Good Afternoon!
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh pears.
Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread/tortillas, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/snap peas/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with butter and cheddar block cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cucumber/carrots.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/7
Good Afternoon!
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We just finished up our 12 week FAB cycle last week. For the next two weeks, we’ll be revisiting a few FAB’s that we’ve worked on these last 12 weeks.
Today, it was all about syllables!
Mack and Evie used three different colors to identify whether a word was a one, two, or three syllable word. They used both methods to count syllables.
We continued this topic into K/PREK1 group. After reading, ‘Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site’, we read several words that were in the book. Children worked together to figure out what category each word went into. Friends did a great job at keeping track how many words were in each group. I heard things like, “Now the 2 and 3 group each have the same number!”
Our morning was full of painting, magnatiles, and a present wrapping station that was set up at the circle table.
Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh pears.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh pineapple, and fresh snap peas/pepper.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh pineapple.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/6
Happy Friday!
We added a new dimension into our magnatile play: bells!
Children quickly found out that the bells were magnetic and stuck to all of the magnatiles. Our imaginations were on full drive as friends were deciding how to use the bells in their magnatile creation.
There were some very unique structures!
Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!
Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.
Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups with whole wheat tortillas, fresh pears, and fresh snap peas/carrots.
PM snack– Pretzels/goldfish and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/snap peas.
Have a wonderful weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/3
Happy Friday! I hope you all had a great week.
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Unfortunately, we said goodbye to our student teacher Anna today! We really liked her and enjoyed her spending time with us. She is going to make a wonderful teacher.
While the smaller friends played in the main area of the classroom, our two year old friends were excited about engaging in puzzles. They’re favorite puzzles right now are the larger letter ones.
Katherine thought puzzles looked like fun, so she too joined in the puzzle fun and did some that were age appropriate for her level of learning.
The babies enjoyed engaging in the musical instruments. Arthur enjoyed the xylophone while Emma enjoyed the piano. 
They made beautiful music together.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and apples.
Lunch: Whole wheat English muffins with marinara and shredded cheese pizzas, corn and mandarin oranges.
Snack: Pretzels and Mozzarella string cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a fantastic weekend.
Marty
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Good Afternoon!
We read, ‘Gracie’s Night’ in K/PREK1 group today. It talks about Hanukah and a few traditions that are prevalent during Hanukah.
As friends were rolling up their mats, they each shared a tradition that their family does during the holiday season. A few of the answers were:
“Putting up the Christmas tree together.”
“Opening gifts together.”
“My manga (grandma) sleeps over on Christmas Eve.”
Everyone’s answers were different but equally unique and special!
Social Studies Holiday Objectives: Children will see their family’s approach to holidays honored and will become aware of and be comfortable with the reality that people happily celebrate different holidays or celebrate the same holiday in different ways.
In PREK2 group, children looked at a big map! They identified places in the United States that have unique aspects such as forests, cities, rivers, oceans, and islands.
We had a wonderful morning!
Some children chose to help wrap up our cardboard trees by adding ornaments while others settled down in the reading area to look at stories.
To begin the day, a few friends got out the sensory squares and made a design. They moved on their design in a specific way. They kept moving the squares to make a unique configuration.
It was a gorgeous December day! We will soak up any days like this that Mother Nature wants to give us!
Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh clementines.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and peanuts.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.
Have a lovely night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/2
Good Afternoon.
This morning we were all in the Christmas spirit and got out our musical bells and shakers out and sang Jingle Bells with Miss Annastecia.
Miss Emma is having a great time utilizing her gross motor skills climbing up the soft star climber. After she has successfully completed her climb, she decides to work on her summersault activity. 
YAY!!!! We were able to go outside again today!!!
Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and banana.
Lunch: Whole grain Brown rice with butter and shredded pork, corn and cantaloupe
Snack: Whole wheat crackers and Sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a lovely evening.
Marty
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Good Afternoon and Happy December!
Today we celebrated a friend’s second birthday! Our stackable numbered birthday cake was a big hit with our birthday girl and all of her friends.
We enjoyed working on stacking the different sized cake circles in their smallest to largest order and then we talked about how some of us were the number two on the cake circles and that very soon we would have two one year old’s in the classroom as well.
Emma was enjoying engaging with the dress up purses today in the housekeeping area.
Emily decided she needed to take a load off! 
Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal with cinnamon and oranges.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat butter toast, sweet potatoes and mandarin oranges.
Snack: Whole what flat bread with hummus.
Wee Spouts: Cucumbers.
Have a wonderful night.
Marty
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Happy Wednesday!
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with banana.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh snap peas/cucumber.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.
Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/broccoli.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/1
Good morning!
For K/PREK1 group, we read, ‘Ribbon Rescue’ written by Robert Munsch. We looked at the map of the world, identifying the things we saw such as rivers, oceans, countries, and cities. Things we didn’t see were trees, houses, and animals (just a few of the examples friends shared!).
Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.
In PREK2, children used a specific map of our indoor environment! Each child picked an object from the pile and had to identify which space in the environment that the item went in. For example, a friend picked a picture of a hammer and nails. They put the picture in the science area which is where our tools go!
Friends patiently waited for a turn at the art table to make their own snowflake! Children used paint, brushes, popsicle sticks, glitter, glue, ribbon, and confetti. Once they made their snowflake, they added whatever materials they wanted to it.
“We are like snowflakes; all different, all beautiful.”
Breakfast– Kix and fresh apples.
Lunch– Refried beans and shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh watermelon, and fresh green beans.
PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with cream cheese and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 11/30
Good Afternoon. What a beautiful sunny day. 
Today we did a painting activity with a really neat kind of “brush.” Miss Bekah tied a pipe cleaner together and friends painted with that as their brush. What a great idea!!!
We were very happy about getting to go outside and enjoy the warm sunshine and fresh air.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.
Lunch: Turkey lunchmeat with whole wheat bread, peas/peppers and banana.
Snack: Whole wheat tortilla with peanut butter.
Wee Sprouts: Orange peppers.
Have a great evening.
Marty
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