Good Afternoon.

Miss Paige is working hard on her crawling skills. She’s not a huge fan of tummy time but is starting to get there. We are super pleased with her progress and determination.

Meanwhile, the bigger kids are strengthening their gross motor skills while climbing, balancing and sliding down the soft star climber.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with Colby jack cheese, Whole wheat English muffins with butter, peas and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers and cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a glorious evening.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pears.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh pineapple/pears, and fresh broccoli.

PM snack– Hummus with blue corn chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/broccoli.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/3

Happy Friday!

After reading the third and final story in our Miss Nelson book, we played a memory game that had us matching the shape word to the correct shape. As friends found matches, they shared aspects of the shape that they knew. For example, “the square has four sides!” or “That’s not an octagon because it has six sides.”

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.)

Our Friday was jammed packed with interaction between peers. Children scattered throughout the environment and got into their Friday rhythm.

Maggie and Millie occupied housekeeping all morning, using a wide variety of toys in their play.

Franklin and a few older peers made their own books at the art table. Once they were finished with their book, they asked a teacher to staple it together!

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

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese and ham on whole wheat flatbread, fresh oranges/pears, and fresh broccoli/carrots.

PM snack– Pretzels and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/broccoli/pepper.

Have a fantastic weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/29

Happy Friday! I hope you all have had a GREAT week.

Please enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with peanut butter, cucumbers and apples.

Snack: Whole grain Cheese crackers and Cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans and cucumbers.

Have a lovely weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

One of our favorite books lately is the ‘Miss Nelson’ book that has three different stories in it. K group members love the character of Viola Swamp. Yesterday, we read ‘Miss Nelson Is Missing’ and today, we read, ‘Miss Nelson Is Back’. Afterwards, we played a memory game that revolved around book titles and characters.

This specific group LOVES memory games. We’ve been pulling any memory game we can think of as they’re very interested in them lately. They love the competitive nature of these memory games and enjoy pushing themselves and their peers.

On the pieces of paper, I wrote book titles as well as characters that are in those stories. For example, on one piece of paper was ‘The Gruffalo’ and on another was, ‘Mouse and Fox’ who are main characters in the story.

Friends liked this game so much, they asked to play a second round!

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

In PREK2, children played ‘Shape Ka-boom’ which is an interactive game that focuses on shapes and identifying them. Friends take turns pulling one stick at a time with a shape on it and they have to identify it. If someone pulls the ka-boom stick, they have to put all of their sticks back into the jar! They love this game!

For kindergarten sign in, children matched three illustrations to the correct wording from a popular story: The Itsy Bitsy Spider! Children looked at the illustration that was drawn by the illustrator and identified the correct sentence that was written by the author.

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

Children came to the art table all morning long to explore the new playdoh that was made earlier this week! It’s one of our favorite sensory activities.

Mack and Franklin continued their morning trend by playing the memory rhyming word game. A few of their younger peers looked on as they played, observing what they were doing and soaking in rhyming words that Mack and Franklin worked with.

Breakfast– Kix and fresh pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef, fresh oranges/pears/banana, and fresh broccoli/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/broccoli.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/28

Good Afternoon.

A friend brought in a puzzle from home today for us to try and we had a great time working through it with Miss Annastecia. This was a larger floor puzzle with 48 pieces, so it was a little more challenging for us, but we DID IT!!!  

We worked in our journals today! Friends love coloring with markers and crayons to make beautiful creations.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded beef, mixed vegetables and pears.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter.

Have a nice evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

Adrian was working on his balance skills today while walking on the textured stepping circles. These circles have different patterns/textures on them as well, for friends to have a sensory experience with their feet.

Paige is getting a little sensory experience herself with feeling the little spikey points on the large orange ball.  Just look at those smiles.  

Breakfast: Whole grin Chex cereal and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat butter toast, mixed vegetables and apples.

Snack: Pretzels and mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh pears, and fresh cherry tomatoes/carrots.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/27

Good Afternoon!

We read ‘Alphabet City’ in K group which is a book that focuses on each letter of the alphabet but pictures only! These pictures are of letters in a real life setting. For example, the letter E is the side of a stop light. We talked about how some books have words but no pictures as well as the opposite: pictures but no words!

Once we finished reading the story, the conversation about shapes continued as we identified the shapes that were highlighted. Each friend was given a shape and they had to say aloud how many sides and vertices that shape had. On the second example, several friends shared, “I think the numbers are going to be the same!” (referring to the number of sides and vertices). They turned out to be right!

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.)

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

In PREK2, Miss Kim drew various shapes on the dry erase board. Each friend was in charge of a shape and they had to take toothpicks to trace the shape.

We cleared the way for an art activity shortly after breakfast and it consumed our morning! Miss Kim built a pendulum and friends sure put it to use! Using a variety of colors (and a little water), they stood back, let go of the cup that was full of the paint + water mixture, and watched it go! Different designs were made depending on the direction that the cup went. Friends stood around and watched as paint splattered onto the paper (and the floor..and our socks) but my goodness: what fun we had!

Our PREK2 group and K group journal every day but lately, our younger friends have been interested in journaling! We offer it to them throughout the week so that they can get into the routine of journaling and what it all entails before they start PREK2 group.

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, fresh pineapple/apples, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and sliced cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/26

Good Snowy Tuesday!

Friends loved their time at the easel painting with bright, fun colors. This activity helps us strengthen our hand-eye coordination, fine motor and color recognition skills.

Adrian was enjoying the many dinosaurs he was engaging with today.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain warmed  tortillas with turkey lunchmeat and shredded Colby cheese, corn and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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