We hope you had as great of a Monday as we did! Our favorite part was being able to go outside and enjoy the nice weather without all the winter gear while it lasts.
Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and blueberries.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with black beans, apples and peas.
Afternoon Snack: Organic whole milk yogurt and blueberries.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers and Broccoli.
Have a great night!
Rebekah
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We’d like to welcome Daniel to the Wee Wee world! We’re so excited you’re here!
We were able to go outside today, much to everyone’s excitement! We had a great time in the fresh air!
Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with black beans, grapes, and peas. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and banana.
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Have a great night!
Amanda
Happy Friday! Today we played with moon sand…
Completed every puzzle we have…
Tossed beans bags and talked about their colors…
And played dress up!
Breakfast was Chex and banana. Lunch consisted of whole wheat bread with sweet pea butter, peas, and banana. Afternoon snack was cheese crackers and banana.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh7B5OeJxSbYHI95DYw
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Happy Friday!
**Reminder: the pre-conference form is due TODAY! Thanks!
Addi, Lulu, and Maddie created at the art table for the most of the morning. They showed the initiative by grabbing paper, markers, and stencils and created various art pieces using a variety of colors. They bounced ideas off of each other and collaborated as each of them had a specific end goal in mind.
We have been doing a wide range of puzzles for the last couple of weeks. The variety of puzzles range from wooden knob puzzles to foam puzzles to 48 piece wooden puzzles. A few friends are scratching the surface of 100-piece puzzles. Below is an article laying out the many benefits of puzzle play.
https://teach.com/blog/the-benefits-of-puzzles-in-early-childhood-development/
In large group, we read ‘The Tooth Book’ by Dr. Seuss. We discussed cavities and fillings along with dentist visit stories! I told them that I’m taking my dog to the vet at Purdue on Monday which lead us into a discussion about MRI’s and X-Rays. The bone structure in our body was talked about as well as Lulu letting us know that “the bone in your head is actually called your skull!” Children’s brains are like sponges; they soak EVERYTHING up!
Breakfast– Rice cakes with cream cheese and banana.
Lunch– No nut butter on tortillas, grapes/oranges, and cherry tomatoes/cauliflower.
PM snack– Block cheese and raspberries/blueberries.
Wee Sprout– Cauliflower.
Have a terrific weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/3
Today Ruby transitioned over to Wee Friends. We will miss her over here, but we know she will do wonderfully next door!
After breakfast, our friends sat around the story area reading together. They were excited to pick which teacher book (paper books) they wanted to read on their own.
Later, they asked for the tunnels to be brought out. They love popping through the window in the big tunnel and meeting each other in the middle when they crawl from opposite sides.
Then they all took turns jumping on the trampoline. Our friends did well waiting for their turns and enjoyed encouraging their friends to jump.
And then after snack: more teacher books!
Breakfast was toast with butter and banana. Wee sprout was corn. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with turkey, clementine’s, and corn. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers and sweet pea butter.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh68RG4tEtUf0J7IyPg
Have a great night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
**Just a reminder: the pre-conference forms are due TOMORROW. Thank you!
This morning, we welcomed Ruby to our classroom! She fit in instantly and all of our friends enjoyed showing her around.
We used our hands in a variety of ways; magnatiles, floor puzzles, and pattern blocks.
Jackson and Max built a human water fall out of the trio blocks. It was perfect height for friends to go under the stream and get water!
Maddie and Lulu used the links to create a link that went all around the round table! Their fine motor skills sure did get a work out in.
In large group, we read a story titled, ‘The Book With No Pictures”. It sure did elicit some laughs 
. At the end of the story, we discussed how we look at pictures to tell us what’s going on in the story if we’re not able to read the words. Since this book didn’t have any pictures, we had to open our ears and use our imagination!
Breakfast– Whole grain cheerios and blueberries.
Lunch– Organic, brown rice with turkey, papaya/banana, and cucumbers.
PM snack– Roasted chick peas and graham crackers.
Wee Sprout– Snap peas.
Have a lovely night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/2
Enjoy the pictures from today!
Breakfast was Chex and kiwi. Wee sprout was mixed veggies. Lunch consisted of homemade French toast casserole, kiwi, and peas. Afternoon snack was pretzels and string cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh64A41ZzB8odlsXHeg
Have a great night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
The welcome activity today focused on different variations of lines. Using marbles, friends traced the lines by putting marbles down along the lines.
Lulu and Maddie incorporated patterns into the activity by putting specific colored marbles down such as blue, green, red, blue, green, red.
Jackson asked for an experiment this morning. Materials were gathered at the art table. Using wood, plastic trays, and wax paper, we built four ramps to go around the table. Once all of the seats were taken, we started in!
Using eye droppers, various liquids were tested on the wax paper. First, we started with baby oil and watched to see how fast it travelled down the ramp. Next came temper paint and so on.
The conclusion was that the water travelled down the ramp the fastest.
We have many friends who are involved in gymnastics class outside of school. We hear of the many different moves that friends learn in class so we implemented some of those moves this morning!
We borrowed the star/incline combo from Wee Wee. First, everyone took turns practicing a front somersault and backwards somersault. We talked about our core before starting, putting our hands on our stomach. I explained that when we’re trying to balance, we’re engaging our core muscles.
After we did our somersaults, we flipped the gross motor contraption over and practiced our balancing skills by trying to balance on the flat surface.
We got to go outside this morning. While it was just a little messy and muddy, we enjoyed the fresh air and vitamin D.
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with oatmeal and PPC grapes.
Lunch– Homemade egg casserole, cherry tomatoes, and apples.
PM snack– Blue corn chips and refried beans.
Wee Sprout– Peppers.
Have a great night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/1
Our friends enjoyed playing with shaving cream this morning. They all tried squeezing the shaving cream between their fingers. A few rubbed it on their hands and arms to see what it felt like. They also used their hands, sponges, and popsicle sticks to spread and swirl the shaving cream onto their trays.
Then this afternoon, everyone was excited to get a turn jumping on a trampoline! We can tell this is a new favorite gross motor activity!
Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and kiwi. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat with hummus, blueberries, and peas. Afternoon snack was toasted whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh6xZB-zVeSHBjUT6iw
Have a great night!
Amanda
Today when a friend came to school, he wanted to paint. After breakfast, we made finger painting available. All of our friends came over and explored mixing the primary colors together to make new colors.
In Kindergarten today:
We focused on two of our FAB’s for the week:
K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g., create a rectangle composed of two triangles).
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
Translucent geometric shapes were made available at the light table. Our younger friends joined Jackson and Addi so there were varying degrees of ability. As a group, we talked about the properties of the shapes that we saw such as the number of sides and vertices. A couple questions came up regarding vertices so I had everyone get a shape and press the pointy corner. “This is a vertices!” It’s where the sides come together.
Addi and Jackson took two sizes of the same shape such as a big triangle and a small triangle. I asked if they were the same shape. “Yes! They still both have three sides,” commented Addi.
Afterwards, friends were given the reigns to use their imagination. Addi started to build a house while incorporating grass, a garage, chimney, and trees! Some of our younger friends made simple geometric patterns using various shapes.
Breakfast- Kix and blueberries.
Lunch- Hummus on flatbread, clementine’s, and snap peas.
PM snack- Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.
Wee Sprout- Snap peas.
Have a great night!
-Rebekah and Mindy
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