Today was a day filled with preparation, expression, and celebration. Our small group of friends spent their morning preparing our Wee Feast, creating still life art, and talking about all the things in their lives in which they give thanks.

The Wee Feast prep began early with the cleaning and preparing of our holiday bird. Jane and Kai, our older classroom leaders worked cooperatively to cover our chicken with olive oil salt and pepper.

Kai, also helped to prepare the carrots by peeling them.

Today a still life art experience was introduced to the children. Our “Chicken Dance” inspiring Thanksgiving Turkey was placed on the table for children to draw. Discussions were held about the body parts, the shapes and colors of the still model. The children eagerly represented the turkey with great accuracy.

 

 

 

 

 

With the mild temperature and wonderful sunshine, we had a fantastic outside time. The children biked, played in the sand, and played on the slides.

On that note, we had a parent communicate discomfort about her child riding on the bicycles, tricycles, and push cars without a helmet. According to the early childhood safely regulations, three and four wheeled trikes, and bicycles with training wheels do not require a helmet. Therefore we are not requiring children to wear helmets. However, if any parent would like their child to wear a helmet, we will be glad to respect your wishes by storing and making sure your child wears the labeled helmet that you supply.

After our outside time, we came in and enjoyed our Wee Feast. It was delicious!

 

 

 

 

 

Our menu today was:

Breakfast: Homemade Grits and Banana

Lunch: Roasted Chicken, Steamed Carrots, Homemade Mashed Potatoes, & Stuffing.It was seriously yummy!

Kai, Kaitlyn and Laurie are working on baking homemade pumpkin bread for our snack! We will serve the pumpkin bread with a side of raisins.

REMINDER that we are closed this Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Tuition is still due on Friday by 5:30.

Finally, it is more than Wee Thanks that I would like to give to all of you. Rather, Laurie, Melinda and I have an enormous amount of gratitude that all of you have chosen Wee Friends to love, teach, and enjoy your children. It is never taken lightly that each family contributes great amounts of encouragement and support. Daily we receive cool classroom materials that springboard interesting studies, we are blessed with thoughtful conversations about our curriculum, we participate in delightful conversations with you about your children, and we receive the financial support that allows us to have good job benefits, purchase awesome classroom materials, and to continue to make capital improvements to our program. So for this, I give THANKS…