Mitten’. Afterwards, children worked together to put the animals in order depending on when they went into the mitten!

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh apples.

Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread, block swiss cheese, fresh oranges, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/15

Good Afternoon.

We had a very busy day today! Just what we like.  

We were all happily engaged in our puffy painting activity. The colors were pretty pastels and full of fluff! We used pink, purple, green, yellow, orange and grey.

We then listened to many interactive songs that we could get our bodies movin” and groovin’ too.  Since most days we are unable to get outdoors, this type of activity is a great way to get some exercise and quicker body movements. Not to mention, we just love to dance and listen to music.

Paige and a friend are having fun engaging in the shape house activity. They will take their shaped object and find the spot where that specific shape piece fits into the house.

Then, their friend, Emily decides to join n the fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, broccoli and oranges and strawberries.

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with butter and cinnamon.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

We read, ‘101 Dalmatians’ in K/PREK1 group. Afterwards, each group member got one illustration from the book. We all formed a circle and shared the illustration that everyone had. Together, they worked to put the illustrations into the order in which they occurred in the book!

K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.

It was all about self love and showing others love today! An art activity was set up at the art table where children used various paint colors to dot their paper heart using an eye dropper. Once they were done, they folded the heart into half to make prints on both sides.

While they were doing this activity, Miss Annastecia was writing down things that children loved about themselves. Some answers were:

“I am beautiful.”

“I am a good big brother.”

“I am helpful.”

“I have a kind heart.”

It can be challenging for children to show self love as well as  talking about what characteristics or personality traits that make them who they are. But after talking about things that we can love about ourselves, most children were able to come up with an amazing example!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and ground beef, fresh pears, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Homemade strawberry banana smoothie and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/14

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you are all having a great day.

Today, friends were VERY excited about handing out their Valentine’s cards to one another in their decorated bags!

 

We then headed into the kitchen for a fun sensory Valentine activity. We put glue on our pre-cut hearts and then placed pink and white petals onto our hearts.

We then took our heart boards and placed colorful pegs into the holes. This activity helps us with our hand-eye coordination and our color recognition skills.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and black beans, sweet potato’s and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers and strawberries.

Wee Sprouts: Cooked carrots.

Have a fantastic night!

Marty

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