Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged with loose parts-wooden shapes and animals.  We stacked our shapes and explored the animals and a few of us made the animal sound.  A friends shared she was” building a farm” b for her animals.

Outside, we rode teeter totters, climbed the log house, pushed bikes up the hill and played with balls.

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

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded beef, fresh pineapple and cooked green beans

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt with whole grain graham cracker,

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-10-19

Good afternoon,

This morning, we explored patterns.  In the art center we offered a pattern making stamp activity.  Kids chose different stamps and colors to make patterns on long pieces of paper.  Kids created several types of patterns including AB, AABB and AABBCC.

At the round table, kids explored making patterns with unifix cubes.  They looked through pattern books or created their own. 

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

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh pears

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with red beans/beef, fresh pineapple/kiwi/oranges and fresh cucumbers/cherry tomatoes

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with gram crackers

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans/cherry tomatoes

Have a lovely day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-10-19

Happy Friday!

This mooning we chose our dress up clothes we wanted to wear.

The older friends engaged with wooden counting puzzles in the kitchen.  They placed pegs to match the written number.  Miss Bekah then helped us count the pegs that were placed on each puzzle.

The younger friends engaged in building with waffle blocks.

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

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat bread, fresh banana/pear and cooked butternut squash

Afternoon Smack:  Whole grain Goldfish crackers and mild cheddar sliced cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2026-10-16

Happy Friday!

We used a nonfiction book from the science area to help us with our sign in this morning. We read the book, ‘Underground Homes’, which talked about the various animals that live underground. When we were done, both kindergarteners chose two animals to write or draw that live underground and provide one fact they learned in the story. Did you know Komodo dragons are one of the largest animals to live underground? They can grow up to be ten feet long and eat pigs and deer!

K.RL.2.1: With support, ask and answer questions about main topics and key details in a text heard or read.

In the art center, kids experimented with a variety of painting materials.  They tried using sponges, a loofa, and a mop to make different kinds of marks outside of what they are used to.  This kind of activity encourages the brain to think differently, use creative problem solving and expand ideas.  Kids took very different approaches.  Some created controlled patterns while others used big expressive marks.  This variety of solutions often comes of “process art” where kids have a great deal of freedom to explore creatively.  It is a developmentally rich approach to art in early childhood. 

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh bananas.

Lunch: Ham/cheese on whole wheat bread, fresh apples/bananas/orange slices and fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper/cucumber.

PM Snack: Goldfish and Colby-jack cheese

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-10-16

Happy Thursday!

This morning we moved our bodies around on the Bounce Blocks and textured stepping stones.  Cece walked around carried a baby doll and purse saying, “bye!”.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in the light table with the translucent shapes.  We talked about the names of the different colors and shapes we saw and identified them.

We then headed outside.  We rode bikes down the hill, scooped sand, went down the slide and tossed a ball in the air.

Breakfast: Whole grain corn Chex cereal with fresh pear

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, fresh watermelon and fresh cucumber

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Ritz crackers with peanut butter

Wee Sprout: Red bell pepper

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2026-10-15

Good Afternoon!

We continued to focus on comparison words and specifically dealt with identifying hot and cold items. Our two kindergarten students created their own lists of each, adding four items to each group. Student S had a clear idea of what hot items are, adding dessert, beach, oven, and coffee to her list. Sounds like a splendid vacation!

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

Our daily journal experience adds so much value to our literacy development! A few children have been really focused on perfecting their drawings of people while one of our friends has been fascinated in drawing various countries flags! Lately, he’s been drawing the Argentina flag but today, he surprised us with the Belgium flag. We love when children’s interests make it to their journal page!

We offered a water displacement experiment this morning.  Our kindergartners and older friends have been learning about weight, measurement and making comparisons, so we added a hands-on component.  Kids tried making predictions about what they thought might happen if they added stones to a jar of water.  We talked about how the stones displaced the water as the water rose in the jar.  Kids noticed the bubbled effect of water tension as the water approached overflowing out of the jar, so we got to talk about why this happens.  We also tried removing the stones to see about how much volume the stones occupied inside the jar. 

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

Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh banana.

Lunch: Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh watermelon/pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumbers/tomatoes.

PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter/pepita seeds/raisins.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans/tomatoes.

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-10-15

Good Afternoon!

