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Pajama Day

12/21/2012

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Pajama Day was a blast! All the kiddos looking so precious in the p.j.’s!  We started off our morning inside due to the weather but it quickly warmed up and we headed outside for a dance party in our p.j.’s!  We had an extra special snack this morning; the toddler class joined us in our room to make fruit smoothies! Everyone gathered around our table to watch Miss Toni mix all of our yummy fruit together in a blender.  We used pineapples, bananas, strawberries, honey, ice and water to make our smoothies.  Everyone used a straw and drank these delicious smoothies super-fast!  While everyone was finishing up their smoothie we watched the music video Miss Cherokee made!  It is always so great to see how excited the sprouts get to see themselves on tv! 

We headed back outside for some more exploration before lunch.  Miss Lizzie and Miss Toni brought Little Dragon outside to play with us! Unfortunately he didn’t want to come out of his tunnel, but the Shining Star’s still loved to come and talk to him up close.

After lunch and nap time we finished up our gifts for our wonderful parents and gathered everything together to take home during the break. 

We certainly hope everyone has a wonderful break!  We will sure miss everyone but we will see you in 2013! 

Much Love, Lizzie and Nick

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12/20/12 A Busy Thursday

12/21/2012

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The school seemed deserted walking into the primary room and finding no one. Searching the whole school it seemed that Thursday started off for everyone in the pre-tot room. Leina and Colette played with the pre-tots rocking horse and made up an imaginary world with all the different animals around the room. We stayed here until our snack time began just after nine. Once back in our room Caden and Paige joins us. It was a very long snack, after some of the emotions of getting dropped off had settled down all of our friends were quite content chatting with each other and some of them competing for Caden's attention. Our friends finished snack one by one, and went over to nick to work on an ornament to give their parents for the holidays. Once they finished their ornaments they were free to explore some of the new things around the room. Caden was excited to see how the room had changed since he left in October. Paige and Caden hung out on the couch for awhile catching up while Jasper and Rhys quickly adopted the toy Caden had just abandoned. With their energy in the class room increasing we took them outside to explore the backyard before lunch. It was windy once we got out there but it did not seem to bother any of our friends. With some energy expended, it was time for lunch. We had a quite start to lunch because everyone was too busy eating to talk. With half of our lunch time expired, the conversation around the table began. All the girls wanted to switch seats and sit next to Caden and show him their new water bottles ( even though they weren't new).
Lizzie read a story after lunch and then we all laid down for nap.
After waking up from nap Paige has a surprise for everyone, she had brought a loaf of bread from wheatsville and shared it with everyone for snack. With some hummus and bread in our tummies we came to the big carpet to play a game. Our game was to move from one mat to another as a specific animal. We hopped like kangaroos, crawled like bears, and even swam like fish to different mats.
After a few games to spark their imagination, it was time for Spanish. Leona let the class in a welcome song, then they played a game of bingo. She had them captivated with Spanish for thirty minutes then it was time to go outside for our pick up time.
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 12-19 An Old Friend Comes to Visit

12/20/2012

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Hola parents!  This morning we had a blast outside enjoying the wonderful windy weather! The Shining Star's had a special visitor today, Caden came to Green Sprout and will be with us for the rest of the week!  How exciting!  Everyone was so happy to see him! All the kiddos were having so much fun we decided to eat snack outside as a school!  After we filled our bellies with our delicious snack we continued to play outside.  Playing baseball was a big activity this morning. Leina can really hit the ball far!  Miya and Maya were on the hunt for rollie pollies while Tristan acted as if he was Woody from Toy Story with his cowboy hat on. 
We came inside to start our art project.  We can't go into too much detail about this project because its a secret :) Lets just say the Shining Star's had an absolute blast painting as a class.  Once we all cleaned up the table we put on our shoes and headed out to the deck to release some energy before lunch time and nap.  During lunch Caden told us all about his new school , everyone was very interested to hear all the details he shared with us. 
The Shining Stars spent the afternoon with Miss Toni and Mrs. Leona singing songs and having an absolute blast!  Mrs. Leona taught us a new song where we have to position our bodie4s in many different silly ways! The kiddos absolutely LOVED this new song!
We certainly hope everyone's day was as great as ours here in the Shining Star room!  See everyone tomorrow :)

<3 <3
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Candy Canes and Gift Wrapping (12/18/12)

