Happy Wednesday!

This morning we cut open our pumpkin.  Miss Bekah scooped out the pulp and seeds from the inside for us to explore with our hands on our tray.  We also talked about the outside parts of the pumpkin, the stem and skin and the color of it.

Then, we went to the habitrail, found our shakers and danced along to “Shake Your Sillies Out.”

Outside, we did lots of raking! Throughout our outside time, many friends used rakes to help the big kids make a big leaf pile.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh watermelon slices, whole grain wheat tortillas and cooked green beans.

Afternoon Snack: Refried beans with whole grain tortilla chips

Wee Sprout: Cucumber

Have a wonderful night!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-11-05

Good Afternoon!

Our PREK1 sign in focused on arrangements of items. We used stars specifically and worked on seeing how many stars were in this configuration but tried not counting them! A few friends were ready for this concept as they identified that each line had three stars and were able to add 3 and 3 together, making six!

K.NS.6: Recognize sets of 1 to 10 objects in patterned arrangements and tell how many without counting.

This morning we explored words and letters in the art center.  We rolled our playdough out on our tray.  Then, we selected a word card.  We tried creating the word with cookie cutter letters on our rolled out play dough.  Some of us created several words or our name while others made “pizza dough”.  It was a well rounded activity :).

Other kids went in their own direction.  One friend was interested in making numbers all the way around her drawing.  We got out the number chart to help.  Later, she said she had more space after ten and wondered how to write more numbers.  We got to talk about adding the number one in front and then counting back up to ten as we go through the “teens”.  It was a great example of an authentic learning experience!

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

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh clementines.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs and cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh tomatoes/broccoli/pepper, and fresh watermelon/apples/clementines.

PM Snack: Hummus with tortilla chips.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh peppers/cucumbers.

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-11-05

Good afternoon! We spent some time in the block area playing with Duplos. Cece, Rowan and a couple other friends took turns taking Duplos out of the basket to connect them.

We also played with baby dolls several times throughout the morning! Rowan brought his baby doll to the ballet bar to look at their reflections together in the mirrors and another friend sat on the rocking chair with her baby doll. Even baby Diana played with a baby doll!

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a sensory experience with playdough.  We squeezed it with our hands and worked to flatten it using a wooden hammer and rolling pin.

Outside, we rode on the teeter totters and bikes. Later on, a few friends decided to explore the vehicle ramps. They picked a couple vehicles and pushed them down the ramp for another friend to catch.

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex cereal with fresh oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat bread with hummus, fresh pineapple and cooked corn

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2025-11-04

Good Afternoon!

We worked with singular and plural nouns for our PREK1 sign in this morning. Children used the context clues around the two options for nouns which was the word ‘two’. Based on the word ‘two’ children knew that the correct noun was eyes, not eye.

K.W.6.1a: Nouns/Pronouns—Writing sentences that include singular and/or plural nouns (e.g. dog/dogs, cat/cats)

This morning we explored different ways to remove seeds from a pumpkin.  We chose from tools like a melon baller, an ice cream scoop, a spoon and tweezers.  After trying each one we thought about which one we liked using the best or which we felt worked the best.  Some kids voted for the spoon while others favored the tweezers.  We baked the seeds in the oven and we are all excited to taste them at snack time!

PREK2:  This morning we read the story “Somewhere Today”.  Afterward, we talked about all the things that people did in the story to help others.  On the board we picked one thing we would like to do from the story that would help others.

Please enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh pineapple.

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh clementines/apples/pineapples, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.

PM snack: Fresh blueberry muffins with roasted pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-11-04

Good Afternoon!

Reminder:  Wee Friends will be closed Thursday, November 27-Friday, November 28 for Thanksgiving break.  Thank you.

This morning we engaged in exploring to build with Magna-Tiles.  We were making small stacks with them.

We then engaged with the silk dress-dress up scarves and danced with them.

We then brought in leaves from outside for us to explore in a tuff tray.  We had tongs and metal trays for us to put them in.   We filled our trays up with leaves and then dumped them back into the tuff tray.

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

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with mild cheddar cheese and marinara sauce, fresh cucumber and fresh apple.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh pineapple slices.

Wee Sprout:  Mini sweet peppers.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-11-03

Happy Monday!

