Good Afternoon!

We ended our week with PREK1 sign in, focusing on drawing 2-D shapes. Each group member came up to the board where they chose a dotted shape. They worked at connecting the dots, making fluid lines to create a shape! Earlier in the week, Hannah had shared, “The square is the newest shape that I can draw!”—she chose that shape today to display this new found skill.

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

We have been enjoying our class interest in writing, kid spelling and book making lately.  There is a wide range of developmental growth and we love seeing that in all the different ages of kids that have this same interest.  Some friends are in the stage of describing their pictures.  This shows an understanding that words can represent images and thoughts.  Others can create a multi page narrative with a beginning, middle, and end but need help with writing words and sounding letters.  Others are beginning to sound out their own words all by themselves!

We explored an evolving activity at the round table this morning.  We started with water, animals, and natural materials.  Some kids were interested in making nature stew yesterday, so we began to add pots and spoons since kids wanted to continue down this path.  Some kids were talking about adding spices, so we also added some small seeds from our natural outdoor spaces for kids to add to their soups.  Once more, the project evolved as one friend wanted to pretend he was cleaning the water.  We added some sieves to help and other kids became interested in separating the natural materials and the water using the sieves.  We love following interests, keeping kids engaged.  This helps with lengthening attention spans and ability for focused attention.

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch: Ham on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/plums/oranges/apples, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.

PM Snack: Gold fish crackers with cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2025-09-12

Happy Friday!

This morning we engaged in a ball rolling paint activity with smooth and textured balls.  We used green, orange and yellow tempera paint.  We shook our bins back and forth on the floor and watched the balls roll across our papers to make our colorful paintings.

We then headed outside to explore the flowers, draw with chalk, engage in water play and spend some time with our older sibling.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh plum slices.

Lunch:  Honey ham lunch meat, whole grain wheat bread, fresh mini sweet pepper slices and bananas.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Goldfish crackers and Colby-Jack block cheese.

Wee Sprout:  Sugar Snap Peas.

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-12

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 friends came to the board where we worked with rhyming words. Each child was given one word and they had to share a rhyming word. We wrote the word on the board and repeated the rhyming word pair.

K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.

This morning, the kids got to explore the gooey results of their mixing experiment from earlier this week.  We kept it in the fridge to find out what the chia seeds would do as they set up.  They created a gel which added a stretchy, sticky squishy element to the concoction.  Everyone was surprised that they were playing with the same substance they had made,  which was much more of a liquid before.   

We added a loose parts activity to the round table this morning allowing kids to explore new and different ways they could use shapes.  We also added color components which encouraged sorting, pattern making and color matching.  They had lots of ideas.  They found that squares could build a road, rectangles could make a bridge.  One friend found that a combination of them could build a “comfy jail”.  Kids are always thinking outside of every box!

Outside, our kids have been enjoying the log area, a naturalized space that allows kids to build and imagine with logs, sticks and natural materials.  They wanted to pick leaves to make a stew in their “fort”.  Since we can’t have them picking the landscaping bushes, I did a little pruning in the area to open up more play space, which gave us a bunch of leaves for the stew.  The kids got to learn about the phrase “two birds one stone”.

Breakfast: Oatmeal squares with fresh bananas.

Lunch: Brown rice with chicken, fresh watermelon/mango, and fresh cucumbers/green beans.

PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and pumpkin/sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots/green beans.

Have a great night!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures:2025-09-11

Good Afternoon!

This morning we were engaged in the housekeeping area with the play food.  We were busy cooking the foods and putting them on a plate to eat at the table.

A friend requested See The Bunnies Sleeping song and we all acted out the motions.

Rose held her bottle to feed herself and enjoyed sitting in her chair while interacting with her teachers.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Corn Chex cereal and fresh mango.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with red beans,  fresh cucumber and pear slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat tortillas with peanut butter and fresapple slices.

Wee Sprout:  Yellow bell peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-11

Happy Wednesday!

This morning we all engaged in climbing on the habi-trail.

We engaged in the light table with translucent beads, plastic eggs and scoops.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful day!

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with Colby-jack shredded cheese, fresh mango and sugar snap peas and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus on whole grain wheat Ritz crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumber

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-10

Good Afternoon!