12/19/2012

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It was a much busier day at the sprout than a normal Tuesday. We had Maya and Joey drop in and Rhys started full time today, so we had a larger class than normal. After our morning snack Lizzie lead an art project where we used shaving cream with food coloring as paint. A lot of glitter was added to finish off their master pieces. Following our art project we went out to the deck and practice wrapping a very large present for Greensprout. Everyone helped wrap the box our new sensory table came in. We capped it off with some bows for style points and had a quick circle time after it was finished. We ran off some energy outside after our class's circle time and played a lot of baseball. We had a good lunch then nap time. It took a little longer for everyone to fall asleep than normal but everyone except two friends were down by one.
Upon waking, we told everyone we were going to get little dragon out after snack. Everyone was very excited to see him out, so we finished snack quickly and sat down on the big carpet while nick and Lizzie held little dragon for all our friends to see. They commented on him licking the air and learned that's how he smells. After an exciting time with our reptile friend we used the remaining time for free art and counting games. Joey and Rhys enjoyed the candy cane counting and adding game the most. After cleaning up our art table it was time to go outside for pick up.
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Handy Dandy Tools

12/17/2012

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Happy Monday parents!  I hope you had a fabulous weekend!  This morning on the playground all the kiddos where in such high spirits during morning drop off.  It makes us so happy to see all the kiddos so eager to start another week.  This morning after Leina, Zoey, and Maya went with Miss Arielle for Kinder Blossom while the rest of the Shining Stars had circle time and Show and Tell. 

After our circle time, we went to centers.  Most of the kiddos wanted to play with our new toys in the Construction center.  We have new tools and a parking garage for the kiddos to explore and exercise their fine motor skills using the different tools.  Miya, Rhys, Tristan and Dax all worked together to fix the parking garage.  During this time Miss Lizzie explained how to use each tool and what they were called.  We discussed that some tools we twist or spin, some we use to hit nails; emphasizing that our hammer here at Green Sprout is only pretend and we must be gentle when using this toy.  We chatted how some tools are very sharp and are used to cut pieces of wood or other material.  During this time we really discussed safety and how to be safe when using tools, even pretend ones.

While most of the kiddos were exploring in the Construction center, Colette and Paige wanted to practice writing in the Writing Center.  We really focused our attention to our names.  We used markers to help us write our names. 

Our center time just flew by today and before we knew it was time to go outside to release some energy before lunch and nap time.  While outside our awesome substitute Mr. Kenny was making Mickey Mouse balloons for the kiddos to play with.  The Shining Stars did a fabulous job sharing these balloon animals!

Once we all woke up from a long nap, we finished show and tell then got ready for our afternoon art project. This afternoon we gathered on the deck to start on our Christmas tree for our room.  We all took off our shoes and socks then used our feet to paint the leaves of the tree!  All the kiddos really enjoyed feeling the wet and gooey texture on their feet and in between their toes!  We continued to play on the deck after we finished the tree.  Paige brought us an extra special treat today!  She brought cookies for our class, how sweet! While the kiddos were playing on the deck we baked the cookies, then sat down for an awesome picnic outside! We then cleaned off our feet, put on our shoes and headed outside for afternoon pick up.

We had a great day today here in the Shining Stars room, really getting in to the Holiday Spirit!

Lots of Love, Lizzie

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Food Project Friday 12/14/12

12/17/2012

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Fridays always have a very laid back feel to them. We started with some music in the back yard as always. Yo gaba gaba was the first to be played and most of the toddlers danced by the stairs where the CD player is. On the other side of the playground Maya was busy making blueberry pumpkin smoothies. She recruited Paige to help find pumpkins around the back yard. After helping Maya, she decided to water the grass with some sand. Dax played some tag with Leina and Paige which turned into a giant group hug. We went inside for snack, Tristan declined to have any cantaloupe but sat with his friends and chatted anyway. After snack Lizzie took half the class and made "stained glass" stars of David. They coloured those stars then rubbed them with oil to make them see through. Nick took the other half and made snow men. Some came out very abstract and other as a typical snowman but of varying colours. Paige went the abstract route and jumbled all the parts up which could have been frosty the snow man after he melted. After our art project we went outside for a dance party and numerous games of tag.
After lunch Toni came in and lead a food project. We put grapes on cinnamon tooth picks and made snowmen with them. Then Toni showed everyone how to make snow to put on our grape snowmen. For the snow, everyone got a bag of coconut flakes and two drops of blue food colouring to shake making the coconut a light blue. To make it stick to the grapes everyone got a scoop of yogurt to roll the grapes in then sprinkled the coconut on the grapes. Everyone had a lot of fun making the snowmen and out the left overs in their lunch boxes to take home. After our food project we went to the deck to check out our new sensory table. It was a big hit with Tristan, Dax, and Rhys. After hanging out on the deck for a bit we headed to the back yard for outside pick up and the end of a great week.
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Playdate with the Pre-Tots

