Happy Monday!

One of our FAB’s for the upcoming week is identifying important elements of text: one of our favorites! We are always discussing characters that we identify with or events within books that catch our attention.

We read, ‘Ladybug Girl and the Rescue Dogs’ in K/PREK1 group. We talked about the characters, setting, and three things that happened in the story. I asked, “What’s something that happened at the beginning/middle/end of the story?” Children were able to pick out events fairly easily and shared them right away!

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings, or events).

In PREK2, they read, ‘There’s Something In My Attic’. Today, they focused on one aspect of the text: characters!

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole wheat bread with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh pears, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumbers/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/27

Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

This morning friends got right into their play after breakfast! A friend asked for the permanence boxes. This is an activity that enhances our hand-eye coordination skills. We place the small balls and coins into their slots so we can see where they end up. We love it when the balls roll back to us.  

 

Another friend used her gross motor climbing skills to climb up the ladder and look out of the window.

We then headed into the kitchen area to utilize our fine motor skills. We manipulated with the pegs and their boards. This activity also allows us to use our color recognition and our hand-eye coordination skills. Everyone enjoyed this activity.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded beef, peas/cucumbers and apples.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers and peas.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.I hope you all had a great week.

Today we welcomed an IUSB Early Childhood student to observe our classroom for the next ten weeks as part of receiving her degree. Anna really did well with our littles and they really enjoyed her and her enthusiasm with them. She will be visiting the classroom on Friday’s from 8:15 am to 10:15 am. We are excited to have her!

This morning a friend was in the mood for showing us moves like an acrobat.

We FINALLY got to go outside today and we LOVED every second. Just look at those happy faces.  

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, cooked carrots and pineapple.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and block mild cheddar cheese cubes.

Wee Sprouts: Cooked carrots.

Have a lovely weekend.

Marty

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Happy Sunny Friday!

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes w/ PB & Pears

Lunch: Hummus on whole wheat bread, fresh cucumbers/carrots, & apple slices

PM Snack: Goldfish & string cheese

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers & carrot sticks

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Have a gorgeous afternoon and weekend!

Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

We hit the fourth and final genre during K/PREK1 group today: poetry!

Each member got to choose one poem from the book. We noticed quickly that the poems use a lot of rhyming words! A few children even helped me fill in the blank of a poem with the correct rhyming word.

Before friends rolled up their mats to journal, they had to answer a question specific to them. I gave each child three words that were similar and they had to come up with a fourth word that fit that category. For example, I gave Mack the words pig, horse, and chicken. He said “Those are farm animals! My word is cow!”

K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairy-tales, poems).

In PREK2, children had to observe four square picture tiles. They had to choose which square tile didn’t match the rest.

Evie and a few older friends used the sunflower seeds that we removed from the sunflower head yesterday to make animal feeders for outside! Friends used a toilet paper roll, peanut butter, butter knife, and sunflower seeds to make the feeder.

We’re anxious to see what animals visit our feeder!

The rest of our morning was full of stories, puzzles, and art work—the perfect trifecta for this rainy and cold day.

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh pineapple, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/23

Good Afternoon.

This morning we listened to several songs of all different kinds. We listened to kids music on Pandora, we listened to Fall/Halloween songs and we also listened too and acted out the body movements to, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. We sure do love our Dance parties.  

While some of our friends decided to keep dancing others of us went into the kitchen area to engage in the moon sand. We scooped, poured and simply just let our hands feel the silky soft texture of the sand.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and shredded chicken, corn and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat thin crackers with Pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a lovely night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon and happy first day of Fall.

Now that we will be getting into chillier days, can you please bring in extra warm clothes for your child’s bathroom cubby. Thank you!

We  didn’t let let the rain get us down today, we did many fun things that kept us having a great morning. First we had a dance party, we painted at the easel, we crawled through a tunnel and read stories.

Our dance party was full of body movement and energy. 

While painting at the easel, we used fall colors such as red, orange green and yellow to make our creations. They turned out wonderful.

Then last but not least our fun time engaging with the tunnel. With this activity we can learn a few different life skills. One, we need to take turns so no-one get hurt, we need to be patient while our friends are taking their turn, and we need to follow simple directions on which way our bodies should be going through the tunnel. We all did a great job and had a ton of fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat toast with peanut butter, squash, and apples.

Snack: Hummus on whole wheat flatbread

Wee Sprouts: peas.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and bananas.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/22

Good Afternoon!

Evie and Mack completed their sign in that revolved around comparison words. They had to identify which group of items had the most/least as well as use gems to answer comparison questions. I had eight gems in my hand. I asked the following questions:

“Take some of the gems and put them in your hand.”

“Take all of the gems and put them into your hand.”

“Now, there should be none in your hand.” (to which they quickly gave me all of the gems back!)

K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison, including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than.

We used the same gems in K/PREK1 group but in a slightly different way. I put a specific number of gems in the center of the group for each child. They had to answer my question using gems as their manipulative. For example, I put 8 gems in the center of the group. I told Evie to create her own group that had more than 8 gems. She chose to make a gem group of 9 gems.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairy-tales, poems).

K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison, including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than.

In PREK2, children used the Montessori beads to explore numbers as well as ways to compare. They discussed more than and less than as well as length.

We had a big sunflower in our garden area. Miss Annastecia took the sunflower head off and friends were excited to inspect it. A squirrel friend in the backyard has been eating the seeds out of it so we wanted to take it down now so we still had time to look at it!

We came inside shortly before lunch which gave Mack and Daniel more than enough time to transform into…Ninja’s!

They created covers for their masks and easily switched identities!

Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh pears.

Lunch– Refried beans and melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with peanut butter and Colby Jack sliced cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/21

Good Afternoon.

Today we went outdoors a little earlier than our normal to beat the rain showers. We had a great time climbing, playing ball, running and relaxing looking at the greenery around the play area.

When we came in we were happy to see the foam alphabet letters. We made our very long letter train and enjoyed helping Miss Bekah place them on the floor where they needed to go. After, we listened to the ABC song.

Breakfast: Whole  wheat butter toast with cinnamon and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with refried beans, corn and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat English Muffins with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Yellow Pepper.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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