It’s been a happy, busy day at Wee Friends!

We have a new camera and are still making computer program adjustments so that we can include photos of our daily activities! Thanks for being patient with us as we work out the kinks….

Many different interests were being explored in our classroom today. A few older friends have expressed interest in airplanes and other flying machines. To support their play, we created a pilot’s briefcase filled with a variety of airplanes and jets, a pilot’s journal with various colored pencils, a few library books about airplanes/flight and a felt board airplane matching game. Friends matched like airplanes and like numbers, 1-4.

Many of our friends are still exploring the lives of bears! Today, we incorporated a new cave: remember last winter when we made a life sized mitten (king sized bed sheet sewn together!) to play in as we read Jan Brett’s The Mitten? We pulled it out today and pretended it was a cave. Melinda gathered props and created a puppet play of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Friends listened intently and applauded when it was over!

Paulina led friends outdoors to plant seeds and pick tomatoes. She brought with her trays with white paper and red markers. After harvesting MORE TOMATOES!!! friends gathered on the deck to write about their experiences.

One of our toddlers is very interested in crickets. We all gathered in the music area to listen to/dance to/sing to and have conversations about crickets chirping in the night (soundtrack). Paulina read The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle. We discovered how crickets chirp and we rubbed our hands together and created a cricket chorus! The book has two repetitive sentences and an older friend shouted out these lines when it was time.

For lunch we served WF cucumbers, corn-on-the-cob (thank you Alexandra G.!), bananas and whole wheat pasta with chicken.

Have a great day!