12/13/2012

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We started our day inside again this morning due to the weather.  Miss Lizzie, Leina, and Colette hung out in the Pre-Tot room for most of morning drop off.  Colette immediately wanted to ride the rocking horse!  She demonstrated to the Pre-Tots how to get on and off of the horse safely.  We then brought out the instruments to sing songs.  Leina and Colette took turns playing the saxophone and the xylophone while Lizzie played the piano.  Olive and Ancel joined in on the fun and shook the maracas!  I have to say our band sounded pretty good!  Paige arrived and we then got ready for snack, helping our little friends clean up their room.  We all sat down and ate apples and bananas.  Once we all finished snack we headed out to the deck to make snow!!  While we were marching to the deck, Jasper and Joey joined us.  We gathered around the sensory table while Miss Lizzie made the snow.  She used baking soda and water and the kiddos used their hands to make snow flakes!  All the kiddos really enjoyed the texture of the fake snow.  The girls loved making snow balls to throw in the air while singing jingle bells!  Colette even made up her very own winter song she sang while playing with the snow.  We moved our fun to the backyard because it was time for the infants to take their morning nap. On the playground we discovered green and red bows everywhere!  The girls decided they wanted to decorate the house for the holidays.  They first used chalk to "paint" the house, then stuck the bows all over the outside of the house.  While the girls were busy decorating, Jasper and Joey were playing catch.  They sure know how to throw a ball!  Jasper then wanted to hit the ball like he was playing baseball. Joey directed his attention to the lego table where he found Winnie the Pooh and Tigger!  We were having so much fun with our holiday activities outside we looked at the clock and it was already time for lunch!
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Twelve Twelve Twelve

12/13/2012

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Wednesday started off inside again due to the cold. We started snack and slowly all of our friends arrived. Kinderblossom started right after snack, so Leina, Maya, and Zoey all headed out with Ariel. The weather had warmed up so we skipped our inside activities and went outside for the first time today. Everyone was in great spirits and full of energy outside. The girls made a "yucky" cake for everyone and Dax decided to make a chocolate cake for everyone. Paige and Colette got cold so they asked to borrow nicks jacket so the two of them walked around in it and it looked like the jacket was walking by itself because no legs or arms were visible.
Lunch was a lot of fun. Toni popped in for a bit to chit chat with all of our sproutlets. All the kids loves when Toni stays to talk for a while because she brings a great caffeinated energy to the class room.
Transition from lunch to story time was very quick today, and everyone was ready for a nap. Everyone woke up from nap and promptly sat down for our afternoon snack without almost any prompts or instructions. We had a very nice snack time and played a few games at the table to get everyone's mind ready for Spanish. After we cleaned up our area we met on the big carpet for Spanish.
Leona brought her daughter Alma to sing with us during Spanish class. Among their favorite is the wake up song in which they get to use bells to wake their friends up with one by one. Another song they enjoy is one where they get drum sticks to use, everyone does really well when they sing and have something to hold.
Due to a string of potty related matters we did not have time for our art project and being 4 o'clock we headed outside.
Many of the kids were energized from their long naps and so wanted to play non stop. Tristan and Dax were together most of the time outside. Zoey came up with the idea to find bugs and recruited nick to help. Tristan and Dax joins them once they found what looked to be a yellow lady bug. After a few minutes their interest in Henry the bug faded and he was spared a life of captivity to rejoin his habitats in the trees.
It was a good end to the day at Greensprout.

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A Teamwork Tuesday

12/11/2012

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We had another fabulous day in the Shining Star Room! We had two visitors again today, Jasper and Joey joined us from the toddler room.  We started this morning in the Primary room, and then headed outside for a short time to run around and release some energy. Leina practiced balancing on the oute lined area of the playscape while Joey and Jasper chased Teddy and Soy around. Miss Toni then brought out a lego table Maya's family donated to Green Sprout.  Jasper, Leina, Zoey, and JOey had a great time building with the legos.  Leina and Zoey decided to use one color of the table and matching blocks to fill their area. When we lined up to come inside for snack all the kiddos quickly formed a line, and reminded our new friends in the Shining Star room that we take off our shoes and hang our jackets on the coat rack.  Leina, Colette, Paige and Zoey were more than eager to help the boys hang up their jackets. 

