Good Afternoon!

First and foremost, we want to send out a big happy 4th birthday to Daniel! We are so glad we got to spend your 4th birthday with you!

The kindergarteners had to write the number that came before and after a specific number this morning for their sign in . For example, they wrote the numbers 12 and 14 as they came before and after the number 13 that was the focus. This theme rolled over into our K group time where children got the opportunity to write a number that was missing in a number line from 0 to 20.

K.NS.3: Find the number that is one more than or one less than any whole number up to 20.

In PREK2, children worked with addition problems, specifically when adding 1 to a number.

Check out the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh apples.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/oranges, and fresh broccoli/snap peas.

PM snack– Daniel’s birthday treat: pretzels and popcorn.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/11

Good Afternoon!

We read, ‘There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!’ in K group. During kindergarten sign in, we focused on creating word families so that lead our group chat today. After we finished up the story, we created three different word families that focused on the words wit, candy, and pin. We identified the similarities in each word family such as ‘in’ in the pin word family.

K.RF.3.5: Add, delete, or substitute sounds to change words.

In PREK2, children created a rhyming word with their name! They talked about rhyming words and how you can create a rhyming word by removing the first letter of the word and replacing it with another letter.

The rest of our morning revolved around activities such as magnatiles, art easel, art table, and puzzles. And yes, we did get out some holiday toys for the housekeeping area!

We tried to spend as much time as possible outside today! We’ve been LOVING this weather so far this week and aren’t that excited to see colder temps come in the days ahead.

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh apples.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh broccoli/carrots.

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/broccoli.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/10

Good Afternoon.

This morning we welcomed Miss Bekah back from her day off yesterday with, “Bekahhhh” and big smiles  

Friends engaged in a fun art activity today! Dot painting is always a fun activity for us to outside of our regular painting and or coloring. We can learn our colors and how to softly stamp our papers with these special style markers.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain tortilla with shredded cheese, carrots and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with butter.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our Monday!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, banana, and fresh peppers/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/9

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain English muffins with butter and cinnamon and pears.

Lunch:Whole wheat pasta with marinara and shredded cheese, snap peas and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt and granola.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a nice night!

Marty

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Happy Friday!

In K group, we read, ‘What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs?’ which is a fiction story about a brothers theory of what really happened to the dinosaurs. We thought their theories were very funny! (think spaceships!)

Afterwards, each friend had to the opportunity to add a singular or plural noun to the missing space in a sentence. For example, Z had to fill in the sentence, ‘I have one ________ at my house.’ She filled it in with baby sister creating the sentence, ‘I have one baby sister at my house.’

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g., dog/dogs, cat/cats).

In PREK2, children worked with laminated pumpkins with various numbers of each pumpkin. They had to match the number to the correct number of orange gems!

Friends took turns this morning exploring the light table and various manipulatives. Mostly, friends took the toys and sorted them by color into groups around the light table.

The sensory table was made available as friends moved colored rice around the bin. Children used scoopers and different utensils to fill and dump the rice.

“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them”

-Dr. Maria Montessori

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham and cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears/oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Pretzels and cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/6

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

Friends enjoyed engaging in the indoor and outdoor dramatic play centers today.

They were cooking up some good foods for their friends and teachers to gobble up. 

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

Lunch: Whole grain tortillas, turkey lunchmeat, snap peas and strawberries.

Snack: Whole grain goldfish cheese crackers and block cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

In K group, we read, ‘My Apron’ by Eric Carle. Before we started reading, I read a sentence that was on the front cover stating that the story was from Eric’s real life and immediately, friends shared, “That’s a non fiction story!”

As we finished up the story, we moved into singular and plural nouns. I read the sentence aloud with two different options for the noun. For example:

“I have two dog/dogs at home.”

Children worked together to determine which word made sense. We chose the word that completed the sentence and tapped it in the blank spot.

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g., dog/dogs, cat/cats).

In PREK2, children drew a line matching an illustration to the correct number. For instance, Evie drew a line from an illustration with four circles to the number 4.

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

-George Bernard Shaw

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh watermelon, and fresh broccoli/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and roasted pepitas.

Wee Sprout– Fresh broccoli/pepper.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/5

Good Afternoon.

Today while playing outdoors several friends worked on strengthening their gross motor skills by doing some climbing.

Climbing in this particular area takes a little more effort and stability as it is an uphill climb and on large rocks.

Our friends ROCKED it out, and had so much fun reaching their goal…the top of the platform to get to the slides to slide down.

Nesta then had fun engaging in a little more gross motor activity. Running around the circular path with her sister and another Wee Friend’er! What a GREAT day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix with banana.

Lunch:Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, corn and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

What another beautiful day! We got outside a tad earlier than our norm today to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air.  

Nesta climbed all the way to the top of the climbing house and was very proud of her accomplishment. This is a great  activity to enhance our gross motor skills and our confidence level.

Baby Paige was awake during our outside time and got to enjoy it as well.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat butter toast, carrots and strawberries.

Snack: Whole wheat crackers and pumpkin seeds. (Fresh from our pumpkin)

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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