Boston LeBuffes: February 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Veronica Daycare Photo: Snowmans

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Date: Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Subject: Today in preschool

Hello Preschool Families,

Today during circle we continued our conversation around Winter. Some of the children shared some of their favorite winter activities, but all of the children shared a fact that they knew about winter. We then read the book In The Snow where it focused on animal foot prints in the snow, on the hunt for food. Attached you will find the children’s facts about winter. We will further continue this conversation for the rest of January.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Happy New Year!

- Aisha, Arelhy, and Jen

Veronica Daycare Photos: Feelings and Pine Needles

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Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Subject: Our week at TSC

Hello preschool families,

During the week of December 16-20^th the preschool class has focused on the author Jan Brett. Some interesting facts we learned: she is from MA, her birthday is December 1, and she writes about feelings. Also in her illustrations she shows us foreshadowing. Therefore the children were able to predict what was happening next. We read The Mitten and The Hat. During Wednesday’s curriculum we read Sometimes I am Bombaloo, a book that talks about feelings. As Jan incorporates feelings in her books. To extend on Bombaloo we also talked about problem solving techniques. Taking 3 deep breathes, calm down, think about the problem and think about a solution. Check out the book corner for our problem resolution aids. The preschoolers have also had the opportunity to become authors and illustrators of two books Our Feelings and A Mitten. Publishing to follow!

Our dramatic play area was transformed into a cave where children had the opportunity to reenact the story The Mitten. Animal masks and props were created by the children.

A clothes line was added to reenact the story The Hat. Felt clothes were designed by the children and teachers to be used in the clothes line.

The letter of the week was O, the children had the opportunity to use different tools; O stamps, tracing O’s, dobbing O’s, and O word cards.

In our science exploration we had the opportunity to paint with pine needles. Chisel treasures out of ice, manipulate snow and oobleck.

Have a great weekend!,

Arelhy

Max Daycare Photos: Shape Collage

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Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Subject: Infant Two Pictures 12/17/13

Hello Parents,

Today the children made a shape collage using stickers! We helped them a little by lifting the corners of the stickers. After, they were able to finish it themselves! This activity promoted Fine motor and hand eye coordination.

Thanks,

Infant two team

Veronica Daycare Photos: Foot Prints

From December 13, 2013:

Today we concluded our conversations around Dr. Seuss and his books! We created a chart where all of the children voted on their favorite book from this week. Today we read The Foot Book, which was super silly. The children really enjoyed this book. After reading this book I then asked everyone to predict who they thought would have the smallest feet and who they thought would have the biggest feet.

Here are their predictions:

Smallest feet

Zofia- Ian

Audrey R- Charlie

Eric U. - Charlie

Lila- Audrey R

Audrey A- Olivia

Ian- Charlie

Charlie- Audrey R

Largest Feet

Ben- Zofia

Wyeth- Yael

Yael- Lila

Veronica- Lucas (Note from Patricia: She guessed correctly!)

Olivia- Zofia

Lucas- Eric U.

Today’s activities fostered cognitive, language, science, and gross motor development
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

We miss you Ninong!

Ninong came for a visit this past weekend. Here are a couple of photos that he took yesterday before we left for work/school. See you soon, Ninong!

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Max Daycare Photos: Ice Activity

Hello Parents,

Here are pictures of today’s ice activity! The children had fun touching and tasting the ice cubes as they played. They would laugh at one another whenever they lost their grasp on the ice! It was a great sensory/science activity.

Infant Two Team

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Veronica Daycare Photos: Grouchy Ladybug

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Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Subject: Today in Preschool

Hello Preschool Families,

Today we continued our author study on Eric Carle. During circle time we read The Grouchy Ladybug and the children loved it! Claudia even put on a puppet show for us as she read the book. After circle all of the children worked on creating their own lady bugs. Please see attached photos!

Hope everyone is having a great day,

Preschool Team

Max Daycare Photos: More Toddler 1 Fun!

Hi Adrian and Patricia,

Here are a few photos of Max playing in toddler one this morning.

Have a great day!

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Max Daycare Photos: Music with Hugh

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Date: Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Subject: Infant two pictures 11/27/13

Hello Patricia & Adrian,

Here are some pictures of Max having fun during Hugh’s visit today!

Jonathan

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And Max getting down!

Max Daycare Photos: Playing in Toddler 1

Back in November 2013, Max was in the Infant 2 room. However, they would periodically bring him into the Toddler 1 room if there was space in the Toddler 1 classroom. He has transitioned to Toddler 1 now and he loves it.

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Subject: Max playing in Toddler one
To: ablebuffe@gmail.com, pllana@gmail.com

Hi Adrian and Patricia,

Here are some photos of Max exploring Toddler One. He loved the climber, checking himself out in the mirror and joined our circle.

Enjoy!

Jessica and Adrienne

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Veronica Preschool Email

As you can see from the email below, Veronica is a bit advanced verbally. Even telling jokes!

(The letter of the week was K.)

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Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Subject: Today in Preschool

Hello Preschool Families,

Today our friend Felix brought in a book for us to read that corresponded with this week’s curriculum. The book was called Flashing Fire Engines by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker. This rhyming book touched on everything that we’ve been learning about this week! The children absolutely loved this book and it also included new vocabulary words.

New words that we went over in detail today:

·         Fireproof
·         Crew
·         Gear
·         Nozzle
·         Tanks
·         Extinguish

After reading the book I then asked everyone to reflect on this past week and to tell me one thing that they learned. Here are their answers!

Ben- There’s a team of firefighters.

Lila- firefighters wear masks.

Zofia- They wear helmets and masks to protect them.

Audrey R- They put out fire with water.

Audrey A- K is the letter of the week. Kangaroo is for K.

Eric U- Karen begins with K.

Wyeth- They drive fire trucks.

Eric N- Firefighters psshhh water.

Yael- Firefighters wear helmets.

Felix- Firefighters wear boots to protect their feet.

Charlie- Mommy and Daddy are not firefighters. Sirens!

Ethan- Fire trucks go woo-woo

Veronica- K makes the Kuh sound. Firefighters also spray milk to put out the fires…just kidding; water!

Max Daycare Photo: Tunnel Crawl

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Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Infant two pictures 11/14/13

Hello Parents,

Here are some pictures of today’s tunnel crawl activity! They played peek-a-boo with each other by popping in and out of the tunnels!

Thanks,

Infant Two Team

Max Daycare Photos: Playground Push Toys

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Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Subject: Infant two picture's 11/5/13

Hello Parents,

Today we played in the field with push toys! The children chased after each other and had mini races! They also did some exploring in the fallen leaves.

Thanks,

Infant Two Team