Good Afternoon.

A friend asked for the swing today. The swing is a great place to have fun, relax and enjoy a light breeze as we swing back and forth. There are times the swing decides to go its own way and spin in circles. Friends love when that happens.  

Paige enjoyed engaging with Bekah with the circle stackers. While stacking them, Miss Bekah was also working with Paige with the colors of the circles that were being stacked.

During outdoor play a preschool friend was playing with a ball and Miss Kim thought it would be a great idea to play “basketball,”  so she got a tomato cage so friends could throw their ball into the “hoop.” Genius!!

Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat peanut butter toast, mixed veggies and strawberries.

Snack: Whole wheat flatbread with hummus.

Wee Sprouts: Yellow peppers.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh peaches.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh cantaloupe/peaches, and fresh cucumber/snap peas.

PM snack– Hummus and blue corn chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/29

Good Afternoon!

**Over the next few weeks, please bring your child in clothing appropriate for the fall and teachers will send home summer clothes. Please look in your child’s cubby for clothes to take home. Thanks!

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Mack and Evie used alligator mouths to complete problems using the terms ‘greater than’, ‘less than’, and ‘equal to’. I use alligator mouths as an analogy because its a simple concept that children come to understand: an alligator would much rather have ten pieces of cake than five pieces of cake (meaning that the mouth is open to the 10).

We extended this activity into K/PREK1 group as each member got to choose two numbers. We used the alligator mouths to see which way the sign would be pointing. We came to the last problem where we realized that the two numbers were the same, which required an equal sign!

K.NS.7: Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.

The rest of our day revolved on engaging indoor activities and absolutely gorgeous weather. We love when we get to explore our outdoor environment.

Breakfast– Toast oatmeal squares with fresh apples.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, sliced cheddar cheese, fresh oranges, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/28

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the picture from our Tuesday.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

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

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Monday!

One of our FAB’s for the upcoming week is identifying important elements of text: one of our favorites! We are always discussing characters that we identify with or events within books that catch our attention.

We read, ‘Ladybug Girl and the Rescue Dogs’ in K/PREK1 group. We talked about the characters, setting, and three things that happened in the story. I asked, “What’s something that happened at the beginning/middle/end of the story?” Children were able to pick out events fairly easily and shared them right away!

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings, or events).

In PREK2, they read, ‘There’s Something In My Attic’. Today, they focused on one aspect of the text: characters!

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole wheat bread with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh pears, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumbers/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/27

Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

This morning friends got right into their play after breakfast! A friend asked for the permanence boxes. This is an activity that enhances our hand-eye coordination skills. We place the small balls and coins into their slots so we can see where they end up. We love it when the balls roll back to us.  

 

Another friend used her gross motor climbing skills to climb up the ladder and look out of the window.

We then headed into the kitchen area to utilize our fine motor skills. We manipulated with the pegs and their boards. This activity also allows us to use our color recognition and our hand-eye coordination skills. Everyone enjoyed this activity.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded beef, peas/cucumbers and apples.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers and peas.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.I hope you all had a great week.

Today we welcomed an IUSB Early Childhood student to observe our classroom for the next ten weeks as part of receiving her degree. Anna really did well with our littles and they really enjoyed her and her enthusiasm with them. She will be visiting the classroom on Friday’s from 8:15 am to 10:15 am. We are excited to have her!

This morning a friend was in the mood for showing us moves like an acrobat.

We FINALLY got to go outside today and we LOVED every second. Just look at those happy faces.  

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

Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, cooked carrots and pineapple.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and block mild cheddar cheese cubes.

Wee Sprouts: Cooked carrots.

Have a lovely weekend.

Marty

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Happy Sunny Friday!

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes w/ PB & Pears

Lunch: Hummus on whole wheat bread, fresh cucumbers/carrots, & apple slices

PM Snack: Goldfish & string cheese

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers & carrot sticks

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Have a gorgeous afternoon and weekend!

Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

We hit the fourth and final genre during K/PREK1 group today: poetry!

Each member got to choose one poem from the book. We noticed quickly that the poems use a lot of rhyming words! A few children even helped me fill in the blank of a poem with the correct rhyming word.

Before friends rolled up their mats to journal, they had to answer a question specific to them. I gave each child three words that were similar and they had to come up with a fourth word that fit that category. For example, I gave Mack the words pig, horse, and chicken. He said “Those are farm animals! My word is cow!”

K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairy-tales, poems).

In PREK2, children had to observe four square picture tiles. They had to choose which square tile didn’t match the rest.

Evie and a few older friends used the sunflower seeds that we removed from the sunflower head yesterday to make animal feeders for outside! Friends used a toilet paper roll, peanut butter, butter knife, and sunflower seeds to make the feeder.

We’re anxious to see what animals visit our feeder!

The rest of our morning was full of stories, puzzles, and art work—the perfect trifecta for this rainy and cold day.

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/23

Good Afternoon.

This morning we listened to several songs of all different kinds. We listened to kids music on Pandora, we listened to Fall/Halloween songs and we also listened too and acted out the body movements to, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We sure do love our Dance parties.  

While some of our friends decided to keep dancing others of us went into the kitchen area to engage in the moon sand. We scooped, poured and simply just let our hands feel the silky soft texture of the sand.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and shredded chicken, corn and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat thin crackers with Pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a lovely night!

Marty

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