Good Afternoon!

**Wee Friends will be closed Friday, April 3 in observance of Good Friday.

To kick off our week, we tackled a pattern problem for our PREK1 sign in. We used color and shape in our pattern. The pattern was an ABCC pattern that children were able to solve immediately!

Later on in PREK1 group, we read ‘What Should Darla Do?’ from our MACK collection. As the reader, we got to choose the choices that Darla made to see how it affected her day. We decided to create a pattern with the choices we made—we did a bad choice, good choice, bad choice. It was great that friends immediately recognized it as a pattern even if it wasn’t necessarily in front of us.

K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule of simple repeating and growing patterns with numbers and shapes.

There was a wide range of building projects made with a variety of materials going on throughout the classroom this morning.  Kids used their creations in imaginative play, building transformers, houses and boats.  This kind of building/imaginative play fuels development in multiple areas simultaneously, which is the kind of play our classroom in designed to foster.

Kids developed fine motor skills and with larger blocks, gross motor.  Kids also developed social emotional/verbal skills as they cooperated, problem solved and shared ideas.  They used higher thinking skills like executive brain function for planning/visualizing ideas plus creative problem solving as they brought creations into reality.  During imaginative play the brain develops neuropathways which strengthen memory, creative problem solving and executive function.  It also promotes cognitive/social emotional development.  Sometimes it can be hard to recognize the vast scope of developmental growth that takes place during this type of play. 

In the art center we offered a squeeze bottle puffy paint art activity.  Kids were interested in paint so we added something novel to experiment with creatively.  Some kids were curious about mixed media artwork so we tried using markers first and then paint.  One friend took this further and drew scribbles all over his paper, then carefully traced the shapes with paint.  It was an interesting take on abstract art that doubled as a great child lead fine motor activity!

We have had several kids interested in musical instruments, so we offered them as another activity.  The accordion is the “end all be all” instrument at this point, which offered a great opportunity to practice sharing something special. 

Breakfast: Whole wheat english muffins with butter and fresh pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with turkey, fresh pineapples/strawberries and fresh cucumbers/carrots.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with fresh pears.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers/carrots.

Have a great afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-03-02