Happy Friday!

We are so thankful that we could be together to end our week!

Evie got caught up on her kindergarten sign ins, focusing on comparison words and text genres.

There were a few friends who requested the water colors! Children set up shop at the art easel and the art table. They used a combination of water and paints to cover their white paper!

We got new bristle blocks and friends were thrilled to get to explore them this morning! A few new items were added to our bristle blocks collection: eyes being one new addition! Children used the new bristle block eyes on creatures that they built.

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears, and fresh snap peas.

PM snack– Goldfish and block swiss cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/broccoli.

Have a great weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/4

Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a great couple of snowy days with your kiddos 

I have some GREAT news to share with you. Katie and Andrew are the now the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy! Benjamin Diltz was born on 2/2/2022. Congratulations to the Diltz family.

Today we engaged in a fun sensory art activity. We used our dot markers on brown pieces of paper. This activity enhances your child’s hand-eye coordination, color recognition skills along with the feel of the paint that comes out from the marker itself.

Paige, Emily And Emma all enjoyed manipulating musical instruments today. They can hear the different sounds being made on the piano and the xylophone. Our friends always make such beautiful music.

Friends often ask for teachers to read Teacher books. It is amazing that all of our Wee Wee’s LOVE sitting and listening to stories for an extended period of time.

Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal with cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, broccoli and apples.

Snack: Pretzels and Cheddar cheese slices.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a lovely weekend.

Marty

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Happy February!

Miss Tami brought in a Dr. kit for our classroom and friends are really enjoying it. It comes in a very cute Dr. bag and has many Dr. tools to engage in and manipulate.

Today a family in the classroom is celebrating the Lunar New Year! Books were read to us by Tarryn and we really enjoyed listening and seeing all the neat pictures. Thank you so much!

We were excited to go outdoors this morning. We loved playing in the snow!!!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with peanut butter, cheddar cheese slices, peas/carrots and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with butter and cinnamon.

Wee Sprouts: Peas/carrots.

Have a great night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon and Happy Monday!

Friends enjoyed a fun obstacle course today to get our bodies in motion and enjoy some gross motor play.

The waffle block activity a great activity to enhance a child’s fine motor, color recognition and hand-eye coordination skills. Emma really enjoyed engaging with her friends sharing her blocks with them.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded chicken, cucumbers and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a lovely night.
Marty

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Good Afternoon and Happy Friday! I hope you all have had a great week.

Today we painted at the easel and with toothbrushes. This is a very different painting object than what we used too, but we loved it! We used blue, green, red and yellow colors for our masterpieces.

We also engaged in the moon sand sensory table.

Hannah worked on manipulating puzzles today. She enjoyed placing the numbers of one puzzle together and letters on another puzzle style.

Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal with cinnamon and pears.

Lunch: Chicken and cream cheese roll ups, whole wheat bread, carrots and peas and pears.

Snack: Whole grain Cheese crackers and Mozzarella String cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

**The conference scheduling form is due tomorrow, Friday January 28. Thanks!

Evie had four problems in her kindergarten sign in. Each question required her to draw a shape with a specific number of sides. She had to draw a shape with zero sides, a shape with three sides, a shape with four equal sides, and a shape with four sides that weren’t the same length.

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

After reading, ‘Small Pig’ in K/PREK1 group, we used shape cards to steer the direction of our group. I went first and explained what the activity entailed. Each friend got a chance to do at least one card. On the card, it shows what shapes you need to complete the problem. Daniel had to get six triangles so that he could form a new shape: a hexagon! A few of the other problems we solved were: two squares creating a new rectangle as well as two triangles and two rhombuses to create a new hexagon.

When we were done, Evie asked, “Are there more cards?!”—so we plan on exploring the rest of the shape cards later this afternoon!

K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g., create a rectangle composed of two triangles).

In PREK2 group, children discussed story order before heading to the journal table.

Rowan and Nesta explored activities by themselves this morning before getting together later in the morning to dive into cooperative play and a short stint in the reading area. Rowan has been enjoying the drawing/sketch books at the art table while Nesta requested the light table in the science area. She chose a variety of manipulatives including colored hexagons that she used for various patterns.

A few friends compared their ‘muscles’ this morning. Daniel shared that he worked out yesterday while he was home and was quite excited to show his muscles to his peers.

..thankfully we eat a ton of vegetables that help our muscles grow!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh pineapple, and fresh pepper/cucumber/broccoli.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/27

Good Afternoon.

This morning while Miss Annastecia was in our classroom, she brought over her yoga activity game.  Friends were pretty excited to roll the dice and see what position they needed to move and stretch their bodies to. They had a GREAT yoga session with much enthusiasm.

Arthur enjoyed the wooden popper sticks activity. He utilizes his hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills to place the colored stick into a hole in the wooden base. giving a small amount of pressure the stick will pop out if its hole. This activity can also enhance a child’s color recognition and matching skills.

When Miss Annastecia was getting ready to leave our classroom andgo to the preschool classroom, friends wanted to give her a hand slap (five) as she was exiting.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and pears.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and black beans, peas and carrots and watermelon.

Snack: Sunflower seeds and Wheat crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a splendid night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

Today was another busy day today full of fun.  

We had our PTQ (Paths To Quality) visit today and our friends were excited to see her when she arrived. Emily enjoyed her so much, she decided to stick close by nd check out what she was working on.

With the temperatures being extra fridgid these days, we decided to bring some of our snow from our outdoor environment inside for a cold and wet sensory activity! Boy, were our little hands super chilly when we were all done. We had a great time and enjoyed being able to eat and play with the snow.

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh eggs, whole wheat butter toast, corn and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat flat bread with cream cheese.

Wee sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a warm night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/26

Good Afternoon!

In K/PREK1 group, we read ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ which is one of our favorite fiction stories! Children love to fantasize about food falling from the sky as well as sharing what foods they would pick for each meal.

An activity was done in PREK2 group that focused on the story, ‘The Rabbit Listened’. There were several animals that were identified in the story so after the story was done, children put the animals in order for which they appeared in the story!

At the art table, friends got to paint ice in circular trays! They used a variety of water colors. Everyone had a different takeaway from seeing watercolors on the ice.

As the activity went on, the ice transformed and started to melt. This resulted in children commenting on the properties of ice and how easily the ice was broken since it had been sitting out. A group of friends talked about what would happen if hot water was poured on the ice melt. A simple art exploration turned into a science experiment that prompted conversations about the properties of water!

Children gathered on the building rug which was transformed to the yoga rug! Miss Annastecia brought in yoga dice from home. Each child was given a turn to roll the yoga dice to determine what pose the group tried next. The pose that was most challenging was ‘Cowface’. Cowface required children to sit straight up with their legs crossed over each other while bent. They had to take their arms and try to connect them behind their back (one arm over shoulder and one under)—it was challenging for all of us!

Breakfast– Kix and banana.

Lunch– Peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread, string cheese, fresh watermelon, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with cream cheese and sliced colby jack cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/25