Good Afternoon.
YAY!!!! with the gorgeous sunshine and warmer temperatures, we were finally able to head outside and play! We had some VERY happy friends. 
Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and banana.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, broccoli and apples.
Snack: Whole wheat Triscuit crackers and Pumpkin seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.
Have a nice night.
Marty
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Good Afternoon.
We were all very excited to go into he kitchen and manipulate the puzzles.
We have many to choose from but the larger 24 piece ones were a hit with most of our friends today. Letters, numbers and crayons/shapes.
we engage in the larger pieced puzzles we stimulate our minds more and are more challenged. At times we need help, but overall friends find these puzzles to be just right!
We borrowed the large peg board from the WF classroom today and it too was a HUGE success!!!! Hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills are being put to the test! We also worked on sharing the pegs and understanding that three friends could use the peg board at the same time with ease!
Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal with honey and pears.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with cheese, cucumbers and banana.
Snack: Whole wheat Ritz Crackers with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a nice night.
Marty
LINK TO PICTURES: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtTCDmdhjIulj4hlQl1wbI7oDJ8lEw?e=pb3DQK
Hello!
Our morning revolved around involved and engaged play. Most of the time, children were in groups of two or more either reading, doing puzzles cooperatively, or creating at the art table.
Some of these pairings were made up of children who aren’t the same age—showing us exactly why multi-age classrooms work so well. Chloe used her knowledge of books and literature to read to Evie, who is a younger friend. They bond in the reading area because they both have an immense love for stories.
Enjoy a few pictures from the rest of our morning!
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh raspberries.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh apples/oranges, and fresh peppers/cucumber.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and fresh raspberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a fantastic evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/4
Good Afternoon!
**It is that time of year when we need updated shot records! We would very much appreciate it if the shot records could be turned in by our winter break (Friday, December 20th). Thank you!
Enjoy the pictures from our Tuesday!
Breakfast– Quaker Oatmeal Squares with banana.
Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh apple/grapes, and fresh cherry tomatoes/snap peas.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cherry tomatoes.
Have a great evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/3
Good Afternoon.
Today we engaged our minds in water color painting. We used many different colors of paint and made wonderful creations.
We utilized our fine motor skills as we held the brushes in our hands and used our cognitive skills to get an understanding of the different colors that we used.
Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with Apples.
Lunch: Whole grain tortillas with hummus, tomatoes and apples.
Snack: Whole wheat bagels with peanut butter.
Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes.
Have a wonderful night.
Marty
LINK TO PICTURES: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtTCDmdhjIulj4dl364VaFUeHfVoQw?e=uorTk2
Happy Monday and happy December!
**Wee Friends will be closed Monday, December 23rd through Friday, January 3rd. Thank you!
In K/PREK1, we dove into the FAB for the week:
Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.
Group was started by answering the question: “What do we use a map or globe for?”
The following answers were shared:
“You can see where you’re going!”
“We can see states.”
“Places like Hong Kong.”
We read ‘I Am Planet Earth’ which identified different things that are on the Earth. For example, people, cities, towns, and states. This lead into our web that we filled in. Friends shared different states that they have knowledge of. We quickly filled up our web with eight states!
In PREK2, children identified a map with different items such as couch, bedroom, and dresser! They talked about what a map is used for which lead into the activity!
We came in today to find new activities! The first one children dove into was the new peg board.
Children took turns at the peg board, making difference creations such as a giraffe! What a great fine motor activity that’s interactive and colorful!
Our next exciting addition to our classroom are new, advanced 60-64 piece puzzles! Most of our older friends have conquered the 48 piece puzzles. However, the larger puzzles offered more of a challenge!
An art table activity was offered this morning. Children painted a piece of aluminum foil and after they were done, they took a piece of white paper and made a print of their creation.
Mack and Sophia carried buckets up to the top of the sandbox and flashed their muscles, sharing “We’re so strong!”
Tami had posted this article a few weeks back on the Wee Friends Facebook page and thought I’d share it here. The topic is independence and how it pertains to children.
“The truth is that independence is a pure good even if it doesn’t necessarily lead to pure good. But without it, without the freedom to make mistakes, to learn the often hard lessons that lead to the internalization of traits like courtesy and caution and thrift, children are left to learn them later in life, as teenagers or young adults, when the consequences of their inevitable mistakes are likely to be far more dire than they would have been had the mistakes been made, had the learning happened, when they were children.”
“Better, I think, if we really want our children to grow up to be their own people, free, capable, autonomous, and independent, we must allow them to experience freedom from an early age, to be allowed to make the mistakes necessary for learning what freedom is really all about. We must let them fall down and to be there to pick them back up, because that is the single most important lesson we can learn through freedom: independence means nothing unless it’s balanced with interdependence.”
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/you-want-your-children-to-be.html
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh banana/grapes.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded turkey and butter, fresh pears/banana, and fresh carrots.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with honey oats.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a lovely evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/2
Happy December. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Please Note: WF will be closed for our annual two week vacation from December 23rd to January 3rd. We will re-open January 6th, 2020!
Today we would like to extend a very warm welcome to the Smyth family. Our new friend Rowan is two years old and makes a great addition to our classroom. We look forward to watching Rowan grow and achieve many of her milestones.
We thought it would be an awesome idea to utilize our fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills and color in our Wee Wee journals.
We enjoy coloring with either markers or crayons but we must admit, markers are our favorite. 
We work hard on holding the marker’s/crayons in our hands to make markings on our papers. We also work hard on getting the writing objects from the marker block to our papers then back into the marker block once we have finished coloring.
Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and clementine’s.
Lunch: Whole wheat butter pasta with shredded chicken, corn and clementine’s.
Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Peas.
Have a wonderful evening.
Marty
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Happy Wednesday!
Please enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and Apples.
Lunch:Farm fresh scrambled eggs with cheese, whole wheat pumpkin waffles, corn and clementine’s.
Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with hummus.
Wee Sprouts: Corn.
Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday, we will see you all on Monday!
Marty
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Happy Wednesday!
We stress sharing our emotions and feelings: good and bad.
Today, we focused on thankful and grateful feelings.
As a teaching team, we wanted to show our gratitude for these children by the best way we know how (besides words of course!).
..and that’s through food. If you know this group AT ALL, food is their favorite. Veggies. Fruit. Grain. (and apparently deviled eggs!)–They love it all! So, we thought we’d show our appreciation by preparing a unique lunch.
Several children gathered around the island to help Miss Kim make homemade pumpkin waffle mixture while others marveled at Miss Annastecia as she prepared the deviled eggs—it was a true group effort!
Food brings everyone together. Our lunch time was full of lovely conversation and lasting memories.
We hope you and your family have a lovely and safe holiday weekend.
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pineapple.
Lunch– Homemade pumpkin waffles, turkey, fresh fruit salad (apple, grapes, blueberries, strawberries), homemade deviled eggs, and cooked sweet potatoes.
PM snack– Blue corn chips and hummus.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 11/27
Good Afternoon!
Today, we say goodbye to Emma and her family as they start a new adventure. We have so enjoyed our time with Emma over the past several years, watching her develop meaningful, true friendships. We all will miss you and your family!
“Childhood friendships are a key building block for relationships in later life. They hone skills for future relationships, demonstrate the importance of emotional commitment, facilitate the separation from the family, safeguard against feelings of rejection and loneliness, and ease the transition to adulthood.”
Breakfast– Toasted Oatmeal Squares and banana.
Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapple, and fresh celery/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and block cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh celery/cucumber.
Have a fantastic evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 11/26