Good Afternoon!

Evie and Mack worked with punctuations marks this morning for their kindergarten sign in. Yesterday, we started identifying the three common ending punctuation marks so today, they took three different marker colors to circle the periods, question marks, and exclamation points specifically.

They even went a step further and started identifying the punctuation marks in the description before the activity began!

K.W.6.2b: Punctuation– Recognizing and naming end punctuation.

Beautiful jewelry and gems were put out at the art table for children to explore. They talked about the size of the items as well as how each item made them feel.

It was quite the chilly morning but thankfully a large group of friends played Simon Says to keep themselves warm!

Breakfast– Kix and fresh apples.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh apples, and fresh cucumber/carrot.

PM snack– Homemade muffins, fresh orange slices, and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/26:

Good Afternoon.

Wow!! What a busy day the Wee Wee.’s had today.  

A friend asked for Miss Bekah to ready teacher stories… a continuance from Miss Marty reading them yesterday afternoon.We unfortunately ran out of time for everyone that was interested to finish listening.

We enjoyed them very much and found a book that lead us into singing and acting out the song, Where is Thumbkin. Our two year old’s were very curios and interested in what each of our fingers were called. Meanwhile the toddlers would attempt to use their fingers but really got into swaying their bodies back and forth to the tune that was being sung.

We then got engaged in a favorite song that we can also act out with our full body. See the bunnies sleeping is a classroom favorite. We sing softly while our little bunnies are sleeping, then we wake them with a merry tune and they wake up and jump all around. We then think of other animals we can be and imitate their sounds as we jump.

Last week we colored all over our classroom pumpkin with markers and this week we sang, Ring Around the Pumpkin and acted out those motions of falling down.

We then placed the pumpkin in the middle of us as we sat in a circle and rolled it to a specific friend while singing with a made up tune to make this activity more interesting and fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and Apples.

Lunch: Whole whet tortilla with refried beans and shredded Colby Jack shredded cheese, corn and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Corn

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast- Whole wheat english muffin with butter and fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/25

Good afternoon and Happy Monday!

PLEASE NOTE: FRIDAY WE WILL BE HAVING A PAJAMA DAY TO HELP US CELEBATE HALLOWEEN! IF YOU WOULD LIKE, PLEASE BRING YOUR LITTLE GOBBLINS IN SOME FUN AND FESTIVE PJ’S! BOOOOOOOO………

We started our rainy Monday with music and musical instruments. We got our bodies in motion by dancing, shaking our shakers and beating on our drums. We have two separate types of drums and while we were drumming away, we were able to hear the different sounds that these drums make. We also added in the colorful rings to make our dance party even better.

While our younger kiddos were engaging in the sensory bin our two year old’s engaged in some different age appropriate activities. They had fun matching gem shapes onto a card that displayed the gem shapes and dressing up a bear (puzzle) with different outfits. 

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat Penne noodles with butter and black beans, peas and apples.

Snack:Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– B’s birthday snack: homemade pumpkin muffins and cheddar sliced cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/22

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

PLEASE NOTE: Wee Wee’s will go outdoors (weather permitting) even with the colder temps. Please bring your child a heavy coat, hat and mittens as our mornings can be a little chillier. Also, if you wouldn’t mind, can you please label your child’s belongings. Thank You!

This morning a friend was sitting on my lap playing with my sweatshirt zipper. She would zip it up and then zip it down being extra careful that she didn’t zip my neck.  We talked about how she had buttons on her sweater and how I had a zipper. We then worked on saying button and zipper and the B and Z sound they make.

We were excited to color all over our classroom pumpkin today! We used our colorful markers to paint the body and stem of the pumpkin.

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

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with Turkey lunchmeat, cucumbers and oranges.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers with Mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty.

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Good Afternoon!

For kindergarten sign in, Evie used a pie chart to gather information. The pie chart dealt with favorite colors so she used the pie chart to answer three specific questions to the information that was on the pie chart.

K.W.5: With support, build understanding of a topic using various sources. (Identify relevant pictures, charts, grade- appropriate texts, personal experiences, or people as sources)

We continued exploring pie charts in K/PREK1 group after we read, ‘Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs’. The pie chart that we explored during group focused on favorite fruits. Children were asked questions such as, “What fruit had the most votes?” or “What two fruits had equal number of votes?”

Earlier this morning, an art activity was made available at the table. Children used black paper, glitter paint, and a leaf to make their unique creation. Each child had a leaf on their black paper and they were able to use several glitter paint colors to add to their leaf.

While exploring this project, children discussed the colors they see during the fall time.

We are definitely noticing the shift in weather as one friend stood out on the deck for 10 seconds and proclaimed, “Wow, it’s cold!”

The weather doesn’t stop us from playing and exploring our outdoor environment though!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef, fresh strawberries/pineapple/cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/21

Good Afternoon.

This morning we engaged with our freshly made playdoh. We loved pounding, smashing, cutting and applying pressure to our cookie cutters to make shapes. We added cinnamon to our dough and friends enjoyed smelling it.

 

Friends were very happy running around the play area outside today! What fantastic movement our little ones have!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix with strawberries.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and shredded chicken, California blend vegetable mixture and watermelon.

Snack: Whole wheat wheat thins and Sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Orange peppers.

Have a great night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

This morning Katherine was happily looking at herself in the mirror. She would then glance back at a teacher and just smile then go back to looking at herself the mirror. Precious moments!!

We made new playdoh today! Miss Bekah asked our friends if they would like to help! We were able to see all of our ingredients and participate in pouring and stirring the different items we needed. We were also able to feel the soft texture of the flour and feel the fine rougher texture of the salt we used before smelling the cinnamon we added.  We were great little bakers.

The preschool classroom placed their pumpkins out in the back parking pad area for animals to eat off of and we saw squirrels chomping away! We were very excited to watch them.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat butter toast, sweet potato crinkles and strawberries.

Snack: Whole grain Blue corn chips with refried beans.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes.

Have a fantastic night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

For kindergarten sign in, Evie had to identify which shape came next in the pattern that was given. Evie looked at four different patterns that focused on color AND shape. She determined which colored shape came next in the blank spot and filled it in.

K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for simple repeating and growing patterns with numbers and shapes.

After we finished our story in K/PREK1 group, Evie and her two preschool peers got to make up their own pattern using shapes! Usually, making up an original pattern is a little more challenging that completing a pattern that has already been given to you.

Some friends chose to use shape and color in their pattern while others chose simply to use color!

K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for simple repeating and growing patterns with numbers and shapes.

We’ve been slowing working our way to this point with the pumpkins this week: the removal of the pumpkin guts!

It is quite the sensory experience so inevitably, there were some friends who were all about it while others chose not to participate or simply chose to ‘touch’ it.

It’s getting to be that time of year where children have to grab a jacket or sweatshirt before heading outside, especially in the morning! The sun was out which made for the perfect fall morning.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.

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

PM snack– Blue corn chips with hummus.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cherry tomatoes.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/20