Parent Reminders:
- Please remember, next week, to bring in two full changes of clothes for your Wee Friend! In the summer months, we water play almost everyday and we want to make sure everyone has a change of dry clothes. Thank you so much!
- We are closed this Monday, Memorial Day, May 28th.
- The Garden Growing Committee is looking for more tomato plants. If you are interested in donating a starter, please bring it to Wee Friends and we will get it planted!
- Each morning, we lather up all of our friends with a thick layer of sunscreen. Please feel free to bring in sunscreen for your child as we will go through our remaining stock pretty quickly.
As we’ve studied the earth this week, volcanoes have been the sustained area of interest! Lisa and Mel had the great idea to take our Paper Mache globes, insert a plastic cup in the top and create our own volcanoes! By combining baking soda and vinegar, friends explored eruption after eruption!
We decided to spend the rest of the morning outside! We set out several tubs: some filled with cool sudsy water and Little People, and the others with blocks of ice.
One ice block would not come out of the plastic container. Kai, Nate, Alexandra and Finn had a lengthy discussion about how to help it along. Kai and Marat made the observation that when it melted it would become water and fill up the plastic container it was stuck in.
When Lisa added rags, friends flocked to the tubs and began cleaning madly! Then came the dust mops and friends, literally, cleaned backyard surfaces for an hour.
We read books under the shade of Wee Wee’s tree and found a cool spot under the bush near the WF plastic playhouse. We rode bikes and Cassie listened to her MP3 player!
We enjoyed Wee Sprouts (cucumbers) on the porch and played house in the sandbox.
Parent/Child Communication Starters:
- What happens when you pour vinegar on the baking soda (white powder)?
- What are the four layers of the earth?
- When you choose to share a bicycle or book or marker with a friend, how does it make you feel? Happy? How does it make your friend feel?
Breakfast was oatmeal and banana slices and lunch was farm fresh egg casserole, fruit salad and corn.
Have a terrific long weekend! See you Tuesday, May 29th!