Good Afternoon.

This morning our friends had a great time with an art/paint project for our Wee Art Gallery!

The finished products are very cool with fun colors to help gear us up for the Fall season.

Adrian was interested in our yellow flowers that we have planted in our garden area. Adrian loves to look and feel the pretty flowers.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and oranges.

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

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and oranges.

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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Welcome to September!

Happy birthday, Evie!! Evie celebrated her 4th birthday today! We are so happy we were able to celebrate with her.

FYI: if you’re looking for a fun and new snack at home, Evie brought in frozen watermelon popsicles and our friends LOVED them.

This is how Evie’s mom made them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qJMfuriTI

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Kindergarteners sign in this morning revolved around objects in different arrays: specifically a rectangular array, circular array, and in a line. When Sophia got to the circular array, she said, “Oh wow! I am going to place my finger here so I know where I started.”

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

We read, ‘Here Comes The Big Parade’ in our K group. The book focused on every uppercase and lowercase letter in the alphabet. On each page, that letter was prevalent so we talked not only about the letter but the sound that it makes. Before heading to the journal table, we plugged in some missing letters that were on the chalkboard. We pointed to the letters together and if we came to a blank spot, friends had to figure out who had the missing letter and tape it up in the line.

K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

In PREK2, friends matched numbers to a group of items. For example, Daniel had the number 9 and his job was to find the picture with nine items!

Breakfast– Corn Crunch and fresh pineapple/strawberries.

Lunch– Homemade whole wheat waffles, turkey, fresh oranges, and fresh cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Evie’s birthday treat: frozen watermelon and whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/1

Happy SEPTEMBER!!!! Wow…. its close to being Fall Ya’ll!!  

We had a GREAT Tuesday!

Nesta is so in-tune with our pretend babies and their “needs.” She loves to feed them, burp them, pat their backs to comfort them and snuggle them. She shows such love!!

We had a small water play day. Miss Bekah put a small amount of water in the tin circles with the water animals. Friends had a great time all while getting a little wet!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, carrots and banana and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Monday!

Today, our class for the school year became complete! Ellie joined our classroom today after being over at Wee Wee! We are so excited to have Ellie in our classroom and round out our 2020 crew.

This week, we are kicking off our MACK curriculum. This is our second full year of implementing this curriculum into our daily routine. MACK stands for Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness Curriculum. Our Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness curriculum provides teachers with direct-teaching learning goals in 5 areas over a 12 week cycle. To read up on this ‘newer’ addition to our curriculum, you can read up on it here (plus look at our ever growing list of awesome books!)

https://weefriendskids.com/about-us/program-philosophy/

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This week’s MACK is:

Children will learn that mindfulness involves paying attention on purpose in the present moment with curiosity and kindness. Children will use their sense to describe what they are feeling and seeing in the world around them.

In K group, we read ‘The Listening Walk’ which speaks to listening instead of talking. When you stop talking, you can hear much more going on around you. Afterwards, each friend got the chance to come to the chalkboard and count the numbers of items on a specific paper. For example. Mack came up to the chalkboard and counted 4 diamonds. After he counted the four diamonds, he found the number 4 and tapped it above the picture that displayed ‘4’.

In our kindergarten curriculum, we’ll focus on the following FAB’s this week:

K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

K.NS.4: Perform one-to-one correspondence tasks.

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

In PREK2, Miss Kim’s group drew lines from a picture to the number the picture represented!

The rest of our day revolved around lovely piano sounds, art creations for special people in our lives, and WONDEROUS outside time.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh strawberries.

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

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/31

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend.

The kids were super excited to see their new pictures hanging up on our picture frames today! They are all so cute and have grown so much!

Miss Paige is getting to be such a big girl. She LOVES to look at her jungle gym mat dangles as she works on reaching out for them.  

Meanwhile, our toddler group is engaged in the permanence boxes.

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

Breakfast: Whole grain English muffins with butter and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded cheese and marinara sauce, mixed veggies and oranges.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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

Today we say Goodbye to our good friend, Ellie. Sadly, she  has graduated to Infant/Toddler classroom and will be moving into the Pre-school classroom. We are VERY happy that she is just a classroom away and that we will still see her daily.  

These last few weeks Ellie has been a wonderful “Teacher’s Assistant”to Rebekah and I, helping us show the many new toddlers we have in the classroom the ropes! She has LOVED her title and did a great job!

Adrian enjoyed engaging in the four piece knobbed puzzle. This activity enhances his fine motor, hand-eye coordination and cognitive skills. We LOVE puzzles!!! 

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and oranges.

Lunch: Warmed whole wheat English muffins with marinara and shredded cheese, mixed veggies and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and block cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Peppers.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

After we read, ‘I’m The Best!’ in K group, we used the community helpers from group yesterday as a catalyst for an activity today! Each friend got to come up to the board and choose a community helper. They took the word card back to their mat and they had to say aloud a tool that the community helper uses to do their job! So, for example, a child had ‘police officer’. They shared that a police officer needs a police car to do their job. We all had a discussion where other peers shared different tools that the community helper would need.

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

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The rest of the day was full of bead bracelets, marker creations, magnatile towers, and TONS of happiness and smiles.

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

Lunch– Turkey on whole wheat flatbread, fresh watermelon/oranges, and fresh snap peas/carrots.

PM snack– Cheddar block cheese and pretzels.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/carrots.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/28

Good Afternoon!

We read, ‘Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face’ in K group  which is a huge collection of funny poems! Each friend got a turn to pick a poem before we started in on the activity for group time. There were 9 community helpers that were taped to the chalkboard. We read them aloud and after, I read a description of a community helper and by working together, we were able to match each helper to their description!

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

It was quite the busy morning! Friends requested beads + pipe cleaners as well as the art easel. We saw older friends take their younger peers under their wing and help them with these activities—one of the many benefits of a multi-age classroom!

The rest of our morning was a mixture of inside time where our younger friends got in some wonderful gross motor activity while the outside offered up more of a quiet down time. Miss Kim brought out a big blanket and some of our favorite books for a quieter activity in the shade!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

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

PM snack– Wheat thins and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/27

Good Afternoon.

What’s better than story time when we are enjoying the fresh air?!? Friends LOVE when we read outdoors and quickly gather around teachers to listen.  

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded beef, carrots and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans.

Have a fantastic night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

We had a great water play day today and everyone was so excited to get outside and get started. Happy faces, happy feet, happy bodies in motion.  

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

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

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers and hummus.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great night.

Marty

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