Good Afternoon.
Today we painted cut out paper clovers with green paint to decorate our classroom for St. Patrick’s day! Please make sure to look around the classroom for child’s creation. 
Breakfast: Whole grain corn puffs with apples.
Lunch: Whole wheat bread with Turkey lunchmeat and cheddar cheese, cucumbers and apples.
Snack: Homemade pumpkin pancakes with mozzarella string cheese.
Have a great night.
Marty
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Good afternoon and happy Monday. I hope you enjoyed the gorgeous weekend.
This morning we engaged in the pegs and peg boards.
This activity enhances fine motor, hand-eye coordination along with color and shape recognition skills. We can match the colors of the pegs to the boards, we can make a tall towering line with the pegs or we can also just simply fill all of the holes that are available in the peg boards. Whichever way we choose, we love to have fun with this activity.
We then decided to read some stories. Reading always makes us happy. Sometime we like to read to ourselves other times we enjoy a teacher reading to us.
Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with oranges.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded chicken, carrots and apples.
Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Yellow peppers.
Have a fantastic night.
Marty
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Happy Monday!
On Friday in K/PREK1, we read ‘Miss Nelson Is Missing’. Children enjoyed it so much that today, we read the second story in the series, “Miss Nelson Came Back’. There were several times throughout the story where we predicted what would happen next as children hadn’t read the story before!
Before we completed our calendar activity, we discussed punctuation and the difference forms we use.
I read a sentence at a time and children had to say if we should put a period, exclamation point, or question mark at the end. Friends listened to my voice to distinguish between an exclamation point and period. “Oh, your voice is high and excited so it’s an exclamation point!”
K.W6.2b: Punctuation– Recognizing and naming end punctuation.
In PREK2, children took various objects and sorted them into two different groups: magnetic and not magnetic.
Penny and Grady used dominos and colorful counters to create various displays, buildings, and games.
First, Grady and Penny took the dominos and built a tower where they placed only green bears on their structure, creating a game called ‘Tower of Doom’.
Next, they tried to emulate each other as they built the same structures. Conversation was constant as the structures kept falling down. They talked about how to make the structures more stable and strong but since they were building on the table with thin dominos, they had to rebuild many times!
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh apples/pears.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded chicken and butter, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.
Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/carrots.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/9
Happy Friday!
We read, ‘Miss Nelson Is Missing’ in K/PREK1 and afterwards, children got to choose one shape from my hand. They had to decide where the shape went to complete a specific pattern. Once they completed the pattern, they said the pattern aloud: “rectangle, rectangle, oval, triangle, rectangle, rectangle, oval, triangle”.
K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for simple repeating and growing patterns with numbers and shapes.
In PREK2, children used a number line and die to practice addition and subtraction. For example, Sophia rolled a 4 and she moved her piece to the 4. Then, another friend rolled a 2 so they added 2 to the 4 and moved the piece to 6.
There were several conversations today about practicing. We had conversations about practicing to go down the pole in habitrail. We had conversations about practicing our lower case letters. If you want to become good at something, practice is important!
“Teacher Tom, I know how to pump myself on the swings now!”
“I’m happy to hear that.”
“I still have to practice it a lot.”
“That’s how you get good at things.”
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/discovering-way-to-get-really-good-at.html
Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.
Lunch– Turkey and sliced cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM snack– Pretzels, banana, and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.
Have a fantastic weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/6
Good afternoon and Happy Friday!
Miss Tami brought over some long wooden boards from the WF classroom for us to race our cars and trucks down and our friends LOVED the activity!
We can learn hand-eye coordination and imagination skills from this fun activity as well as seeing that not always do our cars/trucks stay on the boards and that sometimes they fall off!
We engaged happily in yet another fun activity that our little guys can obtain a different method of “coloring”. We used our dot markers to make colorful pictures full of circles. Who says we need the old tried and true markers and crayons?!?!?! 
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and oranges.
Lunch: Whole wheat bread with Turkey lunchmeat and sliced cheddar cheese singes, corn and pears.
Snack: Pretzels and Mozzarella string cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Green Beans.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Marty
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Good Afternoon!
We read ‘What Do You Do With An Idea?’ in K/PREK1 group this afternoon. The book focuses on ‘ideas’ and the process people go through to make it a reality. Before we started reading the story, Penny commented, “An idea is something you want to do.”
Throughout the story, the author talked about how one should treat an idea and even used the phrase, “Feed it good food”. Grady asked, “But how can the idea eat food?! It doesn’t have a mouth.”
This brought up a conversation surrounding fiction stories and how the information and even characters in fiction stories aren’t real. Penny said, “You can’t even see an idea. You can see it in your mind.”
After we finished the story, we thought of four different ideas we may try to implement next week if the weather cooperates. Each child got one vote for which idea they liked the best and together we graphed the results.
Looks like we’ll be trying to go on a nature walk!
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)
In PREK2, children used ice cube trays and puff balls to finish several patterns that Miss Kim started.
Rainbows and shields (made for the teachers to protect us..of course!).
Fresh air and movement.
These things consumed our morning, fulfilling our bodies and minds.
Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh strawberries.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken and cheese, fresh cantaloupe/apples, and fresh snap peas/carrots.
PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and almonds.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/snap peas.
Have a wonderful evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/5
Good Afternoon.
Ellie and Caroline worked nicely together strengthening their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills building with the colorful magna-tiles we all love so very much. They are in the next phase of their play after parallel play and this is called Cooperative play
Cooperative play typically ranges around the ages of three and a half to four years of age but Ellie and Caroline seems to have jumped ahead some and are talking through their course of action with one another while building with their tiles. 
Outside time was a little brisk when we first ventured out but the beautiful sunshine was out and helped keep the briskness more tolerable. We are so very happy we are finally able to be outdoors.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and strawberries.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken and shredded cheese, pineapple and strawberries (talk about a very colorful lunch) and carrots.
Snack: Whole grain Triscuit crackers and pumpkin seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Peas.
Have a fantastic night.
Marty
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Good Afternoon.
Please enjoy the pictures of our Wednesday!
Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with honey and banana.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded Colby Jack cheese, peas and apples.
Snack: Blue corn chips with refried beans.
Wee Sprouts: Peppers.
Have a great night.
Marty
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Good Afternoon!
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh strawberries/pineapple.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/pepper.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and fresh strawberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cherry tomatoes.
Have a wonderful evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/4
Good Afternoon! Enjoy some of the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and fresh banana.
Lunch: Turkey and cheese on whole grain flatbread, fresh banana and mixed vegetables.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagels with no nut butter.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a great night!
Rebekah
I am sending the link, however it wasn’t showing the pictures. Hopefully the program we use will fix itself, if not we will try to send them again tomorrow.
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