Good Afternoon. I hope you all had an enjoyable Labor Day weekend.

Yesterday was our friend Nesta’s second birthday! We want to wish our oldest in the classroom a VERY Happy Birthday!

With Fall quickly approaching us, we swapped out the rice sensory bin with a fun and festive corn, black bean and corn cob sensory bin.  

The children had a blast using their fine motor skills to pick the small kernels of corn off the cob. They also utilized their hand-eye coordination skills by scooping and pouring the mixture into small cups. 

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with oranges.

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

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans.

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

**Wee Friends will be close Monday, September 7th.

We ended the week on such a fantastic note: engaged learning, memorable activities, and strengthening peer relationships.

Enjoy the pictures from our day.

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Homemade english muffin pizzas (whole wheat english muffin + organic marinara sauce + shredded cheese), fresh watermelon, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Pretzels and block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh peppers/cucumber.

Have a fun and safe holiday weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/4

Good Afternoon.

REMINDER: WEE FRIENDS IS CLOSED MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH IN OBSERVANCE OF LABOR DAY.

The Wee Art Gallery is all completed and we are very happy with our little one’s creations.

During outside play today our friends enjoyed art and reading books. It is a beautiful day and the children LOVED every minute of their outdoor activities. What a GREAT way to end our week.  

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with Peanut Butter and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat Peanut butter sandwiches, mozzarella string cheese, garden fresh tomatoes, pears.

Snack: Pretzels  and block cheese cubes.

Have a fantastic Labor Day weekend, we will see you all on Tuesday!

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

After reading, ‘Leonardo the Terrible Monster’ in K group, I introduced syllables using two different methods: the ‘hand under the chin’ method and the clapping method. Today, we focused on our names and how many syllables each name has. I went first.

We tested out the clapping method first, followed by the chin method! We clapped Min-dy (2 claps) which means that my name has two syllables. For the chin method, children placed a hand on their chin and said my name aloud. They found out that their chin moved twice. We went on down the list and everyone found out how many syllables are in their name.

Possible dinner/bedtime conversation: I challenged all of the K kids to figure out how many syllables are in the names of their family members!

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

In PREK2, each child took a turn drawing a line from an uppercase letter to its lowercase match!

There were tons of creations that were done in our indoor space AND our outside environment. Our imaginations have been so vibrant lately!

Things we heard at lunch:

“Ah thank you for making corn on the cob! It’s the best!”

“I want a second!” (from multiple kids)

“Oh she didn’t eat all of hers…can I finish it?” (the answer to that would be no! )

As you can tell, children were ELATED that we had corn on the cob for lunch today!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh corn on the cob, cherry tomatoes, and fresh oranges/apples/banana.

PM snack– Whole grain crackers and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/3

Good Afternoon.

This morning during outside play two of our friends chose to engage in chalkboard play.

This activity enhances our friends fine motor, hand- eye coordination, and even their sensory skills as they can feel the texture of the chalk and the chalkboard. It was a great time for both.

Then our friend Adrian enjoyed riding on the purple riding dog!

This is a great gross motor activity and an awesome way to get our bodies sin motion.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, corn and banana/pear mixture.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cream cheese,

Wee Sprouts: Red peppers

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Enjoy some pictures from our day.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with fresh pears

Lunch: Farm eggs, whole wheat flatbread, tomatoes/peppers, & pears

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cherry tomatoes & yellow bell peppers

PM Snack: Buttered popcorn & apples

Link To Pictures:

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Have a great afternoon!

Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon.

This morning our friends had a great time with an art/paint project for our Wee Art Gallery!

The finished products are very cool with fun colors to help gear us up for the Fall season.

Adrian was interested in our yellow flowers that we have planted in our garden area. Adrian loves to look and feel the pretty flowers.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat butter toast, tomatoes and strawberries.

Snack: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and oranges.

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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Welcome to September!

Happy birthday, Evie!! Evie celebrated her 4th birthday today! We are so happy we were able to celebrate with her.

FYI: if you’re looking for a fun and new snack at home, Evie brought in frozen watermelon popsicles and our friends LOVED them.

This is how Evie’s mom made them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qJMfuriTI

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Kindergarteners sign in this morning revolved around objects in different arrays: specifically a rectangular array, circular array, and in a line. When Sophia got to the circular array, she said, “Oh wow! I am going to place my finger here so I know where I started.”

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

We read, ‘Here Comes The Big Parade’ in our K group. The book focused on every uppercase and lowercase letter in the alphabet. On each page, that letter was prevalent so we talked not only about the letter but the sound that it makes. Before heading to the journal table, we plugged in some missing letters that were on the chalkboard. We pointed to the letters together and if we came to a blank spot, friends had to figure out who had the missing letter and tape it up in the line.

K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

In PREK2, friends matched numbers to a group of items. For example, Daniel had the number 9 and his job was to find the picture with nine items!

Breakfast– Corn Crunch and fresh pineapple/strawberries.

Lunch– Homemade whole wheat waffles, turkey, fresh oranges, and fresh cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Evie’s birthday treat: frozen watermelon and whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/1

Happy SEPTEMBER!!!! Wow…. its close to being Fall Ya’ll!!  

We had a GREAT Tuesday!

Nesta is so in-tune with our pretend babies and their “needs.” She loves to feed them, burp them, pat their backs to comfort them and snuggle them. She shows such love!!

We had a small water play day. Miss Bekah put a small amount of water in the tin circles with the water animals. Friends had a great time all while getting a little wet!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, carrots and banana and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Monday!

Today, our class for the school year became complete! Ellie joined our classroom today after being over at Wee Wee! We are so excited to have Ellie in our classroom and round out our 2020 crew.

This week, we are kicking off our MACK curriculum. This is our second full year of implementing this curriculum into our daily routine. MACK stands for Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness Curriculum. Our Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness curriculum provides teachers with direct-teaching learning goals in 5 areas over a 12 week cycle. To read up on this ‘newer’ addition to our curriculum, you can read up on it here (plus look at our ever growing list of awesome books!)

https://weefriendskids.com/about-us/program-philosophy/

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This week’s MACK is:

Children will learn that mindfulness involves paying attention on purpose in the present moment with curiosity and kindness. Children will use their sense to describe what they are feeling and seeing in the world around them.

In K group, we read ‘The Listening Walk’ which speaks to listening instead of talking. When you stop talking, you can hear much more going on around you. Afterwards, each friend got the chance to come to the chalkboard and count the numbers of items on a specific paper. For example. Mack came up to the chalkboard and counted 4 diamonds. After he counted the four diamonds, he found the number 4 and tapped it above the picture that displayed ‘4’.

In our kindergarten curriculum, we’ll focus on the following FAB’s this week:

K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

K.NS.4: Perform one-to-one correspondence tasks.

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

In PREK2, Miss Kim’s group drew lines from a picture to the number the picture represented!

The rest of our day revolved around lovely piano sounds, art creations for special people in our lives, and WONDEROUS outside time.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and melted shredded cheese, fresh pineapple/apples, and fresh peppers/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/31