Happy Monday!

**Just a reminder, Wee Friends will be closed on Friday for conferences! We are looking forward to meeting with all of our families!

In pre-k/k group, we read ‘Duck for President’. Throughout the story, we identified the specific parts that make up a book: the setting, characters, and events. After we read the story, we talked about each of these things and together, we created a list of characters and events and identified the setting.

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g., characters, settings, or events).

Maddie explored the welcome activity where she took the initiative to match equal numbers together. She made a creation of dominos by finding matches and linking them together.

K.NS.7: Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.

The rest of our morning was full of art table creations, magnatile buildings, and gross motor play in the habitrail.

Breakfast– Toast with peanut butter and fresh apples.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded chicken, PPC pears, and PPC cherry tomatoes/cauliflower.

PM snack– Cottage cheese and PPC banana.

Wee Sprout– Cherry tomatoes.

Have a great evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/12

ANNOUNCEMENT- There is a Parking Policies Reminder sheet attached to everyone’s cubby.  Please make sure to read our parking procedure reminders to be courteous to our neighbors.  Thank you.

Happy 2nd Birthday to our friend, Rose. We hope you have a great day!

Today we were busy practicing our pouring skills using the teapot.

Today was construction hat day. We all enjoyed putting them on and walking around the classroom.

A friend requested the tunnel. We enjoyed taking turns crawling through, playing with the balls and climbing up and down the habitrail ladder.

Breakfast:  Kix cereal and fresh apples.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with shredded beef, fresh PPC banana and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Cottage cheese and pretzels.

Wee Sprouts:  Corn.

Have a great evening!

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Good Afternoon!

**With the incoming weather, please check your phone for any Wee Friend updates before leaving the house in the morning! Stay safe!

**We have placed the following parking reminder on the front door along with a copy attached to your child’s daily sheet today. Please take the time to read it over so that we’re all on the same page when it comes to our parking policy.

PARKING REMINDER: Please be courteous to our neighbors by following our parking policies:

Do NOT block the alley in any way

-Park back from the telephone pole so that neighbors can get into the alley.

-Pull all the way into the alley parking space. That hill is slippery and it is stressful going down with a car partially in the alley.

East side of the street ONLY

Be parked legally/right direction

-Keeping on street parking reserved for brief drop-off/pick-ups during high traffic times and use the church lot for lengthy stays or the parking pad beside WF house.

We thank everyone for their cooperation!

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In our pre-k/k group today, we continued diving in to different narrative genres. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, we read stories in each respective genre: fiction, fairy tale, and poetry. Today, we focused on non-fiction while reading ‘Dinosaurs’. A few of our children are deeply invested in learning about dinosaurs so they enjoyed sharing their findings and passion with the group.

We discussed how almost all of the books in the science area are non-fiction because they are books based on facts.

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

Several children interacted with the welcome activity. Three different cards were put onto trays: air, land, and sea. A variety of cards were placed on the lazy susan ranging from animals to transportation vehicles. We had to determine to what category card each item belonged. Maddie sorted and categorized all of the cards into the correct space, showing her younger friends what cards go where.

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.

Math boxes were requested throughout the morning.

Ruby asked for the ‘measurement’ box, using cubes as a measurement tool. After the cubes were on the paper, Ruby used her index finger to count how many she had.

Elijah requested the ‘shape matching’ box, matching different shapes to the outlines.

Emma and a few of her peers categorized items to the correct board. For example, Emma found three farm animals and placed them on the ‘farm animal’ board.

Breakfast– Corn chex and PPC pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef, PPC banana, and PPC cucumber/snap peas.

PM snack– Triscuits and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– PPC cucumbers/snap peas.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/8

Good Afternoon!

This morning we were busy drawing with markers in our journals.  We made many dots and circles on our papers.

Our younger friends, enjoyed some stories while the older friends were napping.

We were busy playing in the habitrail area with balls, walking in and out of the big blocks and holding onto the balance bar while looking in the mirror.

