WF, 5/8/2024 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed on Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day.

We had another lovely morning at the farm for our six oldest kids! We started out doing some work to help Ms. Charlotte. We helped her move the chicken tractor to a new place with fresh grass to eat, then we helped shovel manure :). It was hard work! We spent some time doing some life drawings of the animals and plants we saw at the farm. Adrian drew the chickens. He loved seeing them again! Katherine drew the farm dog. Nesta and William drew the big black and white rabbit along with some horses. Nesta voiced that she was very proud of her horse drawing! She said it looked just like the horse she was looking at! One of our friends felt it would be too hard to draw an animals so we looked around until we found something she felt she could draw…the grass. As she drew the grass she added flowers, the sky, clouds, the sun…and then some animals. She could draw a lot more than she thought!

Because of all the activity at the farm today, we didn’t get to the woods. Hannah voiced a little crossly that “there was really no need to wear those jeans!”. We thought of something we could do to make it worth the jeans. We took an off road walk through a field of tall flowers, winding our way down to the pond! Everyone loved off road walk and some said it was their favorite part!

At the pond we spent some time looking and listening. We heard bullfrogs in the lily pads. Then some swallows flew down and drank from the pond. The kids were excited to see that since they dip down and take sips while in flight. We looked down into the water over the dock and saw seaweed, a pond strider and some duck weed. We also got to talk about balance dividing our weight evenly on both sides of the dock.

Back at Wee Friends, we went outside to enjoy the awesome weather! Our friends love exploring the log area at the back of the yard. It allows us to explore more risky play while also engaging in heavy lifting or a calm quiet space: it’s multi-use!

Children took turns at the art table outside working with paint dotters! Not only did we get to use our artistic side while outdoors but we also got to take a break in the shade. Some friends chose to use specific colors and place them in a certain order while others goal was to use every color and dot them in a random fashion on their paper.