Good Afternoon!

Our MACK focus this week is:

Children will learn about kindness and the power of positive words.

In K/PREK1, we read ‘Down the Road’ which focuses on the main character, Hetty, as well as her two parents. Before we started reading the book, we looked at the front cover and came up with different ideas on what the book could be about since no one had read it before!

After several friends shared their theories, we dove into the book.

Hetty, the main character, was never able to do chores by herself until one day, she was told she could go buy eggs by herself for scrambled eggs the next morning. Once she purchased a dozen eggs, she was walking home. She wasn’t paying attention to where she was walking and the author mentioned a big rock coming up on the path.

Children observed the picture and shared their predictions on what could happen to Hetty and the eggs that were in her basket. Hetty ended up falling and the eggs fell to the ground but there were zero cracks on the eggs!

When she was almost home, Hetty noticed a big, red apple tree so she stopped to pick a few apples. As you can see in the picture, the egg basket started to tip so again, we used the picture as well as our knowledge of Hetty to determine what may happen next.

This time, the eggs weren’t so lucky!

Children predicted several events within the story and once we found out what actually happened, we heard, “That’s what I thought would happen!” several times. We loved the anticipation of not knowing what was going to happen until we turned the page.

K.RL.2.4: Make predictions about what will happen in a story.

Friends came to the art table to explore painting with a different utensil. Today’s focus was manipulating and moving paint with gift cards! We saw different strategies for how to move the paint around the paper.

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”

-Kate DiCamillo

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh pears.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla, fresh apples, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagels with butter and cheddar cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/25

Good Afternoon.

Today we enjoyed a sensory and fine motor activity.

Playdoh is always a very fun and exciting activity we all seem to love! We enjoyed using pipe cleaners as an added bonus to our regular playdoh toys.

We then engaged in some movement and music!

Miss Rebekah found some fun interactive songs for us to join along in as well as some regular songs that we could just dance too.  

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, corn and pears.

Snack: Whole grain bagels with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a nice evening.

Marty.

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Good Afternoon and happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend.

Even though the sunshine wasn’t present today the temps were nice enough for us to enjoy some much needed outside play! We all had a blast and enjoyed every second.

At lunch today we had a “P” lunch. Pasta, Peas and Pears. We all worked on sounding out the letter P and thought of different words that also begin with the letter P.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with sweet pea butter and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and black beans, peas and pears.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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Happy Monday,

Enjoy a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole wheat English muffins w/ PB & bananas

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta w/ beans, carrots, bananas & strawberries

PM Snack: Yogurt & granola

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots

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Have a great rest of your day!

Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

Yesterday in K/PREK1 group, we read a story titled ‘Be Kind’ which is a part of our MACK curriculum book collection. Towards the end of the story, there’s a picture of a service member coming home with an American flag draped over his back and shoulders. Several friends inquired about this and why the picture was illustrated this way.

Various questions and statements were made:

“What’s that blanket that he has on his back?”

“Is that Indiana’s flag too?”

“What are other flags for other places?”

…and when I pulled up the American flag and explained why there were 50 stars and 13 strips, many friends asked, “What’s a colony?”

SO:

Today, we answered those questions. First, we talked about what a colony is. We used the map of the United States as a reference and noticed that all of the colonies were together, along the Atlantic Ocean. Many friends thought it was unfair that Indiana wasn’t included .

Then, we identified just a few flags from other countries. Grady was able to identify the flag from France and Canada, stating, “My grandparents live in Canada!”

You never know what can come from a new and exciting story!

Our week ended on a fun and inspiring note—see everyone tomorrow for conferences!

Breakfast– Whole grain Cheerios with fresh blackberries.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh organic spinach/cucumber salad.

PM snack– Our newly five year old friend brought in homemade chocolate covered strawberries and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh peppers/cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/20

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the pictures of our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with banana.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, mixed veggies and apples.

Snack: Pumpkin seeds and Whole wheat Triscuit crackers.

Have a wonderful night! We will see you all at conferences tomorrow.  

Marty

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Good Afternoon. What a beautiful sunny day.

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE CLOSED FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2020 FOR OUR ANNUAL PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. WE LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING WITH YOU ALL.

Boy, did we luck out today?!?! We were able to see a really cool digger truck doing all kinds of neat stuff to the neighbors sidewalk. It was absolutely fascinating to us all. When they got all done digging, we saw they made a huge hole in the sidewalk. We were all so very amazed seeing that huge hole!!

We then were even more excited when teachers got out the trampoline. We had a wonderful time getting our bodies in motion.  

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with raw honey and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat butter toast, peas and apples and clementine’s.

Snack: Refried beans and blue corn chips.

Wee Sprouts: Peppers.

Have a glorious evening.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh blackberries.

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

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/19

Good Afternoon!

Chloe picked ‘Lady and the Tramp’ to read during K/PREK1 which is a story that we hadn’t read in group before! Before I started reading, we observed the front cover to look at the illustration to see what the story may be about.

Throughout they story, a few friends shared what comes next since they had read the story before. This is a simple way to evaluate children’s comprehension. For example, if your child has a favorite book at home, ask them some questions before or during your reading at night. A few suggestions would be:

“Can you tell me a little about the characters that are in this story that you remember?”

“After the aunt kicks Lady out of the house, can you tell me what happens next?”

We completed calendar before heading to the art table to journal. During our calendar session today, we focused on several aspects including the month and day of the week.

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 ‘Born to Read’ with Miss Kim. Afterwards, they identified four different events that occurred and worked together to place them in the correct order in which they happened.

Magnatile creations sprung up left and right as children worked together or by themselves to build a variety of towers, houses, and zoos. The magnets played a huge part of their experience because as Franklin was building, he didn’t want his triangles to connect to one another but they kept coming together as the magnets were too strong. He had to use trial and error to see how he could complete his creation without the magnets being attracted to each other.

We’ve seen a variety of children frequent the art table this week. Our older friends have taken on the role as ‘teacher’ during this time as children are asking one another about drawings, letters, and sounds that they have questions on.

Multi-age classrooms have numerous benefits but one that is evident here, every single day, is that, “Older children fell to their knees to help the younger ones. Younger children stepped up their game, stretching themselves to join the play of the older kids.”

We see this all the time. We have three year old’s whose play becomes elevated because their playing with older peers and we see the flip side: older friends who up their game in terms of being helpers and teachers to their younger friends. It truly is a learning experience.

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/clearly-as-it-should-be.html

Breakfast– Oatmeal Squares and fresh blackberries.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a fantastic evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/18

Good Afternoon.

Today we engaged in a sensory activity that we all loved and spent quite a bit of our time with. We had small cups and marker caps to place in various colors of paint to then stamp onto our paper.

This activity also helps us with our fine motor, hand-eye coordination and color recognition skills.

Later in our day we then sat down in a line on the reading steps to read stories to our friends and babies.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

Lunch: Toasted turkey and cheddar cheese sandwiches, corn and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese/ peanut butter. (Kids choice)

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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