Good Afternoon! We hope you all enjoys some pictures from our day!
We can’t wait to see you all at conferences tomorrow!!
Breakfast: Cheerios with fresh oranges and pineapple.
Lunch: Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh cantaloupe/banana/pineapple, and green beans/cucumber.
PM Snack: Trail mix with pumpkin/sunflower seeds/raisins/granola.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers/pepper/green beans.
Have a great day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2025-02-20
Good Afternoon!
This morning we marched and tapped our rhythm sticks to Ants Go Marching.
We then headed into the kitchen to paint with dot markers. Instead of sitting in chairs we stood at the table working our gross motor muscles as we painted. We marched, hopped, turned around and then made a dot and wiggled our hips while filling our papers full of colorful dots.
We then brought down or drums to make a beat. We listened to Its Raining, It’s Pouring and made a pitter patter sound like rain drops with our pointer fingers. We also made a fast, loud beat for the thunder part of the song.
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh cantaloupe slices, cooked peas and whole grain wheat bread.
Afternoon Snack: Refried beans, whole grain wheat tortilla and fresh cantaloupe slices.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber.
Have a wonderful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-19
Good afternoon!
This morning several friends were interested in making lists. We suggested the option of using a clipboard to gather information around the classroom and create a class list. The kids decided to ask about food. Some chose to ask what everyone’s favorite foods were in the class. Others chose to ask which of three fruits was their favorite and tally the results. Overall, the kids had a great time practicing counting, writing, tallying, and gathering information in the form of play!
We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh pineapple.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortillas, fresh pineapple/oranges/green apples and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM Snack: Hummus with tortilla chips.
Wee Sprouts: Carrots and cucumbers.
Have a great afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2025-02-19
Good Afternoon!
The theme for our morning was babies and bean bags. Our friends engaged with their baby dolls and gave them bottles. Other friends danced with bean bags to the Beanie Bag Dance song.
We then made our way to the kitchen to play with Magna-Tiles on the light table. Our friends stacked the tiles to make towers; Charlotte made a tower that was taller than her! We also identified the colors of the tiles we were using.
After we were done with the activity in the kitchen, we headed back to the classroom to engage in gross motor play on the TinyTurf step-and-slide. Our friends took turns going up the steps and sliding down the slide.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios cereal and fresh mandarin oranges.
Lunch: Chicken avocado salad, whole grain wheat flatbread, cooked green beans, fresh mandarin oranges/red grapes.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.
Wee Sprout: Roma tomatoes.
Have a wonderful evening and stay warm!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-18
Good Afternoon!
Mealtime is always a topic at school. Friends come into school in the morning and often ask, “What’s for lunch today?”. We used the mealtimes of our day to talk about sorting and how the order of which thing occur are important. PREK1 children took the mealtimes breakfast, AM snack, lunch, PM snack, and dinner and sorted them into the order that they occur each day.
Later on in PREK1 group, we read ‘Croc Around the Clock’ which is a story about time and at what times during the day specific things happen, such as lunch! After we finished, children talked about the clocks that they have in their house such as clocks on the wall shaped like a circle while others shared that they have a clock on their microwave or oven.
K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
There were several donations of recycled materials this morning, so our kids got creative building three dimensional artwork! Paige built “a secret hide out with a swimming pool and slide”. Katherine built a dinner table complete with tiny three dimensional chairs, a pot of food in the center of the table made with paper cut out’s and individual place settings drawn onto a paper table cloth. Ryan made an ‘open-upper’ as he described it. He said it was a place for lots of people. He made paper cut outs of people which he put inside! We also had a swimming pool complete with a swimmer all made from a box. The streamer across the middle is a safety rope for the swimmer to grab in the event of an emergency. Wow.. what amazing abilities these kids have to materialize complex ideas! The space for this to happen is exactly what our program is intended to foster.
There is a group of friends who enjoy making “traps” in our classroom. We introduced an open ended activity to find ways to use rubber bands and fabric loops to spark more imaginative play. Some did make traps. Others made dresses, shoes and saddles for the animals. The kids had a great time experimenting and enjoyed working together in groups to play and problem solve.
PREK2: In group today we tried a calming activity, slowly tracing our hands and counting our fingers. We read the story “123 to the Zoo”. The older kids have been talking about keeping track of time in different ways so we talked about yesterday, today, and tomorrow in the context of lunchtime. This is a time of day that is very relevant to all of us! Each friend took a piece of paper and sorted it according to what lunch we had yesterday, today, or what we will have tomorrow.
