Happy Sunny Afternoon!

The friends engaged with the plastic blocks this morning.  We climbed on them and sat in them.  Ben moved his arms to let Miss Bekah know he wanted her to sing the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat, so she did.

Miss Bekah had to get a hammer to fix something in the classroom.  Friends were very intrigued by what she was doing and watched.  When I was finished, I went to the basement and brought up some construction hats and plastic tools.  We have hammers, a wrench and a utility set that has a spoon, knife and a magnifying glass.  Friends engaged in using the tools while they were building or to fix toys around the front area of the classroom.

We then bundled up and headed outside to engage in a variety of our favorite activities.

Eleanor is using her elbows and forearms to support to her upper body while playing on her play mat.  Look at that smile while sitting up a little with the support of the boppy pillow.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat macaroni with shredded turkey, fresh oranges and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts;  Fresh green beans.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Happy Friday!

Today we did many activities together with another friend.  Dax and Arthur engaged together driving the vehicles, Ben and Emily sat in the plastic blocks to pretend they were boats, Arthur and Emily built with Magna-Tiles, Ben, Eliza, Hannah and Dax rocked in the rocking chair together.

We then headed into the kitchen to draw with different drawing tools.  Instead of markers, which we love, we used crayons and colored pencils to create our drawings.  We noticed we needed to press a little harder with the drawing tools to make the colors more vibrant.

Arthur and Emily noticed Ben tear his paper, so they wanted a piece of paper to practice tearing into pieces.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Grilled cheese sandwich on whole grain wheat bread, bananas and cucumber slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Mozzarella cheese stick, fresh cucumber slices and strawberries.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Hello Friday!

The Kindergarteners were asked to go around the classroom to find friends who were similar to them. They looked for friends who had the same eye/hair color, had the same favorite food, and favorite toy. They quickly discovered that friends who they don’t normally play with are a lot like themselves.

Gardening season is approaching and we are starting to think about growing things!  Today, several of us worked on a flower process painting to help make our classroom feel like spring.  We were encouraged to look at a book of flower photographs to help us think about flower shapes. Some of us wanted to make up the shape ourselves. This was absolutely great too!  Next, we designed our flower drawing on our poster paper.  We chose from four different textured painting utensils to color our flower.  As the paint dries, we will add more layers of texture and color to our paintings.   

In our loose parts play area we each explored a tray of different materials.  We had one tray of all wood, one of stone, and one of metal.  On our metal tray we had several magnetic pieces to remind us of the special magnetic qualities of some metal objects.  We talked about how each material felt, and how they differed form one another. 

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes w/ PB & bananas

Lunch: Ham and cream cheese roll-ups, cucumbers/carrots, watermelon/bananas

PM Snack: Pretzel sticks & Colby Jack cheese

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers & carrot chips

Link to pictures:  2023-03-24

Enjoy your spring weekend!

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Happy Thursday!

Enjoy the pictures from today.

Breakfast: Oatmeal Squares Cereal & banana

Lunch: Brown rice w/ pork, green beans/cucumbers, & watermelon

PM Snack: Peanuts & raisins

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans & cucumbers

Link to pictures:  2023-03-23

Have a terrific day!

Ms. Kim

Good afternoon on this cloudy day!

This morning we played in different areas of the class with friends or on our own. Arthur and Hannah held hands while walking around the front area. Dax put on some of our dress up clothes and headed to the kitchen to engage in imaginative play.

We made our way to the kitchen for sensory play with play dough. We used different tools like scissors to ‘cut’ our dough into pieces and popsicle sticks to make different ‘treats’. Eliza pressed a cookie cutter into her dough to make a cross.

After sensory play, we went to the front area to build and create with Magna-tiles. Dax stacked square tiles to make one tall tower. Arthur created a rectangular building and Paige helped him finish the top with some triangular tiles.

Eleanor is practicing leaning forward to eventually sit up and enjoys being able to look around to see her friends.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh pear slices.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, red bell pepper, and apple slices.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds and Triscuits crackers.

Wee Sprout: Corn

Have a great evening!

Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-03-23

Hello Parents,

Our Kindergarteners practiced counting by 10’s using our Unifix Cubes. We discovered that 10 groups of 10 equal 100. By counting by 10’s, we are able to add our objects faster compared to counting them individually.

When Daniel was done grouping his cubes, he  laid all 100 of them down to see how long it was compared to his body. Then he wanted to stand them up to see how high it would be from the ground.

Today, in the sensory bin we set up a color mixing water table due to popular demand.  Everyone has been asking about doing something like the Friday green hue activity, so we set that up for further exploration.  The kids started with all the primary colors and mixed them in a variety of jars, bottles, and tubes leaving the opening for a variety of imaginative play ideas!

We arranged a loose parts table to stimulate creative thinking and imaginative play.  Loose parts leave possibilities wide open having no clear objective. They objects and tools can become anything with any purpose. We had a pharmacy, soup, building blocks and two bags became doctors gloves.  This is the kind of creativity loose parts play allows to happen!

Breakfast: Oatmeal & strawberries

Lunch: French toast casserole, carrots/cucumbers, & watermelon

PM Snack: Tortilla chips & hummus

Wee Sprouts: Carrot chips & cucumbers

Link to pictures:  2023-03-22

Have a nice afternoon!

Ms. Kim & Ms. Linsey

Good Afternoon!

This morning we tossed or rolled our ball to Miss Bekah.

We then headed into the kitchen to build with pegs in our pegboards.  We were filling our holes with a variety of colored pegs and some of us stacked them to make towers.

Several of us then engaged in reading books with Miss Tina.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh strawberries, broccoli and whole grain wheat bread toasted with peanut butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus on whole grain wheat tortillas.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

This morning we painted using sponges with Miss Tina.  The sponges we used were; a car, elephant, crescent, rocket ship, cow and rabbit.  We used a variety of bright colors to create beautiful paintings or stamp the objects onto our papers.

We then headed outside to engage in a variety of our favorite activities.

Eleanor has found her fist and put it in her mouth while smiling.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Corn Chex cereal and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Refried beans and shredded cheddar cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh cucumber and pear slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-03-21

Good Afternoon!

Today, we explored a famous earth works artist by the name of Andrew Goldsworthy.  Everyone has been very interested in building with rocks in the sensory bin, so we offered this book at the round table along with trays of sand, and a bowl of smooth pebbles of different sizes.  Several of us made round or spiraled shapes with the stones like some we saw in the book.  Another found images of Cairns (stone sculptures) and worked to reproduce them.  We talked about finding flat stones stacking from large to small and carefully balancing them.  One friend had the idea to use the kinetic sand to help the rocks stick together better!

A number of us created mixed media paintings in the art center.  Remembering our crayon and paint experiment, we tried oil pastels with water color over the top.  We loved the interesting effects made by this mixed media technique! 

Our older friends worked on stringing our egg carton spring flowers using yarn and a yarn needle.  We learned how to poke the needle through pushing it toward the counter so not to poke ourselves.  We hung our finished strings of flowers in the art center for all of us to enjoy.

Breakfast: Cheerios & oranges

Lunch: Grilled cheese on whole wheat bread, peppers/carrots, & pineapple

PM Snack: English Muffins w/ PB

Wee Sprouts: Baby carrots & peppers

Link to pictures:  2023-03-21

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Happy 2nd birthday Hannah!  We are so happy we were able to celebrate with you.  Thank you so much for the special birthday treat.  We loved it!

Since today is Hannah’s birthday, Miss Bekah got out the stacking birthday cake.  We all worked together to stack it into a big cake.  While we were stacking we worked on our number recognition, counting skills and patterning.

During our outside time we engaged with some added plates and pots for our sand to go into in the sandbox.  Some of us also sat or rode on the dump truck.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat English Muffin with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat elbow macaroni with butter and shredded pork, fresh cantaloupe and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Fresh fruit kabobs (blueberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberry and watermelon) and fruit dip (Hannah’s birthday treat) and 1/2 mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprout:  Carrot chips.

Have a marvelous evening!

Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-03-20