WF, 4/30/2025 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

We took another farm trip today with five of our PREK1 members! The word of the trip: HELPFUL. These kiddos helped Miss Charlotte with several chores around the farm including scooping manure, feeding several animals (horses, goat, and sheep!), and collecting duck and chicken eggs. We also got to observe several different flowers on our walk back up to the weehicle. We stopped by a Redbud tree and Miss Charlotte shared with us that the buds are safe for people to eat. We’re down to try anything and most of us liked the taste! Smile

We are so thankful for the trips we get to take, especially when we can pitch in around the farm and help out. Our kids found out that it takes a lot to keep a farm running!

Back in the classroom we explored building structures with loose parts both indoors and outdoors. Inside friends found ways to use loose parts building bridges, ramps, teeter-totters, houses and obstacle courses for cars.

One friend worked with another to make a kind of teeter totter. One would place a car on one side and allow the car to tip the teeter totter. Then the other would try to catch the car in a cup. When allowed to openly explore, deeper learning tends to emerge as it did here. Play can coincide with an early investigation into applied physics!

Outdoors friends used playdough and natural materials to build. One friend built a “fireplace” using stones for the hearth, sticks for the chimney and dandelions for the fire. How creative!

Another friend was intrigued with building a pyramid shape both indoors and outdoors. inside he created a “roof”, bending and connecting loose parts at our welcome activity. Outside he made this shape again as a “camp fire” using sticks in play dough. It was fascinating to watch him experiment with his creative thinking and problem solving skills to play out this building interest in several different ways.