**Wee Friends will be closed Thursday, November 27th and Friday, November 28th for Thanksgiving.

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What a great Halloween parade we had on Friday!  There were so many wonderful costumes and beautiful weather!

Today, we offered an activity requested by a few curious kids who love magnets.  Some friends mentioned they would love to experiment again with the magnets and a compass.  We got out all our magnet science options and let the kids explore openly.  One new discovery was the ability to move the round magnets around the top of a can using a magnetic wand!

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

PREK2: In group today we read the book “10 Little Lady Bugs”  After the story, we each came up to the board to find our name and practice counting using our one to one correspondence skills!

Breakfast– Toasted whole wheat english muffins with butter and cinnamon along with fresh clementines.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce/shredded cheese, fresh pineapple/oranges/grapes, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-11-03

Happy Halloween!

This morning, we looked at various fall and Halloween books together! Cece and two friends looked at books on their own while Miss Audrey and Miss Bekah read to other friends. 

Many friends also enjoyed dressing up and playing with baby dolls in house keeping! Rowan and another friend wore hats and shoes, walking around the room with them and another friend was focused on feeding her baby and putting her baby in a sleep sack.

Then, we engaged in rolling our pumpkin back and forth! Miss Bekah sang a friend’s name and rolled it to them for the friend to roll back. Cece also walked around the pumpkin and baby Diana got to hold the pumpkin too!

Cece and a few of her friends explored some musical instruments! They started with the xylophones, hearing the sounds the bars made and then flipping it over and rubbing the mallet against the ridges to hear that sound.. Cece and Rowan also explored the shakers, picking up and shaking the various shakers.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Hummus, whole grain wheat bread, fresh banana/honeydew melon and cucumber slices.

Afternoon Snack: Homemade pumpkin muffins with whole milk mozzarella cheese stick and pretzels.

Wee Sprout: Cherry tomatoes.

Have a Spooktacular weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-31

Happy Halloween!

We started our day with a baking project.  Everyone helped Miss Ashley make pumpkin muffins for our special Halloween snack!

We enjoyed exploring several art and sensory/imaginative play activities in the classroom.  We worked on pastel Halloween pictures brushed with black watercolor in the art center.  We made witches brew in the tuff tray and enjoyed some imaginative Halloween play with friends. We also enjoyed listening to some Halloween stories!

While we were clearing the garden yesterday one of the kids asked if we could measure the tallest sunflower in the garden.  Today, we brought our measuring tools out with us.  We cut one of the flower stalks and brought it to the deck.  We used our new tape measures to find out how long the sunflower was.  It took the help of several kids holding two tape measures down but we found it was six feet long!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and banana.

Lunch– Homemade english muffin pizzas, fresh honeydew melon/banana, and fresh cucumbers.

PM snack– Homemade pumpkin muffins, fresh clementines, and cheddar cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2025-10-31

Happy Thursday!

We spent some time reading this morning! Miss Bekah helped us pull out the boats and many friends sat in their own boat while she read to them. Rowan also spent some time by himself reading!

Then, we played with the Interstar Connectors! A couple friends practiced pulling them apart by themselves or with Miss Audrey while she held one end.

Then we went outside, riding bikes, playing with sand and rocking back and forth on the teeter totters!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh mandarin oranges

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh apple and fresh cucumber

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Wheat Thin crackers with whole milk cheddar cheese

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green bell pepper

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-30

Good Afternoon!

**PAJAMA DAY TOMORROW!

Our PREK1 friends came to the sign in board this morning where they chose one shape, identified it, and sorted it into the correct group based on the number of sides.

K.RV.2.2: Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories (e.g. colors, shapes, and opposites).

Today became all about numbers.  Several kids started counting the “Halloween pastries” they made out of playdough yesterday as they added one topping for each.  Today we took a jar of those toppings to the round table along with a bowl of numbers and offered further exploration in counting.  We had great questions like “How do I make 11 with numbers?” and “What should I use the 0 for?”.  We even got to try some early addition.

In the science area we used our new tape measures to measure how long everything in the science area was :).  There has been a lot of interest in measuring so we reinforced that interest with some new tools!

Our journals just keep on getting more complex and interesting!  Here are a few from this week!

Breakfast: Puffins cereal with fresh pineapple.

Lunch: Brown rice with shredded turkey,  fresh watermelon/clementines/pineapple, and fresh cucumbers/green beans.

PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and seed mixture.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-30