Dr. Daul check’s Scruffy’s heartbeat and vitals.

As part of Fitness Friday today, our friend, Ms. Liz led us in a session of yoga for children. We did many poses including many letters and animals. The children’s favorite was definitely the volcano, as they loved making the explosive noises! We also enjoyed the calmer poses of the cow, cat, snake, sun, moon and rainbow!

Namaste.

Thank you to Ms. Tara and her beautiful baby boy for visiting Mayflower and helping us to learn about babies! We loved watching him totter around among us, and enjoyed his delighted expression as he began to eat his yummy baby food!

Mayflower Nursery School Community Story Time

Wednesday, February 8 at 10:00 AM

Kavarna Coffeehouse

We will share love themed songs, stories, finger plays and a craft for preschool aged children and younger.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Two by two

And four by four

Love grows friend by friend

At Mayflower

In February we will spend a lot of time in our classrooms talking about ways we express love. We will share our friendships together during a Valentine sticker exchange, and we will enjoy some time out of our classrooms on field trips into our community!

February 2012 Newsletter

Bunny Calendar February 2012

Duck Calendar February 2012

We had an amazing week celebrating music at Mayflower!

We learned about and played with many different instruments including our beautiful voices!

We also welcomed many talented guest artists to share their musical gifts with us! Thank you to Bella Bigari, who played the violin; Alex Galt, who played the mandolin; Georgina Meulemans, who played the piano, Sarah Zacek, who played the guitar and sang, and Josh Gordon, who also played the guitar and sang. What fun we had making music together!

our Duck class created this beautiful friendship quilt

showing our dreams of

friendship, acceptance and peace.

We are incorporating the rainbow into our snack time lessons! The concept, Eat A Rainbow, is perfect for preschoolers to learn how to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables each day. We will be learning how eating different colors of fruits and vegetables at meals and snacks can be a fun way to eat well and get a variety of nutrients!

Learning to make positive food choices when children are young helps to establish lifelong habits of choosing and eating healthy food. You can also practice eating the rainbow at home with the whole family!

Here are a few tips to add more of the rainbow of fruits and vegetables into your daily routine:

• Let your child help to plan your menus and snacks.
• Allow your child to choose fruits and vegetables at the grocery store to try at home or school.
• Eat fruits and vegetables raw or just lightly cooked instead of heavily cooked or flavored, and children will be more likely to eat them.
• Offer new fruits and vegetables with a low calorie dip, such as low sugar yogurt or hummus (pureed chick peas).
• Aim to offer fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables, instead of canned. If you do serve canned fruit and vegetables, look for “in natural juice” or “no added sodium” or rinse the fruit or vegetable prior to serving.
• Have at least one fruit or vegetable at each snack and mealtime of different colors.
• Encourage your child to try new foods. It can take up to 15 times of being exposed to a food before your child decides if they like it or not. However, you should never force a child to eat.
• Give your child choices at snack and mealtime for fruits and vegetables. For example, “You can have carrots or broccoli.”
• Post the Eating a Rainbow snack list, where your child can see it.

Thank you for helping us to incorporate Eating a Rainbow both at school and at home and continuing on our journey of establishing lifelong healthy habits with our children.

Eating a Rainbow Snack Ideas

RED

Roasted beets

Cherries

Cranberries or dried cranberries

(be aware of added sugar in dried fruit)

Pomegranate seeds

Radish slices

Raspberries

Red apple slices

Red bell pepper slices

Strawberries

Tomato slices

Watermelon slices

ORANGE

Apricots or dried apricots

Carrot slices or baby carrots

Mango slices

Nectarines

Orange slices

Peaches

Pumpkin muffins (low sugar, whole wheat)

YELLOW

Corn on the cob

Starfruit slices

Yellow apple slices

GREEN

Steamed artichokes

Asparagus spears

Avocado slices/ guacamole

Broccoli

Celery slices (with sunflower butter and raisins)

Cucumber slices

Steamed edamame

Green apple slices

Green grapes

Green pear slices

Green pepper slices

Honeydew

Kiwi

Lettuce wraps

Sugar snap peas

Spinach muffins

Zucchini bread

BLUE

Blueberries

PURPLE

Figs

Purple grapes

Plum slices

WHITE

Pear slices

Banana

Jicama slices

White asparagus

White peaches

BLACK

Blackberries

Black olives

PINK

Grapefruit slices

Papaya slices

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