WF, 5/22/2025 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

Throughout the week, our PREK1 group has been talking about calendars and all that calendars entail and one of the ways that we constantly insert calendar words into our day such as days of the week is through the food that we serve at school. We inevitably hear the question, “What’s for lunch today?”, within the first five minutes of our day! Majority of our kids know that on Mondays, we have pasta or that on Thursday, we have rice. Our kids are so invested in the food that we serve, we figured it’d be a great way to authentically connect food to the days of the week.

This morning our older kids worked on a “Lunch Days of the Week Menu”. Everyone who was interested and able made a menu of our school lunches for each day of the week. They used their kid-spelling to write each day of the week and what food was offered on that day. Younger kids worked in pairs with older kids. This way, the older kids could help show younger ones how to sound out and write letters. This is also a great way for older kids to solidify what they have learned.

Everyone who made a menu helped set up the round table for a pretend lunch. The kids set out cups, plates, and spoons at six place settings. Younger kids “came to lunch” while older kids who worked on the project, served. We served pasta, ham and cheese sandwiches, scrambled eggs, rice and PB sandwiches. The meals were served with “peppers/cucumbers” for the wee sprouts plus “strawberries/apples” for the fruit. Activities like this teach kids writing, phonetic spelling, cooperation, and the opportunity for creative imaginative complex play.