Shapes was the main topic of our PREK1 sign in this morning! Each group member got to blindly choose a shape from a bag, identify it, and match it to the same shape on the sign in board. Inevitably, we always have younger peers standing around, watching sign in take place. Our friends who are signing in always do such a great job at sharing things like, “This is called a hexagon—it has six sides.”

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

This morning we worked on making shapes using rubber bands and peg boards.  Some of us made individual shapes and we identified the shapes they made.  Others made larger creations like an airplane or a guitar.  As we looked, we found that there were shapes we could identify within the creation.  The body of the airplane made a rectangle.  The shape of the guitar turned out to be a triangle.

We explored a color matching activity this morning using colored water and colored lids.  We collected water with spoons or eye droppers and tried finding the lid of the same color.  We helped as a group to identify all of the colors we would need on the table so all of the different lids would have a corresponding water pitcher.  Later, friends wanted to mix the colors so we let them explore openly!

Please enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pears.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with cheese,  fresh peppers/cucumbers/green beans, and fresh cantaloupe/bananas.

PM Snack: Tortilla chips with hummus.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green peppers/green beans/cucumber.

Have a lovely afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures:2025-09-10

Good Afternoon!

We’ve been talking about rhyming words this week in our PREK1 group. Children worked to find the rhyming word for DOG: either FOG or CAT.

K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.

This is a group of kids that loves mixing up experiments.  We created an experimental mixing tray for them this morning.  We set out little cups of water, shaving cream, chia seeds, paint and corn starch.  The kids could use a spoon to try different combinations of the ingredients with open exploration.  The kids had the idea to trade spoonful’s of their own color for spoonful’s of someone else’s.  We got to practice some etiquette as we remembered to ask, then wait for an answer as well as the give and take of trade. 

We had a child lead project begin in the art center today.  One of our friends wanted to make an airplane out of paper.  Folding the paper was a little complicated, so she was willing to try using pieces of paper and straws, then putting them together to make an an airplane.

Other friends continued exploring shapes in other parts of the classroom.  Arthur made a castle using triangles made into squares as well as triangles made into larger triangles!

Breakfast– Kix and fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh strawberries/cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with butter and cinnamon.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-09-09

Happy Tuesday!

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Kix cereal and fresh cantaloupe slices.

Lunch:  Refried beans and shredded Colby-jack cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh cucumber and pear slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and bananas.

Wee Sprout:  Red bell peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-09

Good Afternoon!

We would like to wish Miss Audrey well as us getting married on Wednesday, September 10th and then on her honeymoon.  She will be returning Thursday, September 25th.  While she is away Miss Ashley will cover and Miss Tina will be back to help cover Tuesday –Thursday afternoons for the latter part of the day until close.

This morning Miss Audrey brought out the sheer curtain for us to crawl and walk through.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with our loose part wooden shapes and animals.  Some of us were stacking our shapes together, while others were using their imaginative play skills with the animals.

We then headed outside and spent some time drawing and painting! We started by painting with water on the stepping stones, then some friends moved to the table and drew with chalk. We also explored the log house.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat elbow macaroni with red beans, fresh cantaloupe and green bell pepper slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-08

Happy Monday!

Our PREK1 kiddos kicked off the week by talking about shapes! Each group member came to the sign in board where got a chance to pick a shape, identify it, and then write their name in the shape.

Later on in group, we read ‘One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish’ in PREK1 group. It allowed us to start to talk about rhyming words in a natural way. Friends immediately started raising their hands, sharing examples of rhyming words such as humpty and dumpty!

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.

This morning we explored shapes in a variety of ways.  At the round table, we tried making shapes out of popsicle sticks and clothes pins.  We could make triangles and squares, or we could create our own shapes.  There were a lot of three dimensional ideas as the kids realized they could balance the clothes pins on end.

In the art center, we created paintings using stencils and stamps in the shapes of circles or squares.  Many of us tried both stations. 

At the light table, we found ways to put squares, rectangles and triangles together to create new shapes.  Hannah helped set the shapes out and asked if we could used triangles along with the squares and rectangles so she could make a house.  We thought that was a great idea!

We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with cream cheese and fresh pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded chicken, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh pepper/snap peas/cucumber.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham cracker.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

Have a great day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2025-09-08