Lunch:  Scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole grain wheat bread/flatbread, fresh PPC pears and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat crackers with hummus.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

**If you haven’t turned in the yellow pre-conference form, please have that in by this Friday at the latest as we like to refer to them while completing conference forms. Thanks!

We had a late start today because of a weather delay! Even though our routine was a little off, children were able to become involved and acclimated quite well.

Here are a few pictures from our morning!

Breakfast– No breakfast because of late start.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat toast/tortilla, PPC apples, and PPC cherry tomatoes/peppers.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with PPC banana.

Wee Sprout– PPC peppers.

Have a great evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/7

Good Afternoon!

Anna and a few of her peers explored a new activity this morning that revolved about categorizing and sorting animals based on their habitats. After Anna sorted all of the animals, we counted each habitat to see which habitat had the most animals.

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.

Maddie took on a 100 piece puzzle this morning. Lucy and Anna were quick to jump in and help her finish it. They worked great together, communicating and helping one another.

The rest of our morning included several different activities where we used our hands.

Children had the opportunity to paint coffee filters using water colors. Max and a peer built a detailed track using wooden blocks.

Puzzles called our names: floor puzzles and wooden puzzles!

Breakfast– Kix and PPC kiwi.

Lunch– Refried bean and shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, PPC banana, and PPC snap peas/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– PPC cucumber/snap peas.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF, 2/6

Good Afternoon!

Today we…..

went down the slide with the dancing scarves and played with the balls…

brought snow in for our sensory activity…

looked at books and gave each other a high five.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios and fresh PPC pears.

Lunch:  Refried beans and cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh PPC kiwi and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagel toasted with cream cheese and pinto beans.

Wee Sprouts:  Corn.

Have a wonderful night!

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulicVfgghXbT_CH6K5QQ

Good Afternoon!

Just a friendly reminder, we will be closed Friday, February 16 for parent-teacher conferences.  We will provide care for your child during your conference time.  Thank you.

This morning we enjoyed dancing with our scarves. While we were dancing, Miss Rebekah turned on the song, Bop Until You Drop Greg and Steve.  This song contains many actions we could use with our scarves.  For example, they danced high and low, in slow motion and floated in the air like a feather.

Aggie and Daniel helped Emma by adding magnatile squares to her tower.

We spent some time independently looking or having a teacher read us some stories.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat English muffins with butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded beef, fresh PPC banana and carrots.

Afternoon Snack:  Cottage cheese and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Broccoli.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Happy Monday!

**VALENTINE’S DAY: Valentine’s Day is next Wednesday. Every child will get to make their own decorative storage bag. Your child can bring in Valentine’s for their classmates. We have 17 children total. Please put your child’s name on the card (or have them write it for our older friends) but don’t write their peers names on the cards as it’s harder to hand them out in a timely fashion. Also, we ask that you refrain from bringing any sweets attached to the Valentines cards. Thanks so much!

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In pre-k/k group, we’re diving into the different narrative text genres this week. Today, we focused on fiction stories, ‘The Boss Baby’ specifically. We also brainstormed several different fiction stories that we know of.

Throughout the week, we’ll be focusing on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and fairy tale stories. We’ll compare and contrast what each genre has to offer.

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

Franklin and Chloe each took turns interacting with the word puzzles. Once they completed each puzzle, we talked about the letters that made up each word.

Paint was made available at the art table this morning. Children had the opportunity to pick several different colors of paint to put on their paper.

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”  -Walt Disney

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and PPC pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded beef, PPC pears, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with PPC kiwi.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a terrific night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/5

Good Afternoon!

As Emma and Mack were drawing in their journals with markers, they removed all the markers from the marker block and lined them up across their papers.

Today was a busy day in the habitrail area. We were busy taking turns going down the slide, throwing the balls and running to get them and playing peek-a-boo with the dancing scarves.

Breakfast:  Whole grain cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese and fresh apples.

Lunch:  Ham and mozzarella cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh PPC bananas and mixed vegetables.

Afternoon Snack:  Graham crackers and colby-jack block cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Mixed vegetables.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulicQe7ovQyUq2cXl18Q