Good Afternoon!

In K group, we read, ‘50 Below Zero’ which is a story about a little boy who’s father sleep walks out into the cold and becomes frozen! Thankfully, his son gets his home and puts him in a warm bath! This lead into a conversation about the words ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ during group.

We worked together, taking turns to come up with a word that we correlate with ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ as well as ‘long’ and ‘short’.

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

In PREK2, children worked together to sort various pictures starting with the coldest and ending with the hottest!

A friend had asked to play Go Fish shortly after breakfast. This lead to a few rounds with six players! Our older friends did a fantastic job at guiding their younger peers and explaining the rules and objectives to the game.

Here’s a quick look at the rest of our morning!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh pears.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread/tortilla, fresh strawberries/banana, and fresh peppers/cucumber.

PM snack– Hummus with blue corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh peppers/cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/14

Good Afternoon!

What a day full of smiles and sunshine!

We had an active day where we were able to enjoy the weather—we hope you had a wonderful day too!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh apples.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, block cheese,  banana, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/13

Good Afternoon.

Friends really enjoyed engaging in puzzles this morning. Some puzzles were the four piece style and other puzzles a little more difficult with nine pieces.

Friends are using their cognitive skills when trying to figure out where the specific pieces go. Their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills are also being enhanced.

Breakfast: Whole grain  Chex cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat grilled cheese sandwiches, mixed veggies and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagels with butter.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh red pepper.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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Happy Monday!

These last few months have been very different and while we were at home earlier this year, all of the children received the book ‘The Invisible String’ in the mail. We LOVE this book. It does a great job at explaining that even though you’re not close to someone, they’re still in your hear: you’re connected to that person by an invisible string.

After we read the story in K group, each friend pulled a string from the pile in my hand and once everyone had a piece of string, we sorted the pieces from shortest to longest! Even by just an eyeball glance, children put the string pieces into the correct order.

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

In PREK2, children chose two objects: one from the tray and one from the black bucket. They held each item in their hand and told Miss Kim which object was heavier!

Children flocked to the welcome activity that revolved around various cardboard pieces, hammers, and golf tees. Children chose the cardboard piece they’d like to explore and used their hammer to pound the golf tees into the cardboard.

It was a fabulous fall morning outside and friends scattered about, diving into various activities.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh apples, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh oranges.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/12

Good Afternoon.

This morning we had fun decorating our class pumpkin by coloring with markers on it.

This activity enhances our hand-eye coordination, fine motor and color recognition skills.

We then colored on loose leaf paper with markers and made many beautiful pictures. The pictures are in your child’s art section of their cubbies for your enjoyment at home or the office.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter and cinnamon toast and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara and shredded mozzarella cheese, corn and apples.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Have a lovely night.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

Throughout the week, we’ve been focusing on clocks and calendars in K group and today, we focused specifically on the days of the week. We put the days of the week on the chalkboard in the order that we saw them on the calendar.

At this age, children associate days of the week with special events or something that’s important to them! “Monday’s are pasta day!” a friend shared and another friend added, “Friday’s are my gymnastics day!”

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

In PREK2, children read, ‘Room on the Broom’. Afterwards, they worked together to put the events that happened in the story in order.

The rest of our Friday was consumed with stories in the reading area, tons of art creations using markers, scissors, glue, and beads for bracelets!

Breakfast– Homemade oatmeal pancakes with fresh apples.

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

PM snack– Pretzels and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/9

Happy Friday!

Today with lower numbers, we were able to fit everyone in 2 wagons and go on a wagon ride around the block.  While on our walk, we looked for beautiful Fall colors appearing in the trees.  We saw red, yellow and orange leaves.  We also found many houses that were decorated for Fall and Halloween.  We saw lots and lots of pumpkins, both big and small.We had a great ride!

Breakfast:  Whole grain Chex cereal and cantaloupe.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat flatbread, banana, and fresh green beans.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Goldfish cheese crackers and mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Red Bell Peppers.

Have a fabulous weekend and enjoy the beautiful Fall weather!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

We read, ‘Up, Up, Down’ in K group. After I said the title of the story aloud, Mack said, “Hey! Robert Munsch is the author of that book.”

Once we were done reading, I read four sentences strips and friends told me which event came first. I taped each sentence strip in the correct order and when we finished, Franklin asked, “Can we read both stories from today and yesterday to make one story?”—it ended up being a funny idea!

K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.

The rest of our morning was consumed with magnatiles, stories, creations at the art table, and exploration of our new playdough!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh snap peas/carrots.

PM snack– Sunflower seeds and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/8

Good Afternoon.

This morning we had a great time engaging with the colorful stacking puzzle activity.

This activity has multi function learning to it. We can learn what shape we are trying to stack, we can learn the color of the shape, and we can work on understanding the sequence of how the shapes are stacked from largest to smallest. We also can incorporate utilizing our hand-eye coordination skills.

Miss Annastecia worked with our friend Adrian on making a train track. They made their track and then Adrian happily rolled his cars and trucks around their track. He was quite happy with himself.

This activity can be a great confidence booster for our little ones. When they successfully get their track pieces to fit together, the smiles are in abundance.

Breakfast: Whole grain corn puffs and oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, carrots and pears.

Snack: Pretzels and mozzarella  string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday.

Friends really enjoyed the permanence boxes.

This activity enhances our hand-eye coordination, fine motor and color recognition skills. We take either the small balls or the circular coins and put them into their slots to watch as they roll down into the box portion. We LOVE these!!!

We then headed into the kitchen to do an activity with leaves and glue.

We collected leaves the other day that were falling off of our beautiful shade tree in the back yard to make a leaf collage.

This activity also enhances our hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as well as our sensory skills.

You can see our finished collages hanging on the windows throughout the classroom.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat butter toast, tomatoes and banana.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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