Good Afternoon!

Several friends began their morning looking at books on the reading steps.

We then listened to and acted out the motions to the See The Bunnies Sleeping? song.

We then listened to Miss Bekah read a book called What Makes A Rainbow? by Betty Swartz.  As you read the page of each color, a piece of ribbon comes out that matches the color on the page until you have all of the colors of the rainbow. We then headed into the kitchen to draw with markers that Miss Bekah taped together to draw with all of the rainbow colors simultaneously.

We then headed outside to enjoy the warmer weather and engage in our favorite activities.

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh cantaloupe, fresh mini bell peppers and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and whole grain wheat tortillas.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-23

Good afternoon!

Our friends engaged with Magna-Tiles, trucks and Little People at the light table this morning. They worked on stacking tiles together to make a tower or tried to build a house. They placed their characters in their houses or on trucks.

Miss Bekah got out the Climb & Play Soft Blocks for our friends to climb on while they waited for their turn at the light table. We practiced our balance skills by walking on them. It was a great activity for our gross motor muscles.

We then headed outside to enjoy the mid-50s weather! Our friends engaged in various activities, but especially enjoyed exploring the sensory table with dough, nature items and rocks.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh apple slices.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat tortilla with peanut butter, 1/2 slice Colby-Jack cheese, cooked corn and fresh clementine oranges.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh pear slices.

Wee Sprout: Mini sweet peppers.

Have a beautiful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-22

Good Afternoon!

Our Tuesday PREK1 sign in focus continued on our weather theme from yesterday! Each child pulled a card from the bottom of the board that had an activity or weather pattern written on it and they sorted it into the correct season.

Science: K.3.5 Describe and give examples of weather changes and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.

In PREK1 group, we read a fiction story about storms! We talked about the senses we use when thunder and lightning happen. We’ve had a lot of storms lately that children were able to pull from when they shared personal storm experiences!

We’ve been having great journal experiences where children are really focused on portraying a specific idea. Several friends are exploring kid spelling, hearing the exact letter sounds and writing those sounds down. A few older peers are quick to help their friends sound out more challenging sounds such as ch- and sh-!

After we drew the birds nest yesterday morning, there was a lot of “nest” talk among the kids.  We got on the topic of how birds build nests.  We talked about different materials that they use and how some use mud to help hold their nests together.  Todays nest building project was born of that discission.  First, we observed what the nest looked like and what it was made of.  We offered a nest building station with play doh, sticks and grass.  Some of the kids noticed that there were dry leaves in the real nest so we search the play area to find some to add to our nest building station.  We used stones as pretend eggs to put into our nests.  Everyone enjoyed the activity!  While we worked through the activity, we built on our observational skills, executive planning, fine motor and focused attention skills.

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!

PREK2:  During group we read the book “An Egg is Quiet”.  We looked at the book along with its companion “A Nest is Noisy”.  One of our group members asked “Were these books written by the same author?”.  A question like that coming from a young four year old is like music to a teacher’s ears!  The books were in fact written and illustrated by the same people.  What amazing observational skills and vocabulary!

Our question today was, “What do you see during warm and cold weather?”.  We sorted our words into the correct categories on the board.

Breakfast– Kix cereal with fresh cantaloupe/strawberries.

Lunch– Turkey on whole wheat bread, fresh banana/pears/oranges, and fresh broccoli/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/carrot/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-22

Good Afternoon!  We hope everyone had a great Easter Weekend!

This morning we listened to Miss Ashley read several of our teacher books that are songs.  A friend sang along while she read it.  We also acted out the See The Bunnies Sleeping song.

We then headed into the kitchen for a sensory experience with shaving cream.  We drove cars and a boat through it to see the different size of tracks that each one made in our cream.

We then headed and engaged in a variety of activities.  Charlotte read books from the book shelf on the rocking chair, Eleanor and another friend built with the Inter Star Connector blocks and Clark used his imaginative play skills to play with the beanie animals at the table.

Cece was busy rolling around the classroom to where she wanted to play and engaged in her activity table.  Today we heard Cece say her first words.  She said “mama” and “dada.”  

We then headed outside to engage in a variety of our favorite activities.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with black beans, fresh cantaloupe slices and cooked green beans.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-21

Happy Monday!

We kicked off our week by starting a conversation about what type of weather we prefer! Each PREK1 child came to the sign in board where they chose what type of weather was their favorite.

Later on in group, we read ‘A Child’s Calendar’ which goes through each month as well as the weather, clothing, and various activities associated with each month. We worked together to place several seasonal cards onto the correct season mat. We had four mats with each of the seasons. Pictures such as trees with brightly colored leaves, a family building a snowman, and children holding a lemonade stand were sorted onto the correct mat.

Science: K.3.5 Describe and give examples of weather changes and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.

This morning the kids discovered their beans began to grow over the long weekend.  Most of the beans had sprouted a “radicle”, the first emergence of the root.  We learned about what we were seeing as we observed and talked about how the beans had changes.  We each drew what we saw and described what we saw in our journals.  Some kids dictated their observations and others wrote themselves using kid-spelling. 

