Happy Tuesday and thanks for your flexibility this morning!

Our late start created a mellow Tuesday. Friends gravitated toward their areas of interest and we followed along, supporting their work, play and creative visions as they unfolded.

The creation of salt dough began some friend’s day. 

One friend began drawing and others soon followed.

“I did it!” exclaimed Ellie as she traced her own hand.

Elliott began drawing and then moved to scissor work, collecting all his clippings into an envelope. Other friends were excited about envelopes and asked to work with them as well.

Marina and Sophie worked hard at creating a house and a castle. Building it, crashing it down and rebuilding continue to inspire friends to stick with their work and rebuild their creation in a new way.

Lisa and several Wee Friends studied math fundamentals: identifying numbers, counting, and stacking caps, sorting and creating color patterns.

Jada and Ellie listened to Counting Kisses by Karen Katz.

The book is about family members who blow (and count) heart kisses to a wee baby. After we listened to the book, we set out a felt board and our own felt kisses.  As we counted hearts, we practiced the idea of adding/subtraction by adding a heart one at a time and counting up. We did the same as we took away hearts, one at a time.

In post lunch large group, our older friends have begun work on individual custom made alphabet boards. The first step was to write all the uppercase letters on a square. They used yesterday’s project: sand block alphabet etchings, as a reference.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers and pea pods. Lunch: Turkey on whole wheat bread, bananas and pea pods. Snack: Yogurt and orange slices.

Have a great day!