The past two weeks have been amazing! The kindergarten crew became meteorologists for a week learning about weather and the different types of clouds. We started off by making a poster of the different types of weather, making sun rays, cloud finders, and our own rain cloud in a jar. The biggest hit of the week was their individual cloud finders. They were all so excited to run around the field and name the clouds they were looking to in the sky.

The next week we had all of our focus on the Walk-A-thon! Kindergarten made amazing motivational posters that were beautifully displayed around the track. It was amazing to see the kiddos who don’t normally choose drawing during free choice to dedicate their whole free choice to creating these posters! 

We want to say a big thank you to all the parents who showed up during the Walk-A-Thon, and all those who donated to the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation. All staff and kiddos had a great time and it couldn’t have been done without all of your support. The K team thanks you very much!

The past two weeks of Kindergarten LEDP have been amazing! Kindergarteners were surely recharged from April break and ready to rock and roll!

Upon our return we started off with Superhero week, having them all name their superhero’s in their life. We started off with journal entries, making our own superhero’s and designing our own capes. 

We moved on to WALKATHON week. The kiddos have been learning about autism as this years event will be dedicated to raising money for The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism! Our friends were excited to share what they already may know. We have been reading many books about how everyone is different and how all our differences are accepted by the community. This week we have been making many posters for LEDP's favorite event of the year! It has been amazing to see many of the kiddos who don’t normally choose art, spend such a long time decorating the posters! 

Due to the weather the Walk-A-Thon had to be moved, but we are excited to see you all there and show off kindergartens posters! Please join us on Thursday, May 28th on the Lawrence track and check out the LEDP feature on the Flutie Foundation's website!

The past two weeks of kindergarten have been amazing! We have been spending a lot more time outside- getting our energy out. 

We spent three days focusing on Spring making colorful watering pots, watercolor flowers and beautiful colorful birds. It was a very colorful week, especially with the water color. They loved being able to incorporate a different type of paint into their art creations. 

We then “hopped” into pond week, focusing on the pond animals we all love! We made hand puppet froggies, turtles, and ducks. The frogs were a big hit for our kiddos! They loved playing around the room with them and many went above and beyond making extra features for their froggies- truly making them come to life with their incredible imaginations! 

As the weather is getting nicer, we will be outside more. Feel free to provide your kiddos with any essentials they normally need for the hot and sunny days.  

We hope everyone has a wonderful April break! We look forward to returning ready and recharged for more K fun!

The past two weeks of kindergarten has been filled with beautiful weather and many crafts! We are so excited to welcome the spring weather and spend many of our days outside. Our themes the last two weeks were Saint Patrick’s week and Manners!

For St. Patrick’s week, we had a lot of festive projects planned starting out with happy shamrocks. Kindergarten was filled with rainbows and joy this week as we celebrated Saint Patrick’s week!

We then moved onto manners week! All of the kiddos did a great job, informing us about what proper manners look and sound like and how they can be practiced in our daily lives. We focused one whole day on the rainbow fish which shows how much sharing is caring and teaching the kiddos the importance of being kind to our friends. For this activity, we read the Rainbow Fish, which they all loved and colored in their own lovely fish.

They were able to tell us what makes a "good" friend; there were many amazing words that they came up with for this project. We then made polite bees, allowing them to pick which manner they wanted displayed on their art. They were able to choose from Bee Nice, Bee Polite and Bee a Good Friend. The project that was the biggest hit for manners week was our manners wands - they each got to fill out a star with their own manners that they wanted to demonstrate. This project was truly a big hit. They loved how they could come up with the manners on their own and they wanted to use them all day long, which made us teachers very happy!

Now that it’s getting nicer out during pick up times, please take a look over at the playground because we will most likely be ending our days outside. Another friendly reminder that LEDP does not provide snacks so please make sure that your kiddo has extra snack for the second half of the day.

Spring is officially on its way! The past two weeks we have focused on careers as our theme while also welcoming Spring!

For career week we came together as a group and discussed the many different jobs the kiddos want to be when they grow up. The top winners for jobs in kindergarten were artists, doctors, nurses, physical therapists and writers.  We also worked together and named many different jobs they know of. For projects we created ourselves as firemen, our very own doctor bags and made our own police badges. They had a blast telling us about their dream jobs and journaling themselves as adults working them. 

