Happy Friday!  Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh mandarin oranges.

Lunch:  Turkey lunch meat, whole grain wheat tortillas, bananas and fresh Roma tomatoes.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Fresh mini sweet bell peppers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures:  2024-02-09

Happy Thursday!  Enjoy many pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Kix cereal and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with black beans, fresh cantaloupe and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Pepita seeds and Wheat Thins crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Orange bell peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-02-08

Happy Friday!  Hope you all enjoy the photos from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and orange slices

Lunch: Humus on whole wheat bread with fresh peppers, cucumbers, pineapple and oranges

PM Snack: Pretzels with cheddar cheese

Wee Sprouts: Fresh tomatoes and cucumbers

Link to Photos:2024-02-09

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 group came to sign in this morning. They chose a card from the bottom of the easel and we read it together. After reading the word on their card, they had to determine if it fit in the ‘day of the week’ group or ‘month’ group. Children taped their word to the correct group and wrote their name. A few friends even chose the card that had their birthday month! A friend shared, “Saturday is a day of the week and it’s on the weekend!”.

Later on in group, we hit our final text genre group: fairytale! We read, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. We especially enjoyed learning the names of the dwarfs! After we were done, children were quick to share why it’s a fairytale story as well as a fiction story instead of a nonfiction story.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).

K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.

We set up a new sensory table as a wet marble run.  We used water beads as the marbles and experimented with a variety of tools that could be used to move water through the wheels and runs in different ways.  A popular activity was to work together to collect all of the water beads in the jug, then dump the whole thing into the funned area.  This created an interesting water bead vortex as the water and beads spun around the funnel.

Our welcome activity was an open ended sorting table today.  We set up a variety of trays and a collection of objects in the middle.  This set-up encouraged a variety of ways to sort and categorize.  There was plenty of room for creative thinking and imaginative play as well.

We had a wonderful time outdoors today enjoying the fresh air!  We spent lots of time biking, playing ball and digging in the sand!  What great February break in the weather!

Breakfast– Puffins cereal with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh cantaloupe/oranges, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Trail mix featuring granola, peanuts, raisins, and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh tomatoes/cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-02-08

Good Afternoon!

***Reminder: The pre-conference form (YELLOW SHEET) is due this Friday, February 9th! Thanks!

A friend asked this morning, “Could you turn on some music?”. This interest led into a music session this morning where we listened to music while playing a variety of musical instruments! Some of our favorite instruments to explore were the xylophone, accordion, and maracas. This activity lent itself as an authentic time for children to wait patiently for something that they wanted. The accordion and xylophone were hot commodities but since there’s only one of each instrument, friends had to wait patiently for a turn!

We got outside and enjoyed just a sliver of sunshine. It was enough for us! We got out the bikes at the request of several friends. Children floated around outside from activity to activity, soaking up the fresh air and expending some energy.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with fresh cantaloupe/strawberries.

 

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh carrots/pepper.

PM Snack: Blue corn chips with hummus.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and peppers.

Link to photos: 2024-02-07

Good Afternoon!

This morning our friends were engaged in a variety of activities.  Ben and Eliza enjoyed looking at a book independently, Eden sat and played in the cube, Charlotte crawled on the habi-trail, Dax and Ben built with the hollow blocks and Eleanor explored building with the Magna-Tiles.

We then went into the kitchen to paint with blue, red and yellow tempera paint and our new circle sponge brushes.  We have brushes that are a small circles, medium circles and large circles.  We were each given all 3 sizes to choose from to create our paintings.  Some of us explored mixing colors together to create a new color on our papers.

We then headed outside to enjoy a little sunshine and fresh air.  We climbed on the slide, drove the construction trucks in the rock area, walked around on the rock path and engaged with the sea animals at the table.

Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh apple slices and carrots.

Snack:  Whole grain wheat tortillas and refried beans.

Wee Sprout: Yellow bell pepper.

Have a great evening!

~Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-02-07

Good Afternoon!

