Good Afternoon!  I can’t believe it is already the last day of May. How the year is flying by!

What a beautiful morning full of sunshine instead of rain.  We decided to spend the majority of our morning outside.  We utilized the art easel to use a variety of colors of  tempera paint with different size brushes to paint beautiful masterpieces.

After painting, we enjoyed a delicious cucumber Wee Sprout snack.

Then we were ready to engage ourselves in many of our favorite outside activities ourselves or with a friend from the other classroom.

Breakfast:  Whole grain rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh apples.

Lunch:  Ham on whole grain flatbread, fresh oranges/apples and peas.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Fresh cucumbers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Happy Friday!

**Please check your child’s bathroom cubby to make sure he/she has appropriate summer clothes! Thank you!

Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh apples.

Lunch– Shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, fresh pears, and fresh peppers/cucumber.

PM snack– Popcorn and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a great weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/31

Good Afternoon!

Today is Maxwell’s last day at Wee Friends. Come August, he’ll join his older brother Jackson, at elementary school! We are SO going to miss the energy, constant smiles, and overall zest for life that Max brings into our environment. Maxwell and his older brother have been staples in our classroom for the last four years. We know you’ll provide your new teacher with smiles, laughter, and joy. You’re a Wee Friender for LIFE!

Enjoy pictures from our active and engaging Thursday!

Breakfast– Quaker Oatmeal Squares with fresh pears/banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey/cheese, fresh banana/apples, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

PM snack– Sunflower seeds and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

Have a fantastic evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/30

Good Afternoon.

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” ~Walt Streightiff

This morning our fish were quite active in their water home! We all got quite a kick out of watching the three of them go to nose to nose (if you will). They seemed to have all wanted the same piece of fish food that was slowly falling to the bottom of the tank. Daniel told his friend Evie… “Silly Fish.”

We were all happily engaged in coloring in our journal binders today.

We enhanced our learning by using our fine motor, hand-eye coordination and color recognition skills all while having fun making beautiful marks/creations in our binders.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and banana.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, fresh yellow peppers and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers and Mozzarella string cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh Cucumbers.

Have a nice evening.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

“Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.” ~Roger Rosenblatt

Please Note: Wee Friends classrooms will be closed for the upcoming summer break from June 25th to July 5th. We will re-open on July 8th.

When we have infants in the classroom, we always love to watch them grow and develop into awesome little people that achieve so many wonderful and exciting milestones!

Well, today Miss Nesta achieved a very BIG milestone… She figured out how to climb up the habi-trail slide and get herself all the way to the top. Just look at that happy face when she conquered her goal.  

Daniel and Evie showed interest in the rhythm sticks today and asked if we could also listen to music. So what better way to get our musical senses in motion?? We listen to Hap Palmers… Tap your sticks.

We all had a fabulous time listening to Hap’s words telling us where to place our sticks. We were learning how to follow directions given to us, all while having fun!  What’s better than that?!?!?

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh honeydew, strawberries and cantaloupe.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with Colby Jack shredded cheese, carrots and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Have an awesome night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

K/PREK1 looked at the physical characteristics between a world map and a globe. Afterwards, we sorted these words into four categories. At the end, several friends shouted, “We have a tie!”. We were able to distinguish between what we saw on a map versus on a globe.

Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.

PREK2 members looked at a map of places that you’d see around town. Lines were drawn from place to place to show the route that was taken!

Max and Grady explored letters at the island this morning in various ways.

Max asked for the Montessori letters. He spelled words that he knew and then used a dry erase marker to write down the word. As Grady completed his alphabet puzzle, he identified the letter as well as the sound it made. Max and Grady helped one another if they needed some assistance!

Children gathered at the art table where they used leaves and paint to make prints! Large pieces of paper were taped to the table so that friends could make a group creation.

“It must not be forgotten that the basic law of children’s creativity is that its value lies not in its results, not in the product of creation, but in the process itself. It is not important what children crate, but that they do create, that they exercise and implement their creative imagination.”

-Vygotsky

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh cantaloupe.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Tortilla chips and hummus.

Wee Sprouts– Fresh carrots.

Have a terrific night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/29

Happy Tuesday!

Hope everyone was able to have an enjoyable long weekend.

Here are a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and shredded beef, fresh oranges, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh oranges.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a fantastic night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/28

Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a fabulous holiday weekend and made it through the storms.

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun!” ~Mary Lou Cook 

Please enjoy the pictures from our day.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and Cheerios with oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef and butter, carrots and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with Peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

Our morning started out rainy, so there was lots of Lego building and play dough creations.

We got out a Disney CD and of course, a dance party ensued! The large group came up with the idea to form a circle around a friend and dance around them. They each took turns on who got to be in the middle.

A dance party is no fun without instruments. Franklin and his friends got out the rhythm sticks to keep the beat with the music. Ms. Melinda got to see their skills, and commented on how well they were able to stay on beat.

We finally did make it outside. Emma and her friends went to the kitchen to make cookies for their family. Some of our older friends got together to play a game of soccer.

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter & raisins

Wee sprouts: Organic carrots, sugar snap peas, & cucumber

Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with ham & cheese, cucumbers, &  fresh watermelon

PM Snack: Goldfish, Colby Jack cheese, &  watermelon

All of us at Wee Friends wish you a happy and safe Memorial Day Weekend!

Ms. Kim

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Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a great week.

“The children are the curriculum.” ~Lisa Murphy

Please Note: WWF is closed on Monday, May 27th in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen Tuesday, May 28th.

We want to wish one of our friend’s a Happy second Birthday today!  

We all enjoyed stepping, jumping and hopping on our colorful and very fun stepping square water mats. We decided to place all them in a four and six way patterned sequence so we could also utilize them along side our big block and soft star play.

What a great way to get our bodies in motion and utilize our gross motor enjoyment.

We were very happy it stopped raining long enough this morning so we could enjoy seeing our older Wee Friends from the pre-school classroom and get some fresh air.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon with pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat toasted bread with turkey lunchmeat and shredded Colby Jack cheese, corn and watermelon.

Snack: Whole grain Goldfish cheese crackers and our Birthday friend brought in a special b-day treat. (Quinoa flakes, almond butter, slivered almonds, dried cranberries, semi sweet and dark chocolate chips, honey, salt and vanilla extract.) YUMMMMM!!!! Thank You!

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a FABULOUS Memorial Day weekend.

Marty

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