Breakfast– Puffins cereal with fresh banana.
Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/pears/grapes, and fresh broccoli/pepper/snap peas/carrots.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.
Wee Sprout– Fresh broccoli/pepper/carrot/snap pea.
Have a wonderful night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-18
Good Afternoon!
Everyday during PREK1 group, we complete a calendar activity. Each week, a group member gets to be ‘mat guard’ which gives them two responsibilities. The first responsibility is they have to make sure everyone’s mats are rolled up nicely before they put them away. The second responsibility is crossing off the day on the calendar. We all say the date aloud. So for example, today we said, “Today is Monday, February 17th 2025.”. Before we say the date aloud, I ask questions like, “What number comes after 16?” or “What year are we in?”. These questions are age appropriate and help children understand what calendars are used for and also for myself to authentically gage where children are at developmentally by their answers or understanding.
For sign in today, each group member came up to the board where they signed under their birth month!
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
PREK2: In group today we read the story “Leonardo the Terrible Monster”. We each remembered something that happened in the story after the story was done. We made a class list of our recollections. We also practiced rainbow and tire breath. We focused on how slowly we could do each breathing exercise.
We hope you enjoy some pictures from our day!
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh pears.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef, fresh pears/pineapple/banana, and fresh broccoli/carrots/snap peas.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh blueberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/broccoli/carrots/pepper.
Have a lovely night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-17
Good Afternoon!
We began our morning sitting in our plastic blocks, a BounceBlock or our chair to listen to Miss Tina read teacher books.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage in snow play. We talked about the feeling of the snow on our hands and several friends shared it was “cold.” Miss Bekah asked if it is cold, where do you think I got it from? A friend thought a minute before replying, “outside.” We then were busy scooping with our shovels, using our ball scoops to make snowballs, our trucks to drive in it and make tracks in the snow and our Little People to sit, slide down the snow or sit in one of the trucks.
Cece gave nice big smiles as she played with the activities on her table.
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with buttery spread and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh mandarin oranges and cooked broccoli.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.
Wee Sprout: Green bell peppers.
Enjoy your evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-17
Happy Valentine’s and Pajama Day!
This morning we brought out our heart shaped pegboards to lay on the floor in the habi-trail area to play Ring-Around-The-Heart. We then made a path with our red BounceBlocks and textured stepping stones to walk down.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage in shaving cream play. Miss Bekah added red food coloring to it to make make it red/pink for Valentine’s Day! We enjoyed mixing it around on our tray with our hands.
We then passed out our Valentine’s cards to all of our friends.
Cece enjoyed exploring a textured heart bean bag on her mat.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh strawberries.
Lunch: Hummus on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh cantaloupe/pineapple slices and cooked green beans.
Afternoon Snack: Homemade vegan strawberry muffins, fresh strawberries and mozzarella cheese stick.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber.
Have a great weekend!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-14
Happy Valentine’s Day!
We all enjoyed special activities around the classroom as we celebrated valentines with friends. We worked on a colored sand and glue art project, explored a “pink foam water table”, and made strawberry muffins! The celebration continued with a special lunch of English muffin pizzas topped with cheese hearts! Everyone enjoyed a turn to pass out valentines to all of their friends. The kids are all excited to take home their valentines bags at the end of the day!
Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh blueberries.
Lunch: Homemade english muffin pizzas, fresh peppers/cucumbers, and fresh pineapple/cantaloupe/grapes.
PM snack: Wee Friends made strawberry muffins along with colby jack cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh broccoli/cucumbers.
Have a great weekend!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-14
Good afternoon on this snowy day!
Our friends started their morning by engaging in dress up. They all picked out a few accessories like hats, purses and dress shoes. Our friends use their imaginative play skills to pretend that they are heading to the store, school, or wherever they imagine by saying “bye” and then walking around the classroom with their dress up on.
We then made our way to the kitchen to play with Oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid made by mixing cornstarch and water. We added pink watercolor to dye our mixture, along with red glitter and sequins to create a Valentine’s Day theme. The mixture sparked our friends’ curiosity as they watched it become a liquid when they picked it up and let it run down their arms.
Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal Squares cereal with fresh pear.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, cooked peas and fresh clementine oranges.
Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds and Wheat Thins crackers.
Wee Sprout: Green bell pepper/Cucumber.
Have a beautiful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-02-13