We then jumped into Spring week because Spring is quickly approaching. We had an amazing two days with the beautiful spring weather. We all were thrilled to be able to spend our days outside. We made spring flowers out of our handprints, created insects in grass from scrap paper and rain boots jumping in puddles. They have all enjoyed our projects and the extra time we have had outside! 

We would like to remind families that LEDP is not always able to provide kiddos with snacks. We have noticed an uptick of some kiddos eating their snack during upstairs hours and not having anything for LEDP. We kindly ask to label the snacks or provide extra so they are not hungry during LEDP hours.  Thank you!

Over the past two weeks in kindergarten we focused on friendship and love! We were able to celebrate friendship week and show our appreciation for others. Together as a group we created a list of what makes a good friend. They all had amazing ideas and worked together to create a list of many traits that makes a good friend. They were all so excited to share their ideas and all had very good examples. We then made friendship sweethearts. This included using handprints and adding the words love and 'xoxo' on them. We then moved onto a friendship tree. With bright and beautiful colors, we used all their handprints as leaves to create a sign for our room. 

Moving onto valentines week, we celebrated love. We made heart caterpillars, roses out of their handprints, heart people, homemade cards, and a big dance party on the last day before vacation! They truly enjoyed making all of their valentines decor and sharing their cards with all their friends! 

We hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing vacation and snow days. We look forward to the following weeks, and stay warm!

The past two weeks kindergarten has been focusing on winter and its activities included. We started off by making skis and snowboards along with ice skates, and sleds! We have recently started adding Fun Friday's into our weekly schedule and they love it! During Fun Friday we have scratch art, rainbow loom and the music they love most. Many of them love putting in requests for songs and our top requests are anything John Denver and Ghostbusters. 

We had two unexpected but delightful snow days! We jumped back into winter activities when we returned to school with journaling about their favorite activity they did on their snow days and having them work together on a winter wonderland scenery!

Unfortunately with the the freezing cold temperatures, we have been missing out on our a lot of our outside time. We have been getting our energy out in the gym by playing many games like Pac-Man tag, Fishy, Fishy Cross My Ocean, Red Light, Green Light and dance parties during free choice time. 

If you have a moment, LEDP staff would very much appreciate families to check out our Amazon Wish List (with a link provided on the LEDP homepage). There you will find a lot of LEDP essentials; we thank you in advance for your consideration and generosity. 

Hello Kindergarten families! We hope everyone had a wonderful break and wish everyone a very Happy New Year!

Over the past two weeks in Kindergarten, we have been exploring the exciting world of safari animals! The K group has been busy learning, creating and using their imaginations as we focused on our favorite safari animals. 

Our young artists had so much fun making their very own koalas, giraffes, lions, parrots, frogs and zebras! Each and every animal creation was unique, just like the artist who made it! We loved seeing the different colors, shapes and personalities brought to life in their artwork. The kiddos were so proud to share their creations and talk about what they learned about each animal. Stay tuned for our next theme!

If you have a moment, LEDP staff would very much appreciate families to check out our Amazon Wish List (with a link provided on the LEDP homepage). There you will find a lot of LEDP essentials; we thank you in advance for your consideration and generosity. 

These past two weeks kindergarten has been in a magical winter wonderland! We set the whole month of December to focus on beautiful parts of winter to distract us from the bitter cold. We started off by learning about winter animals!  We made penguins and snow owls on branches. We then moved onto one of their favorites which is scratch art and created melted snowmen. Finishing up our winter projects we made glittery snowflakes and snow globes!

We want to say a big thank you for everyone who came to our wonderful parent night! It was amazing seeing all of you and your kiddos interact in the space we call home! They were all thrilled to be able to show you around our space and their amazing art and journals. It was such a special night and we were all so happy to get to know you all more!

As a reminder, it is getting increasingly colder so we ask for the kiddos to have appropriate outside clothing. We hope you all have amazing and relaxing holidays!

The kindergarten group has been having an amazing past two weeks in LEDP! We wrapped up our fall weeks with Q-Tip pumpkins and candy corn, then jumped into farm animals. We made handprint horses, piggy's using different mediums, Lego painting corn on the cob and had the mentors join us for a day!  

The kiddos have been working hard in LEDP to earn stickers for their Reward Chart. We have a couple friends who are close to reaching their goal of 12 to earn a prize. They truly enjoy helping others, along with their teachers! We are so incredibly thankful for all of them!

