Today was a day full of creation. We deliberately fill the Wee Friends environment with a wide variety of materials that become the tools through which friends express their ideas.

In the art room there is always plenty of paper, markers and tape. On any given day our shelves are also filled with other intriguing materials like cardboard, foam pieces, bottle caps, and random material donated from the Purple Porch (for instance, today we received a bunch of lettuce wrappers!)

It is always exciting to see how friends will use these materials in their creations. Today we created cardboard dolls and worked on origami:

Other friends spent the afternoon playing “restaurant”. They showed friends the menu, asked what their order was and then eagerly relayed the information to the “cook” aka Elizabeth, who then drew detailed pictures of the food ordered and cut it out. Here is an example of her asparagus:

This morning Eleanor expressed interest in finding out what robots look like. Our search led us to a special kind of robot, a Roomba, the vacuum robot. Ellie decided to make her own cleaning robot and began to experiment with different types of materials that can sweep: brushes and paintbrushes. We will keep you posted on how this make-your-own-robot project progresses.

Happy Monday! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: WF homemade sweet pickles. Breakfast: Whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese and orange slices. Lunch:  Whole wheat pasta with chicken, orange slices, corn and sweet pickles. Snack: Whole milk yogurt and bananas.