Once we finished snack we all gathered on the carpet for circle time.  During circle time we chatted about the weather, Colette reminded us that in the Arctic it feels like winter all year round!  We then continued about Hanukkah.  Leina was very informative and told us that Hanukkah lasts for 8 days, and each day during this time you light a candle on a Menorah.  Paige and Zoey then told Jasper and Joey we made our own Menorah’s.  Joey quickly responded and informed them he and Jasper also made Menorahs! 

We then directed our attention to center time.  The girls gave Joey and Jasper a tour of all the fun activities, games, and puzzles they could explore.  Jasper immediately wanted to explore a shape puzzle. He did a great job identifying the colors and shapes he saw in the puzzle!  Colette constructed a building in the building center, carefully balancing each block to make sure her tower didn't fall. Joey found our bears that he could dress in different outfits.  Leina, Paige and Zoey came to the big carpet to work on a giant space puzzle.  They all worked together to well to assemble this huge puzzle.  Jasper and Joey then discovered our Color Counting game.  They helped each other so well to find which colored tile to put in the box.  Once they completed this activity they cleaned up very well and directed their attention to the puzzle the girls were working on.  Colette moved her attention to the bears puzzle, once she assembled each bear she then realized the bowl of the pieces she used looked magnified her creation! We all cleaned up the room, put on our jackets and shoes and headed outside for a quick playtime before lunch.

While outside Jasper and Miss Lizzie played baseball.  Jasper loves to throw the ball himself and hit it with the bat.  He sure can hit the ball far!  Joey used his time to continue his building with the legos.  Leina, Colette, Zoey, and Paige used their time to drive to the store and buy ingredients for a pie and cake they are going to make for the holidays.  

Everyone had such a great nap today, Jasper and Paige didnt want to wake up, they were so cozy.  While we waited for our friends to wake up Joey, Leina, Zoey, and Colette painted pictures of a Winter's night.  They really loved painting a picture of the night sky!  Lenia painted a "night rainbow", shooting stars, and the moon.  Joey painted the moon and shooting stars.  Zoey and Colette not only painted the night sky, they painted the planets; Colette even painted footprints of aliens walking on the planets!  Paige and Jasper woke up, we all washed up for afternoon snack and got ready to paint again.  Each kiddo painted a Star of David to hang in our classroom!  While the kiddos were painting Miss Lizzie explained the Star of David is the Jewish star, and is a symbol on the Israeli flag.  We all finished painting we washed our hands and headed back outside for afternoon pick up.  Miss Toni surprised us on the playground!  We all we super excited to see her, sing songs, and dance!  What a great end to an already fabulous day!  

Stay warm!  We will see you tomorrow! :)

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12/10 Monday Madness

12/11/2012

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Monday started off with a bunch of emotions. Even though everyone had winter clothe, not many of our friends seemed to enjoy being outside this morning. With a unanimous consensus, everyone was inside before nine o'clock. Our friends occupied their time with making beaded necklaces or "reading" books on the couch during our normal drop off time. Maya and Tristan worked on making necklaces and even showed other friends like Miya how to make them.
We had a long snack because no one seemed to get full today, so we had a few extra rounds of fruit and cereal. We started to get ready for show and tell but everyone seemed to have a little too much energy to sit down for too long so we tried going outside again.
Everyone was much happier to be outside this time around and played tag nonstop until we had to go in for some class work and show and tell.
We drew pictures of what winter meant to us and then had time for half of our class to do show and tell.
Maya brought a really neat book of her and her family with pictures from a vacation they took.
Tristan showed everyone a cowboy riding a horse just like the movie toy story, but he declined to pass it around.
Leina joined our class in the middle of show and tell and we even had a special guest, Leina's mom, sit down with us for a bit.
We only got to half the class before lunch time came, so we promised everyone they would get a turn after nap.
Everyone was very tired and was out almost as soon as the lights went out.
After a healthy snack of mixed veggies we finished show and tell then did some dramatic play, something we haven't done in class for quite a while.
There were a few friends who still wanted to do art like maya, who felt like making jellyfish today. Everyone else played in our practical life area, Rhys was captivated by the different coins in the money box and his favorites were the pennies and pents, which had the lest value but did not seem to matter for Rhys.
With the weather a bit warmer we bundled up and went outside for outdoor exploration. Once outside all the children could release the energy they had to bottle up for most of the day. We played some running games like red light green light and even a little soccer.
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