This morning we painted!  We used a circle sponge brush to spread our red and yellow tempera paint across our papers to create our colorful paintings.  The older friends did their paintings on the easel.

We also engaged in looking at books independently in a variety of areas.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh banana

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh pineapple, cooked green beans and whole grain wheat flatbread.

Afternoon Snack: Refried beans and white corn tortilla chips

Wee Sprouts: Orange bell pepper

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2026-10-13

Good afternoon!

Our kindergarten sign in this morning focused on identifying the highest and lowest unifix cube tower. Each child got three notecards with a variety of number written on it. For each number, they created a unifix tower for that specific number. When they were done with a card, they documented the highest tower number and lowest tower number in their binder.

This activity peaked the interest of several other younger kiddos who explored the cubes at the table! It was a fantastic interest lead activity that allowed children to work on their one to one correspondence skills. We even had a four year old ask, “How do you get to 8?…Oh yeah! You add four and four.”

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

This morning, one of our older friends worked on a project with one of our youngest friends.  They were building a race track together.  Our older friend was very patient with our younger friend, showing him how to build the track.  He even gave words of encouragement saying things like, “that’s a good idea!”  This is a great example of why we love the multi-age classroom.  Younger kids can learn an amazing amount from older peers, not only how to do things, but how to treat others.  Our older friends learn a great deal about teaching and leadership by helping and working with younger peers.  There are benefits for all ages!

At the art center kids explored painting with sponges.  Several kids wanted to experiment with different ways to use these and created multitudes of paintings.  We like to encourage this kind of in-depth exploration and experimentation with materials as it leads to development of higher level thinking skills (creative problem solving, executive planning).  Shown below, Eleanor tried a variety of ways to use marks and make patterns!

PREK2:  This morning, some of our younger friends were reading books about bugs in the science area.  I asked if they would enjoy learning more about them during group.  They were looking at a book about Pill Bugs, so we chose that one.  After the story, kids recalled what they learned.  Older kids were able to recall details, while youngest kids looked at a picture in the story and then were able to recall what was read.

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh watermelon.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with cheese, fresh golden kiwi/bananas/pineapple and fresh green beans/tomatoes.

PM Snack: Cottage cheese with fresh kiwi.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/tomatoes.

Have a great day!

~ Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-10-14

Good Afternoon!

Our kindergarteners kicked off their Tuesday by measuring five different things in our classroom using the tape measurer. When they were done measuring something, they wrote the length down in their binders. When they had measured everything, we talked about what the longest item was as well as the shortest.

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

PREK1 group friends came to the board where they found their name and read the directions. Children either wrote their name by the longest popsicle stick or shortest popsicle stick.

K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more.

At the round table, we offered a scale for kids to explore.  Kids worked as partners.  One friend added something to one side of the scale, and the other friend tried to balance the scale adding items to the other side.  We found that for instance, “One stone weighs the same as seven popsicle sticks, so a stone is heavier than a popsicle stick: We need seven popsicle sticks to equal the weight of one stone.”

PREK2:  This morning one of our younger friends came into school talking about slugs.  He had discovered holes in his pumpkin and this morning found that the holes were made by a slug eating it.  We found some slugs outside in the garden and several other kids became interested as well.  We read the story “A Slugs Life” from the science area for our group story in response to this interest.  After group, we tried to remember one thing we learned from the book about slugs.

…Our PREK2 journal group has been interested in practicing letters during journal time!  What a great trend!

Here are a few more spontaneous projects that got started among groups of friends this morning!

Breakfast: Oatmeal squares cereal with fresh bananas.

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh banana/watermelon and fresh cucumbers/snap peas.

PM Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots/peppers.

Have a wonderful day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-10-13

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged in the corn and black bean sensory table.  We were using a variety of sizes of spoons to scoop up the mixture and pouring it into a cup or back into the table.

While we were waiting for a turn or after finishing in the sensory table we enjoyed swinging on the swing.

While we were outside, we explored and raked the leaves, engaged with a baby doll, cooked in housekeeping, went down the slide, engaged in water play and scooped and poured sand.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Kix cereal and fresh oranges.

Lunch: Hummus on whole grain wheat tortilla, fresh watermelon and cooked broccoli.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagels with butter and fresh bananas.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-10-13