Welcome back!  We hope you a fabulous summer vacation.

We have a special announcement.  Miss Marty is a Nana!  She became a Nana over our vacation to a precious little girl, Sierra Maria Lopez.  She was born Friday, July 6th. Congratulations Miss Marty! I am sure she will have many more pictures to share with us!

Our friends were excited to come back and see all of their friends and teachers.  We started our morning off by getting back into our daily routine by reading stories, playing with the barn and animals, fire station and cooking up some food in housekeeping.

A friend requested play dough this morning!  What a fabulous sensory experience for our little hands.  We were busy squishing it in our hands, using rolling pins and hammers to roll it out bigger and flatten it, a craft stick to cut it and making bears using a variety of different sizes of cookie cutters.

During outside time, the art table was available for us to express our creativity on our paper with our markers. We used a variety of different colors to make beautiful and colorful masterpieces.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat toast with Sunflower butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded chicken, fresh PPC banana and peas.

Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Peas.

We hope you had a great Monday!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuljLVHUC0R-Sro3PQhXA

Happy Rainy Wednesday!

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Pajama day was a success and our friends loved being all comfy, cozy! It was the perfect day for pajama’s, with all the yucky rain coming down! We engaged ourselves quite nicely in many activities around the classroom today!

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with PPC banana.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain bagel with butter, peas/carrots and PPC pears.

Snack: Pretzels and mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a wonderful time off and we will see you all on July 9th.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

An art activity was made available for children that involved shaving cream along with red and blue paint. First, children took shaving cream and spread it around their paper before adding drops of blue and red paint. They took a cotton swab and mixed the two colors of paint together. One child commented, “Mine’s turning purple!”. This brought up a conversation about what happens when we mix two colors together.

The rest of our morning was full of enriching play experiences. Sophia and one of her peers set the table and served lunch. They talked about the different food that was being served as well as using their one to one correspondence skills as they set each place setting.

Lucy and Anna got to work on making invitations to a pretend party they were having. They both worked together to address the invitations by writing each child’s and teacher’s name.

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and cinnamon with PPC banana.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat bread, PPC banana/pears, and PPC snap peas/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and PPC banana.

Wee Sprout– PPC snap peas/cherry tomatoes.

Have a fantastic summer vacation!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/27

Good Afternoon!

**Tomorrow is PAJAMA DAY!**

**A housekeeping request before we start vacation on Thursday: please make sure that your child’s cubbie is cleaned out as well as their art cubbie. Thanks!

The welcome activity that children explored involved unifix cubes. Children either took unifix cubes and filled up the tray ranging from 1 unifix cube on the left hand side to 10 unifix cubes on the right hand side or completed color patterns in either of the unifix books.

When children chose to fill up the unifix tray, they compared and contrasted the colors that they chose as well as the number of cubes they saw in each column.

We’ve been using water colors at the art easel lately instead of tempera paint. Children are LOVING the way that their paintings are turning out. We filled every single jar space with a different color so our paintings were really colorful. As Lucy was painting, she took ten steps back to look at her painting. She stood and observed her painting for a couple seconds before walking back to her painting and continuing on.

“We’re going on a bug hunt, we’re going to catch a big one..” (or twenty worms..which we did today).

Breakfast– Kix with PPC pears.

Lunch– Refried beans on whole wheat tortilla, PPC grapes, and PPC cherry tomatoes/snap peas.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese and block cheese.

Wee Sprout– PPC cherry tomatoes/snap peas.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/26

Good Afternoon! We hope you’re having a great day.

“Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” ~Unknown Author

What an exciting morning for the Wee Wee’s. Today we went on a wagon ride around the neighborhood and saw many things. Stop signs, dogs, railroad tracks, big trucks and overall… nature! The wind was blowing a very light breeze that felt wonderful on our faces as we strolled along. It’s always fun and exciting to be able to get out of our natural environment and explore new things! We all had a fabulous time.

Breakfast: Whole grain cheerios and PPC pears.

Lunch: Whole what/grain tortillas with refried beans, carrots and PPC banana.

Snack: Whole grain bagels with cinnamon and raisins with butter and strawberries.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a fantastic evening,

Marty.

LINK TO PICTURES:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuljLNpYB3R5N_4Lrklcw

Good Afternoon!

Enjoy a few pictures from our Monday!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and craisins.

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

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with PPC mangos.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/PPC cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/25

Good afternoon. I hope you all had a pleasant weekend!

Just a reminder, we will be having Pajama Day on our last day before our summer vacation on Wednesday, June 27th. Thank you!

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere”.”

                                                                                                   ~Albert Einstein

Today friends thought it would a great day to put on the dress up hats. We LOVE to wear hats around the classroom and outside. Imaginations hard at work. 

We also enjoyed some sensory fun! Finger/hand painting is always full of excitement and joy! Some of our friends were all in, while others weren’t as sure! We added in a small sponge on a stick that was just right for our friends that didn’t want to use their fingers/hands.

Breakfast: Whole wheat butter toast with cinnamon and PPC  banana.

Lunch: Whole grain pasta with shredded beef, corn and PPC mango slices.

Snack: Homemade banana muffins and mozzarella string cheese.

Have a fantastic evening!
Marty

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Happy Friday!

**Next Wednesday (June 27th) will be a pajama day!

Several manipulatives were used at the light table. Lucy and Anna separated their colorful gems by color while Ruby sorted hers into two groups: squares and triangles. Afterwards, we got out shapes that Franklin used to make a bicycle. One of Franklins peers also made a bicycle but then took one wheel off so we talked about what a unicycle is.

Our older children wanted to put on a couple different plays so we used the parachute as a curtain for them to get ready. Their younger peers sat on wooden boards as they watched the two different plays.

Breakfast– Homemade oatmeal pancakes with fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Refried beans and shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, PPC banana, and PPC broccoli.

PM snack– Block cheese and goldfish.

Wee Sprout– PPC broccoli.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/22

Link to 6/21 pictures: WF 6/21

Happy Friday! Rain Rain Go AWAY!!!! That’s been our motto for today.

“Every child deserves a champion- an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be.” ~Rita Pierson

Today Miss Rebekah made us some fun sensory bags. She filled the baggies with paint and shaving cream. Friends had a splendid time squishing, shaking and pounding on them. We talked about how the baggies felt and what the color was in their specific bag. What a great way to keep our rain blues away. 

We then had fun out in the main area of the classroom doing whatever our little hearts desired until lunch and nap time. What a great day!

Breakfast: Whole grain bagels with cream cheese.

Lunch: Whole grain tortillas with refried beans and shredded cheese, carrots and PPC banana.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers with Mozzarella cheese sticks.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

“Every child is gifted, they just unwrap their packages at different times.” ~Unknown

Next Wednesday will be the last day of our week before our summer vacation closing time. We would like to get in the spirit of being comfy, cozy! If you would like to have your child wear his or her favorite pajamas, that would be fantastic!

Today we had a surprise visitor (Annual State inspection) and Daniel thought it would be fun to “hide” from him.  He was acting a tad shy, but still wanted to see what the visitor was up too all while not allowing the visitor to fully see him.

The dramatic play center was “cooking” this morning. Friends were making tea and baking yummy bread to fill our tummies. What great imaginations! According to Stay At Home Educator, “Preschoolers are known for acting with impulse, so dramatic play is a great stepping stone for learning to self-regulate their emotions and actions.” Our friends LOVE to be imaginative.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and PPC banana.

Lunch: Whole grain rice with shredded pork, peas and PPC watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain pretzels and mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a wonderful night!

Marty

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