We’re getting ready for Father’s/Grandfather’s Day!

We can’t tell you too much, but we worked with craft cement, cookie cutters and rocks we discovered yesterday on a hike! We’ll be able to share our creations with our grandpas and dads Friday. F.2.9 Use different colors, surface textures, and shapes to create form and meaning. F.2.19 Use a variety of materials (e.g., crayons, paint, clay, markers) to create original work.

We explored how to use familiar toys in new ways. This structure became a ping-pong like game as friends passed a favorite colored magnetic ball back and forth with first a piece of rail road track and then a magnetic rod. F.2.4 Integrate a variety of educational concepts in games. F.1.3 Manipulate objects by throwing, catching large balls with two hands, striking and swinging. F.6.5 Find an indirect way to obtain an object. F.6.6 Discriminate between object that is pulled apart and one that is put together.

All the Wee Friends love playing with water, particularly the outside water fountain. Today, they filled up measuring cups and baby bottles and experimented with mixing and pouring sand and water. They also created sand structures with the wet/dry sand. F.3.1 Participate in activities using materials with a variety of properties (e.g., color, shape, size, name, type of material). F.3.2 Investigate and talk about the characteristics of matter (e.g., liquids and solids, smooth and rough, bend-not bend).

For lunch we served cheese tortellini and whole wheat pasta with white sauce, corn and cantelope/grapes.

A quick note from Tami: Parents when you come into Wee Friends and when you leave please make sure you are closing and locking both the top and bottom locks on the front door.

Have a great day.