With the sun setting much sooner and mother nature offering colder days we kindly ask that your children arrive to LEDP with weather appropriate attire (i.e. gloves, hat, jackets etc)! We try to go outside every day, even it is for a short time :-)

We will be having a parent night on December 2 in the small LEDP room 5:00-5:45! More information to follow.

We would love for you all to be there for fun activities with your kiddos. Hope to see you then!

The past couple of weeks kindergarten has been welcoming Fall! For our fun fall activities, we made leaf handprints, rake art, apple tasting, tall trees and fox’s. each one of these activities the kiddos were so thrilled to partake in. They enjoyed sharing their knowledge about the apples and which ones were their favorite. The options for the apples we had were Gala, Granny Smith and Honey Crisp. The winner for our group tasting activity was HONEY CRISP!

We welcomed the mentors to play a fun game of Cat & Mouse. For this game they used a giant parachute and one person was on top and another one was underneath the parachute. The person on top who is the cat had to catch the mouse who was under the parachute. They had a blast with the mentors, especially the kiddos who had their siblings in the group! 

Since we were in the fall spirit, we welcomed fall animals. The kiddos made fantastic fox’s, bear masks, moose head bands and played a big game of What time is it Mr. Fox? They had a blast this week, learning about the fall animals and sharing their favorites with the group. 

We then flew into space week! All the kindergarten projects were Out Of This World! We made rocket ships with planets, meteors, space scratch art and balloon planets. They had a blast creating these projects and we cant wait for the future projects. 

Kindergarten has started a reward board the they are all thrilled about. For their good behaviors and good deeds they will be able to earn a sticker for our board. If they get 12 stickers they earn a small prize, but if they decide to save that 12 and earn 12 more to get to 24 they will receive a big prize. They have been doing an amazing job and we are excited to see their progress!

Hello Kindergarten Families!

We have had an amazing past two weeks getting to know the kiddos. We all have been learning many amazing things about them and vice versa. We are officially settled- finding a routine that works best for our kiddos. 

During our time in LEDP we have been learning about shapes and numbers. During shape week, we did scribble art, my shape pizzas, shape monsters, shape people and color-coded shape search. They were all ready to jump into these projects without hesitation. They thoroughly enjoyed teaching us about all of the shapes they know and how to make them. 

Jumping into numbers week we started out with the counting caterpillar, Uno dice game, cloud counting and then domino activity. For the domino activity, we had three tables with white paper which had outlines of dominos with the number of dots they had to find. Once they found the domino with the matching number they would color in the domino. During this project they all worked together, which was amazing to see. They did not hesitate at all to jump into this project. 

The kindergarten group is welcoming a new teacher this week! Please take a minute to introduce yourself to Tyriana Carter. Tyriana comes to us with after-school experiences with young children. We are excited to welcome her into our LEDP family.  Francesca will be moving to second grade; she has worked with the children currently in second grade, therefore we think it will be a good fit and an easy transition. We understand this could be challenging for some children, since the kindergarten group has formed a bond with Francesca, but they will be able to  keep connected with her, daily, outside on the playground. 

Just a friendly reminder that LEDP does not supply snacks, so please provide an afternoon snack.  Some children eat their LEDP snack during the school day, we suggest putting it in a separate baggie and labeling it LEDP as a reminder. 

Hello Kindergarten families!

The past two weeks of kindergarten have been extremely eventful!

We were so excited to welcome all of your little ones into our group. Our team consists of kindergarten coordinator Bridget, with teachers Francesca and Jayda.  We have been enjoying getting to know each and every kindergartener individually. They have already made an impact on each one of us and we are excited to watch them bloom this year.

This year kindergarten will be following weekly themes with our activities. So far, we have had a "Get to Know Me Week," with many activities such as our craft rainbow, with each ray representing a fun fact about each kiddo. Our first days in LEDP, we pulled out the parachute and played in the gym; They truly enjoyed this activity, and I can see us using it many times this year. 

We have been going over the rules and expectations these past weeks and they have been doing an amazing job. Just a friendly reminder that at pick up time on the playground, please make sure you check out with one of our three teachers. I am glad to say many of our kiddos have been doing a great job with this! Please also consider labeling the kiddos snack for LEDP, we have provided snacks for the friends who don’t have it, but we may not always have a snack for them. 

Please consider looking at our LEDP Wishlist, for some goodies for the kiddos to create with!

Thank you all and we are looking forward to a great year!