Happy Birthday, Lisa! Today Lisa turns 29!

Monday Highlights!

• Since the Blue Bus didn’t come today, we created our own tumbling experience for Wee Friends! With a message board, we found out what our friends do on their Blue Bus and then we got to our workout!
• Life Skills at work! Friends work hard from everything to picking up toys, clearing their lunch plates and dropping them into the dishwasher to being a page turner. We learn how to share our physical space and sometimes sing “My Space” to remind ourselves.
• Math FAB K.2.1: Model addition by joining sets of objects

Wee Sprouts: Broccoli. Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and bananas. Lunch: Sloppy Joes, corn and pineapple. Snack: Birthday cupcakes and bananas.

Enjoy your day.

Happy Friday!

Here are a few pictures that were taken throughout the day.

For breakfast, children had Chex and raisins. AM snack was peas. Lunch consisted of scalloped potatoes with ham and cheese, banana, and corn. PM snack was rice cake with soy butter and oranges.

Hope everyone has a terrific weekend!

-Mindy

This week we celebrated Leo’s arrival, Marta’s return, pirate voyages, running down the Yellow Brick Road to Oz, visiting with parents, first time name and letter writing, sunshine and green grass sightings, poops in the potty, Thumbelina, friends helping friends and reading aloud to them, and hearts, hearts and more hearts.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumber slices. Breakfast: Whole wheat toast and bananas. Lunch: Baked potatoes with ham and cheese, peas and pear slices. Snack: Co-Jack cheese and pears.

Have a terrific weekend!

Happy Thursday and Valentines Day!

Friends started off their day with gross motor work. A few of our favorite areas include the ladder and the slide. Between climbing and running, our body always gets a workout when we’re on the habitrail!

The reading area was packed this morning!

Music was turned on and the shakers were brought out for children to use.

A surprise came for Ms. Mindy today. A four person quartet came to sing! Friends loved listening to the special singing. We were so attentive!

We did such a good job listening and enjoyed listening to the music.

It was good entertainment!

Miss Mindy took her rose around for the kids to smell! Emma thought it was so pretty that she wanted to eat it! We talked about smelling the rose with our noses.

Today was a happy, smiley day!

As Zoey was laying down for her nap, Emma said, “Shhh..baby.”

For breakfast, children had whole wheat bagel with cinnamon and pears. AM snack was peas. Lunch consisted of heart shaped english muffin pizzas, mixed vegetables, and apple/banana. PM snack was hard boiled eggs and graham crackers.

Have a great night and Happy Valentines Day!!

-Mindy

Today we looked around the classroom to see what LOVE looks like.  Here’s what we found…

Breakfast was whole wheat toast and bananas.  Lunch was heart shaped whole wheat muffin pizzas, mixed vegetables and fresh orange slices.  Snack will be cheese sticks and Tami’s home-made chewy granola bars with a touch of white chocolate to celebrate the holiday<3

 

Happy

Valentine’s

Day!

Tami

 

Lea: “Halloween and my Mom.” and “Yes, Ben can play with me!”

Marina: “Oranges!”

Ada: “Valentines and my Dad.”

Elliott: “All things.”

Jane to Ada: “I’ll save it for you.”

Macy: “Hearts.”

Jane: “My family.”

Finn: “Pirates.”

Finn to Jane: “You should be part of our group.”

Ellie: “Something you like to do.”

Max: “Going down the fire pole quick.”

Sloane: “Kisses and hugs.”

Lea to Ellie: (on the play stove) “Don’t touch it right here, it’s very hot.”

Lisa to Max: “Do you  want to play in the feely box?”

Wee Sprouts: Sweet peppers and carrots. Breakfast: Cereal and bananas. Lunch: Hummus on whole wheat sandwiches, cucumber slices and mandarin/raisin fruit salad. Snack: Peanut butter yogurt dip with apple slices.

Have a great day.

Thank you to all of the parents that joined us for our Wee Can Answer That! Parent’s Night.  It was a very fun night sharing and learning about each other.  I look forward to putting together a parent workshop in the near future on temperament.

