Good Afternoon.

Today we expanded our imaginations from the normal climbing in and on the colorful big blocks and we made a train.  Our friend Caroline said, “Let’s all sit in our blocks and go chooo chooo!”

Breakfast: Whole wheat oatmeal pancakes and Puffins cereal with apples.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, peas and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat Triscuit crackers and pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a fantastic night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

Today we had a friend that has begun a new stage in their learning development. This is a very exciting stage not only for us as teachers but for our children as well. They are always excited to tell us what they have drawn and have us write it down on their paper.

This stage of development usually begins around the age of 2 3/4 to 3 years of age. According to zerotothree.org,  “Once your child has begun to purposefully draw images, he/she has mastered  symbolic thinking.” 

Our friend who draw this wonderful picture said it was “ A smiley face!”

Thank you to Miss Tami who bought us some very colorful and fun rice for our sensory bin.

We utilized our hand-eye coordination skills by scooping the rice from one of the small plastic eastern eggs to a cup. We also vrrrromed our cars through the rice mixture. We all had a great time and absolutely loved our sensory experience.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with honey and banana.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat/grain English muffins with butter, corn and apples. 

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh red peppers.

Have a wonderful night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy a quick snapshot of our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh cantaloupe.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh banana/cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/snap peas.

PM snack– Blue corn chips & hummus

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/15

Good Afternoon!

After reading one of our library books that we checked out today, we continued to add to our syllable list. Each member of K/PREK1 shared a word with the group, then worked to figure out how many syllables that word has. Children either use the ‘hand under the chin’ method or the ‘clapping’ method. We’re becoming very comfortable with counting syllables, even with tricky/long words.

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

In PREK2, each child got three cards. They took turns turning over their cards, identifying the number on each card. Once they figured out the number, they matched their card to the correct number of wooden circles. At the end, they added all of their wooden circles together!

We took advantage of our somewhat decent weather and headed to the library this morning. K/PREK1 friends had the entire children’s section of the library to ourselves as we each got to choose up to three books that piqued our interest.

Before we started searching, we talked about how the librarian categorizes books. I pointed out where the first letter of the authors last names were which is how we find books. Children wanted to know where Robert Munsch stories were so we looked for the M group and started our search.

I pointed our that there were two sections that we could look through: fiction and nonfiction. Children quickly shared what each section meant and then they were off!

Once children found their books that they wanted to check out, they sat quickly with their peers looking at their books.

Penny asked what happens to the books when we’re done and I told her that eventually, we’ll have to return them which prompted the question, “So that means we can come back soon?!”

The rest of our morning was full of alphabet soup (prompting recognition of letters), painting at the easel, and tons of individualized art table work.

Breakfast– Corn Flakes with fresh pears.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with oats and honey granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/14

Good Afternoon.

Today we dabbled in a fine motor activity that our friends absolutely love!

We have several different peg board shapes available to us that we can place our pegs into their holes. This activity is not only fine motor its also helps us build on our color recognition as well as help improve our hand-eye coordination skills.

We also had so much fun on the swing. Some of us love to lie down on the swing while others prefer to sit up. Either way, we have a blast!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Hot whole wheat flatbread with shredded  mozzarella cheese, orange peppers and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with butter.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful night!

Marty

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Happy Monday!

We read, ‘If Rocks Could Sing’ in K/PREK1 which is a book based on the letters of the alphabet, but in rock form! Each page had a rock formed as a different letter. For instance, the letter ‘C” was for ‘couch potato’! Children used their knowledge of letter sounds and the pictures that they observed to guess at some of the letter pictures.

We used a part of the kindergarteners sign in for the first activity. During sign in, the kindergarteners had to count the number of stickers on each note card and write the number on the back. During group, each K friend got one note card back, so four total. We worked together to place them in order from smallest to biggest.

Before we rolled up our mats to head to the journal table, each child gave me one word. Once they gave me the word, they had to tell me what group it belonged to: 1 syllable, 2 syllables, or 3 syllables. Each day this week, we’ll keep adding to the list by placing new words on the chart!

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

K.NS.4: Perform one-to-one correspondence tasks.

In PREK2, alphabet was on the menu! Each child pulled out three uppercase letters. Once they pulled them out, they identified which letter they were about to place into the bowl!

Miss Kim had several helpers at the island this morning as two batches of slime were made! Children helped measure different ingredients to make the finished product.

As you can tell by the look on some of our faces, we were a little hesitant at first but quickly warmed up to the different texture that we felt on our hands and in-between our fingers.

Breakfast– Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded beef, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack–  Whole wheat english muffins with peanut butter and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas.

Have a wonderful evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/13

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

Today we all were pretty excited about painting!

We used small brushes and sponges on sticks to make our creations. We talked about what we were making and what colors we were going to use for our paintings. One of our friends said he made a “purple school bus.” What a GREAT imagination.

We also enjoyed (as we like to call them) teacher stories. These are books that are soft cover or hard back books with ripable pages.

The kids just LOVE when teachers read these stories. We have many favorites to choose from.

Breakfast: Whole grain English Muffins with peanut butter and or cream cheese and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef, sweet potatoes, and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers and cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a nice night.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

We rounded out the week in K/PREK1 with matching the community helper to descriptions of each helper. I read clues aloud  and children had to match the descriptive clues. For most of the helpers, I didn’t even finish the sentence before children were saying the correct helper aloud!

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

In PREK2, children were able to pick a community helper. After their community helper was identified, they matched it to the tool that they use to do their job.

The round table was bustling with different activities, initiated by children throughout the morning. The welcome activity was a collection of wooden materials to build various tracks and creations. Friends asked for puzzles and unifix cubes which lead to patterns and one to one correspondence work.

Scrap cardboard was used at the art table as children painted it different colors. Next week, we’ll continue to extend this art experience.

“You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.”

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh strawberries/banana.

Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups, whole wheat bread, fresh strawberries/pears, and fresh cucumber/peppers.

PM snack– Goldfish and mozzarella cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/peppers.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/10

Good Afternoon and happy Friday!

Today we engaged in a multi-learning activity that was so much for us!

Math, Science, sensory, hand-eye coordination and color recognition were all apart of making playdoh from scratch!

We were all apart in measuring, pouring and stirring the soft dough. We all chose different colors of food coloring  for our playdoh color to be, so we added them all in the mixture to see what color we would get. We were hoping for rainbow… but that didn’t quite happen, we got a grey color instead. Teachers decided to add more blue to the mixture for a more fun and vibrant color. The kids were VERY happy with the finished product!

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and banana.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with turkey lunchmeat, cooked carrots and apples.

Snack: Pretzels and Cheddar cheese cubes.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes and snap peas.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

We’ve been discussing rules that we follow here at school as well as rules children follow at home during our K/PREK1 time this week. After we dove into the relationship of Frog and Toad, we made a list of rules for both school and home as well as any rules that apply to both places. Grady commented, “Well my rule about running is a little different at home. We can run in the basement and living room but we can’t do that at school!”

Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.

The welcome activity opened the door for children to do a variety of things with the unifix cubes. Mack filled the tray with cubes ranging from one to ten while Grady made two long lines of cubes: one green and one yellow and then added the two together.

The art table and outside time were full of free expression, detailed and thought out creations, and tons of smiles.

Breakfast– Whole grain Cheerios with fresh raspberries.

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

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and walnuts.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cherry tomato.

Have a wonderful evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/9