We have been learning about observational drawing as we have been working on our “Bean Journals”.  Today, we took those new skills to the outdoor art table.  We acquired a robins nest which had one egg in it.  The kids practiced drawing what they saw using markers and water color.  Several kids who made multiple pictures, slowly drew more and more accurate drawings of the nest and egg.  It was great to watch their learning process unfold!  This kind of activity builds attention, focus and awareness.

Breakfast– Whole wheat english muffins with butter and fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-21

Good Afternoon!

We ended our week deciphering between two phrases: plants NEED and plants HAVE. Each PREK1 friend chose a card from the bottom of the sign in board and they had to determine if it was something that a plant has or something that a plant needs such as leaves, roots, water, or air!

Science: K.4.2 Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different.

We enjoyed some holiday themed activities at the art center today.  We decorated paper eggs in different ways.  We could used strips of patterned paper to make designs on our eggs.  We could also make a “bean box painting” to decorate a paper egg.  We added our egg to a box filled with beans and paint.  we shook the box and the bouncing beans painted our eggs!

We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Kix cereal with fresh pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh pears/mango/pineapple, and fresh carrots/cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Granola, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, banana/pear.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot/pepper.

Have a wonderful Easter weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-17

Good Afternoon!

It was pajama day today! Enjoy a picture of all of our friends dressed in their comfiest jammies.

We started our morning by marching with rhythm sticks along to the song “Tap Your Sticks” by Hap Palmer.

We then headed into the kitchen for a loose parts activity with miniature farm animals and wooden shapes. Our friends stacked their shapes to make towers and identified the farm animal they had on their tray.

We explored object permanence boxes with Miss Bekah and worked on placing a ball or coin into a hole or slot and watching it reappear in the drawer  tray.

We made our way outside to enjoy the beautiful morning and to take advantage of the warmer weather.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios cereal and fresh mango slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh blueberries and cooked broccoli.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat Ritz crackers with peanut butter and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprout:  Orange bell pepper.

Have a fantastic Easter weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-17

Happy Sunny Wednesday!

We began our day by Going On A Bear Hunt around the circle with our stuffed animals.

Cece engaged with the indoor snowballs while Eleanor looked for a book to engage with on the reading step.  A friend engaged with the pop-up people toy.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in the light table with the translucent beads and plastic eggs.  We were busy scooping the translucent beads up using our plastic egg halves or with our hands.  We noticed that the light would also filter through the plastic eggs.  Cece was given plastic eggs to explore and she was tapping hers together.

We then bundled up and went outside to enjoy some sunshine and fresh air, engaging in our favorite activities.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh strawberries/blueberries.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, cucumber slices, fresh pineapple slices and whole grain wheat tortilla.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus and white corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-16

Good Afternoon!

**With our short week, we’re offering a pajama day tomorrow!

One of our favorite topics to talk about is FOOD! We integrated that interest into our PREK1 sign in activity today which taught us a great deal. A few younger peers who were watching shared, “But we buy food at the grocery store!”

This allowed us to explore HOW food gets to the grocery store. Children each chose a card at the bottom of the sign in board that had a food written on it. They had to place their word into the correct category based on how that food grows: on a tree, on a vine, or in the ground through a root!

Several friends were eager to share that they’ve been apple picking! Another child said, “I’ve picked blueberries off of a bush.”

Science: K.4.2 Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different.

Today we made our first entry in our “Bean Journal”.  We added our name to the cover and kid spelled “Bean Journal” if we were able.  Inside we made an observational drawing.  We talked about how observation means looking very closely at something.  When we make an observational drawing, we draw only what we see.  Before we began, we talked about what physical characteristics we noticed such as color, size, shape, and texture.  We looked at how many beans we had in our bag.  One friend noticed that there was a “small hole” in his bean as he looked at it.  We talked about how this part is where the root and first leaves will emerge from.  This was very exciting for him!  Our oldest friend made an observational drawing of her entire bag with seeds inside.  She noticed every detail including her name spelled backwards since the plastic bag was upside down.  She drew it this way on her paper.  That is some higher level ability in the area of observation at this age!

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!

PREK2: During group today we read “Bunny My Honey”.  We talked about the different attributes of rabbits and chickens.  At the end of group we picked a word from the basket.  We decided weather the attribute belonged to a rabbit or a chicken.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh snap peas/cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Hummus with corn chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cucumber/carrot.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-16

Good afternoon!

Our friends started off their morning by building with hollow blocks or sitting on them.

We then made our way into the kitchen to paint with circle sponge brushes. We watched the colors mix on our papers and pointed out the difference between the big circle marks and the smaller circles. They all turned out so beautiful!

We then headed back into the classroom  after we finished painting to engage in several other activities. We worked on connecting waffle blocks, explored the baby animal Touch & Feel cards, pieced together a bear puzzle, or built with our Mix-and-Match magnetic animals.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat flatbread with refried beans and shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh cantaloupe and cooked green beans.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh blueberries.

Wee Sprout: Mini sweet peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-15