We continued diving into different text genres in PREK1 today. Yesterday we focused on fiction and today we tackled poetry! We read a few poems from the book, ‘It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles’. For poetry days, I take the book and slowly fan through the book and each child gets to place their finger on a page and that’s the poem we read. We do this for each child so that we read several poems with varying topics and lengths! After we were done, we added it to our chart. What genre will we read tomorrow?

Last week several friends were pretending to be serving lemonade at the water table we had out.  This week we elaborated on their imaginative play creating a lemonade sensory bin.  We added cups and pitchers of varying sizes.  Many friends noticed the weight difference between the small and large jugs.  Many enjoyed the challenge of picking up and pouring the largest jug into cups.  Great practice in motor control!  The lemonade making went on all morning!

At our welcome activity this morning we set out three trays of various objects, and jars to sort into.  Friends were encouraged to come up with a sorting system of their own. Several sorted by size or shape.   Our older friends came up with some very creative ways of sorting.  Nesta chose to sort her “jewels” according to how special they were.  She had a jar for the most special, one for less special and one for least special.

Today in the science area, a group of friends worked together to build a dinosaur bunk house where the dinosaurs were having a sleep over.  The bunk house stretched across the entire room with the ability to accommodate all of the dinosaurs we have!

Breakfast– Chex and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Avocado chicken sandwich on whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe/strawberries, and fresh pepper/carrot.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/carrot.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-02-06

Good Afternoon!

This morning Charlotte, Eden and Eleanor sat on the reading step to look through their own book.

A few friends then went to look at the pictures of their friends.  Each picture has velcro on it so friends can attach them to the felt board.

We then headed into the kitchen for a sensory experience with shaving cream.  The friends enjoyed spreading it all over their trays with their hands while feeling its smooth texture or using a paint brush to spread it.

We then headed out to do some dancing and movement songs.  Friends acted out the movements to the song Listen and Move by Greg and Steve.  A few friends enjoyed listening to the song and shaking their dancing scarves to the music.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with fresh orange slices.

Lunch: Hummus on whole grain wheat tortilla, fresh strawberries and peas.

Snack:Whole grain wheat bagel with butter spread and cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.

Wee Sprout: Fresh Roma tomatoes.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-02-06

Good Afternoon!

This morning we were engaged in a variety of activities.  Eliza was reading a book to her baby doll, Ben dressed-up in a shirt, Charlotte explored the face of her baby doll and Eleanor made some toast.

We then engaged with the object permanence boxes working on our fine motor skills to place the ball or coin in the hole or slot.

We then built with Magna-Tiles.  We built something that was big enough to place our animals or Little People inside.

We then headed outside to enjoy the sunshine while engaging in our favorite activities.  We rode on the teeter totters, rode bikes down the hill and in the sandbox, we rode the dump truck and scooped the sand.

Breakfast: Peanut butter on toasted whole grain wheat bread and fresh apple slices.

Lunch: Whole wheat penne pasta with black beans, fresh orange slices, and fresh Roma tomatoes.

Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and Roma tomatoes.

Wee Sprouts: Yellow bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-02-05

Good Afternoon!

This week in PREK1, one of the FAB’s that we’ll be exploring deals with text genres! Today, we read ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’ which quickly lead into a conversation about how it’s a fiction book because, “Crayons can’t talk!” and “Crayons can’t write letters!”. Throughout the week, we’ll dive into each text genre and explore what each genre offers.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, and poems).

This morning we enjoyed a loose parts welcome activity.  The activity encouraged sorting and matching, but was open ended to allow for imaginative play.  Several friend found the matching rings and wanted to sort and organize by color.  Others wanted create an imaginative game around it.  Some friends pretended the pieces were little people…or in one case bunnies… and the buttons were their plates.  Some built little homes for them from the wood trays.

We all are enjoying the fresh warm unseasonable air!  We spent lots of time outdoors this morning!

PREK2: We talked about emotions during group time, anger in particular.  We talked about our favorite ways to get ourselves back to feeling calm and safe.

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

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef and fresh tomatoes, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh carrots/tomatoes/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/tomatoes/pepper.

Have a wonderful night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-02-05