While there isn’t an easy way to share all that we discussed, I wanted to at least share the handouts that we used last night:

WF Group Times and Types of Instruction

Emergent Curriculum

How Young Children Learn to Read

Morning Hassles With Your Preschooler

The Cure for Whining

Temperament Traits

Enjoy your day!

Tami

 

 

Hello! Hope everyone has had a good day so far!

We had a fantastic stripy day! If you look throughout the blog, we are decked out in stripes!

Emma started her morning off with quiet reading.

She then accompanied Zoey to the habitrail where they took turns putting their arms through the slots.

Daniel and P.K. lined up cars on the window sill. We talked about the colors of each of the cars. P.K. pointed to the blue car and said, “favorite”.

Different genres of music was turned on this morning so we got out the musical shakers. We shook our shakers high in the air!

We sure did get into it!

P.K. decided to put his musical shakers in his pocket!

Once the shakers were worn out, friends pointed to the drums! We hit the drum soft and hard.

Zoey preferred the piano over the drums. Emma enjoyed making loud noises with the drums.

The slide was the happening place to be. It was jam packed all day long!

Daniel made many funny faces today! Grrr!

After a playful morning, we took a breather by the side door.

Before lunch, Marty took a few friends into the kitchen where children worked on their fine motor skills using pegs and Styrofoam boards. Not only did they talk about colors but children were very strategic as they placed the pegs. P.K. built up as high as he could. Daniel made sure to put a peg in every hole. Clara chose to built using her hands instead of the board.

Wow, that’s high!

We FINALLY got a decent day where we could go outside! YAY! No snow. No rain. We’re there!

We bundled up and headed outside where we became familiar with the outside again!

The slide was a popular place.

Zoey spent her afternoon on the rocking chair. She enjoyed shaking her musical shakers while sitting. If the shaker dropped, she did a good job at maneuvering herself to get down and grab it.

For breakfast, children had cheerios and banana. AM snack was green peas. Lunch consisted of pita bread, ham slices, apples, and corn. PM snack was pretzels and raisins.

Have a terrific evening!

-Mindy

We started our day getting ready to receive lots of love-Valentine Love! Friends sat at the art table transforming cereal boxes into Valentine’s Mailboxes.

Writing Your Own Name Love.

Habitrail Love.

Stiff Tin Man Body Love.

Floppy Scarecrow Body Love.

Friends Who Oil Your Joints Love.

Balancing Love.

Music Meditation Over the Rainbow love.

So what DOES love feel like? We reached inside our feely box (where we placed a soft stuffed animal, a sharp, edgy shell, a wooden block and a rose) and talked about love. 

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: English Muffins with cream cheese and pear slices. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas, ham slices and roasted asparagus. Snack: Goldfish and cheese slices.

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a terrific weekend! We started off with group play. Friends gathered in the front area to play with airplanes and cars. Sharing was the theme of play today. Taking turns is an important topic that we discuss throughout different play experiences.

Clara cooked breakfast this morning. She turned the oven on and made sure to tell Miss Mindy that it was “hot” and “no touch!”

Emma played peek-a-boo with her scarf. She showed her pearly whites all day!

Zoey enjoyed looking out the window at a squirrel that she saw! She relaxed in the chair for a while today. Play took a lot out of her!

Music was turned on and friends spun and shook about!

Emma spun with a big smile on her face as Eve did a yoga pose!

Gross motor play was enjoyed throughout the day by our Wee Wee’s. Clara zoomed down the slide on her stomach as Emma waited for her turn down the slide.

We went to the kitchen where friends had the opportunity to paint if they would like. Clara and P.K. did an outstanding job at using the sponge to dot the paper. Instead of using it to paint, they pushed up and down on the paper leaving dot patterns. They both chose to finger paint as well .

Our hands just got a little dirty! We sure do love sensory play .

Sensory input at this age is extremely important. Eren tasted the paint in his mouth. We talked about painting on the paper instead of putting it in your mouth. Curiosity at this age is always at an all time high!

For breakfast, children had whole wheat bagels with soy butter and banana. AM snack was corn. Lunch consisted of whole grain noodles with beef, banana, and green peas. PM snack was oranges and animal crackers.

Have a great night!

-Mindy