We had a musical morning! We listened to silly songs while playing with pianos, drums, and shakers. Then we sung our own songs and danced!

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that brought in family pictures! Our friends loved them and spent a lot of time today looking through the albums. There were big smiles and happy “mama’s” and “dada’s”. Ruby gave the picture of her cats a big kiss!

Breakfast was Cheerios and oranges. Wee sprouts was mixed vegetables. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs with tortilla, blueberries, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was crackers with cream cheese.

Have a great night!

Amanda

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This morning began with an invitation to explore our colored links. Many children chose to spend time at the table with these materials! An open ended activity like the links allows children to work at their own developmental level. For example, most of our younger friends shook the links around, hearing the loud clacks they made against the tray and feeling the links with their fingers. It’s all about the sensory experience.

Our older preschoolers worked their fine motor skills and figured out how to connect and disconnect the links. For these friends, the links were an opportunity to build and create.

Housekeeping was busy today! Tate spent time cooking, while Lucy had a plethora of animals and eggs to take care of. 

Outside children started their own self-directed projects independently. A group of friends sat on the sidewalk and worked on tearing up sticks to make “little wood chips”. They collected the fruits of their labor in a cup!

In the sandbox, another group of children worked with the large sand bucket, shoveling sand in and out of the container. This job kept them occupied for a long while. There was lots of discussion and conversation about how and where to shovel—practicing social skills through play!

Kindergarten: Today’s kindergarten work was presented during large group. Last week we introduced the concept of ending punctuation and yesterday began talking about verbs. Today we put those concepts together to make some silly sentences! Children randomly chose some verbs and nouns. Then we put in some extra words and punctuation to come up with some silly sentences like “The chocolate screamed for joy.” and “The mom giggled at the stinky cat.” Needless to say, there was lots of laughter during large group time today  

 

Wee Sprouts: Pea pods. Breakfast: Hot wheat cereal with fresh pears. Lunch: Cheesy scrambled eggs in whole wheat tortillas, carrots/peppers, and fresh strawberries/apples. Snack: Homemade popcorn with butter and fresh blueberries.

Link to the photo album: WF 3/16/2016

Hope you get to enjoy the sunshine this afternoon! –Jessica

Our friends ran straight to the slides when we went outside this morning! They never get tired of them!

Anna climbed to the top of the log house. She’s always so proud of doing it all by herself!

Maggie and Franklin had fun playing with a basket of puff balls in the kitchen. Franklin would fill the basket with a few puffs and then laugh as he tipped the basket over and dumped them in his lap. Maggie enjoyed feeling their soft texture and seeing the different shapes and colors.

Breakfast was Corn Chex and bananas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with turkey and cream cheese, strawberries, blueberries, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was crackers and string cheese.

Have a great night!

Amanda

Link to photos: WWF – 2016-03-15

Happy Tuesday!

How our morning investigation got started:

Trays were put out on the table this morning with different magnets ready for exploration!

This got our juices flowing.

So..

A group of peers grabbed clipboards and went around the environment in search of magnetic items! Children marked on their clipboard if certain items were magnetic or not magnetic.

We were interested to see what was magnetic and what wasn’t! We all definitely had our exploration hats on today!

Since it was a nice morning, we decided to do a little weeding. A few friends jumped at the chance to help. As they got leaves and such off the ground, they put it into the yard waste bin.

We were all about the hard work today!

We hope everyone is able to enjoy this beautiful weather today!

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Breakfast: Quaker Oatmeal Squares and strawberries.

Lunch: Turkey and cream cheese tortillas, carrots/snap peas, and oranges.

PM Snack: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon.

Link to pictures: WF 3/15

Please note: Wee Friends is closed March 25th for Good Friday.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Enjoy today’s photos!

Breakfast was whole wheat bagels with cream cheese, blueberries, and strawberries. Wee sprouts was green beans. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, oranges, and green beans. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and raisins.

Have a good night!

Amanda

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We love getting to spend some quality time outside!

The wet sand and slippery slides didn’t stop the Wee Friends from their play today.

Children explored digging, filling and pouring in both the sand and the rocks.

Our literacy focus this week is all about the alphabet and understanding alphabetical order. For our younger preschoolers this looks like identifying letters and talking about the sounds each letter makes! This morning some children gathered in the reading area to hear a story about letters: My X, Y, Z Book.

 

Kindergarten: Today our kindergarteners and older preschoolers were invited to practice FAB K.1.19: Learn and apply knowledge of alphabetical order (first letter) when using a classroom or school library/media center (2006 standard). In order to practice alphabetical order, students connected alphabet cards using links. This was both a literacy and fine motor challenge. Elliott chose to make an “alphabet circle” by connecting the A and Z card!

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese and apple slices. Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce, mixed vegetables, and applesauce/apples. Snack: Organic whole milk yogurt and fresh blueberries.

Link to the photo album: WF 3/14/2016

Happy Pi Day! –Jessica

Ruby and David played with the foam boards and pegs this morning. They both enjoy connecting the pegs together to make towers. After stacking all of his pegs together, David pulled them off one by one to stick in the foam boards.

After lunch, we played with playdough and rolling pins! Ruby enjoyed poking holes in the playdough with her fingers and the end of her rolling pin. Anna and Miss Amanda flattened out Anna’s playdough together. Then Anna tore off pieces of it and offered them to Miss Amanda as cookies!

Breakfast was Kix and strawberries. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with hummus, strawberries, and corn. Afternoon snack was mozzarella string cheese and raisins.

Have a great night!

Amanda

Link to photos: http://1drv.ms/1REAwjh

Today children explored our Easter themed sensory bin that is full of eggs, chicks, baskets and purple fuzz!

Blocks were also a popular option today. Below is a collaboratively built firetruck!

Friends were also invited to help create some new artwork for the open space by the cubbies. We traced each individuals hand, cut it out, and then they were free to decorate their hand in any way they wanted. Throughout this process there was lots of talk regarding hand sizes and we realized that everyone’s hand was quite different!

The final product turned out fabulously! Check it out by the cubbies.

 

Kindergarten: Today we continued our work with punctuation during large group. We went on a punctuation hunt during our story. After every sentence, we marked whether the author used an exclamation point, question mark, or period. It turns out that the characters in My Friend Feels Sad by Mo Williams were very excited; exclamation point won the punctuation hunt!

 

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and grapes. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, carrots/peppers, and bananas/oranges. Snack: Mozzarella string cheese and pretzels.

Link to the photo album: WF 3/11/2016

Have a great weekend! –Jessica

Good Morning!  The preschool classroom will be going nut-free and we are requesting that any food items that are brought into the classroom are also nut-free (including peanut and other nut products.)  We have a friend that has developed a nut allergy and we need to ensure that our classroom is safe. 

The classroom will continue to use no-nut sweet pea butter and I will expand our use of seeds to replace some of the snacks that had nuts. 

Thank you so much for your cooperation!

Tami

I hope you all had a great day! Enjoy the photos!

 

Breakfast was toast with butter and blueberries. Wee sprouts was mixed vegetables. Lunch consisted of whole grain cheesy brown rice with shredded chicken, blueberries, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was raisins and wheat crackers.

Have a good night!

Amanda

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