WWF 11/10/2020

Good Afternoon.

This morning we welcomed Miss Bekah back from her day off yesterday with, “Bekahhhh” and big smiles Smile 

Friends engaged in a fun art activity today! Dot painting is always a fun activity for us to outside of our regular painting and or coloring. We can learn our colors and how to softly stamp our papers with these special style markers.

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Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain tortilla with shredded cheese, carrots and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with butter.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great evening.

Marty

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WF, 11/9/2020

Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our Monday!

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Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/9

WF, 11/6/2020

Happy Friday!

In K group, we read, ‘What Happened to Patrick’s Dinosaurs?’ which is a fiction story about a brothers theory of what really happened to the dinosaurs. We thought their theories were very funny! (think spaceships!)

Afterwards, each friend had to the opportunity to add a singular or plural noun to the missing space in a sentence. For example, Z had to fill in the sentence, ‘I have one ________ at my house.’ She filled it in with baby sister creating the sentence, ‘I have one baby sister at my house.’

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g., dog/dogs, cat/cats).

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In PREK2, children worked with laminated pumpkins with various numbers of each pumpkin. They had to match the number to the correct number of orange gems!

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Friends took turns this morning exploring the light table and various manipulatives. Mostly, friends took the toys and sorted them by color into groups around the light table.

The sensory table was made available as friends moved colored rice around the bin. Children used scoopers and different utensils to fill and dump the rice.

“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them”

-Dr. Maria Montessori

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Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham and cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears/oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Pretzels and cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/6

WWF 11/06/2020

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

Friends enjoyed engaging in the indoor and outdoor dramatic play centers today.

They were cooking up some good foods for their friends and teachers to gobble up. 

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Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon and pears.

Lunch: Whole grain tortillas, turkey lunchmeat, snap peas and strawberries.

Snack: Whole grain goldfish cheese crackers and block cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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WF, 11/5/2020

Good Afternoon!

In K group, we read, ‘My Apron’ by Eric Carle. Before we started reading, I read a sentence that was on the front cover stating that the story was from Eric’s real life and immediately, friends shared, “That’s a non fiction story!”

As we finished up the story, we moved into singular and plural nouns. I read the sentence aloud with two different options for the noun. For example:

“I have two dog/dogs at home.”

Children worked together to determine which word made sense. We chose the word that completed the sentence and tapped it in the blank spot.

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns- Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g., dog/dogs, cat/cats).

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In PREK2, children drew a line matching an illustration to the correct number. For instance, Evie drew a line from an illustration with four circles to the number 4.

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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

-George Bernard Shaw

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Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh watermelon, and fresh broccoli/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and roasted pepitas.

Wee Sprout– Fresh broccoli/pepper.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/5

WWF 11/05/2020

Good Afternoon.

Today while playing outdoors several friends worked on strengthening their gross motor skills by doing some climbing.

Climbing in this particular area takes a little more effort and stability as it is an uphill climb and on large rocks.

Our friends ROCKED it out, and had so much fun reaching their goal…the top of the platform to get to the slides to slide down.

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Nesta then had fun engaging in a little more gross motor activity. Running around the circular path with her sister and another Wee Friend’er! Smile What a GREAT day!

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Breakfast: Whole grain Kix with banana.

Lunch:Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, corn and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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WWF 11/04/2020

Good Afternoon.

What another beautiful day! We got outside a tad earlier than our norm today to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Smile 

Nesta climbed all the way to the top of the climbing house and was very proud of her accomplishment. This is a great  activity to enhance our gross motor skills and our confidence level.

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Baby Paige was awake during our outside time and got to enjoy it as well.

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Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.

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

Snack: Whole wheat crackers and pumpkin seeds. (Fresh from our pumpkin)

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a lovely evening.

Marty

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WF, 11/4/2020

Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

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Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with fresh pears.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh broccoli/peppers.

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh broccoli/cauliflower/red pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/4

WF, 11/3/2020

Good Afternoon!

Happy birthday, Cassie! We celebrated Cassie’s 30th birthday today! We hope you had a fantastic day, Cass!

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We read, Duck for President, in K group today! We’ve been chatted about voting and the importance of it the past two days. Throughout the story, Duck went from running for the head of the farm to Governor to President!

Before heading to the journal table, each friend took their own counting sheet and counted to 100 by 10’s. They point to each number and said it aloud.

K.NS.1: Count to at least 100 by ones and tens.

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In PREK2, children had the opportunity to use a dry erase marker to fill in missing uppercase letters.

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

-Abraham Lincoln

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We took the time this morning to vote. Children were told their choices, given a writing utensil, and place their ballot in the ballot box. Just like adults do.

We counted the ballots and in our class, Joe Biden was elected President.

After voting between Clifford and Duck yesterday to prepare us for today, friends still wanted to vote for Clifford! Smile

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A glimpse into the rest of our day!

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Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh apples, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Homemade banana bread and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/3