Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast was Kix and blueberries. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with refried beans and cheese, clementine’s, and peas. Afternoon snack was blue corn chips and Colby Jack cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5k5UeXgpc3Kubu0uw
Have a good night!
Amanda
This morning Miss Melinda offered a musical activity. First the children listened and danced to some songs on a CD. Then they were given a rhythm stick to use as they walked throughout the house tapping their sticks on different items to check the different sounds they made. Afterwards she placed water at different levels in beakers and they tapped gently to listen for the different timbres.
For a sensory experience, the moon sand table and art easel were available for the children to enjoy digging and building castles or painting using long brush strokes to make lines down the paper.
The children were busy enjoying a good book, playing a board game together, building with the color viewer blocks in the new loft or building with magnatiles.
Breakfast: Corn Chex cereal and pears.
Lunch: No Nut butter sandwiches on multigrain bread, oranges, tomatoes and green beans.
Afternoon Snack: Toasted whole wheat bagel and colby jack block cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Green beans.
Have a great night!
Rebekah
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5gSRf5K-rA0MTBijQ
Today we decorated hearts with dot paints…
Cooked together in housekeeping…
Raced through tunnels…
And were great helpers when a big truck brought our groceries!
Breakfast was Corn Chex and blueberries. Wee sprouts was mixed veggies. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5hL8MFYeqALDdnLhg
Have a great night!
Amanda
Welcome back! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday break!
Breakfast was Cheerios and oranges. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with chicken, apples, and mixed veggies. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and blueberries.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5csVyLrmHuysWUgNg
Have a great night!
Amanda
Welcome Back!
FAB’s for the week:
Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.
Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.
First, a BIG thank you to Miss Tami and her husband, Charles, on another spectacular Wee Friends renovation. The habitrail and art area got a facelift including new shelving, colored wood on the walls, and a new small loft, among other things. We all loved exploring this morning to find new things in the environment. We appreciate all of your work!
We were all so happy to get back into our Wee Friends routine today! Friends moved throughout the house, observing the new additions before diving into their play.
The housekeeping area was busy all morning as children used several props within their play. Anna, Rosemary, and Tate gathered a few babies along with blankets and proceeded to read stories to them. As they were reading, Tate noticed a ‘T’ and said, “That’s a T for my name: Tate!”
There are also new bins for all of our toys! We had a group meeting pertaining to the rules with the new loft and allowing all of our friends to become acquainted with the new features, such as the new bins!
The new loft was utilized a lot this morning. As a group, we decided on what toys we should allow up in the loft. We came to the conclusion that the colored blocks would work well!
Jackson and Addi started a new sign in this morning that focuses on writing using writing strips. Since the sentence strips are somewhat new, I assisted Jackson by scaffolding his experience by demonstrating how upper case and lower case letters look like on the sentence strip. He took another colored marker and traced my letters, allowing him to get the feeling of the letters. Throughout the week, sentence strips will be made available so that we can become more comfortable using them.
Not only will the sentence strips help increase our writing experience but it allows us to work on spacing, capitalization, and letter formation.
We welcomed Tate and Lucy into our large group today! Jackson and Addi did a great job showing Tate and Lucy the procedure for going to large group as well as journaling.
We read a story together before making a list of some classroom rules that we follow here at school. After we made the list, we talked about why these rules are important. The consensus was that these rules keep us SAFE. A few friends shared personal stories about getting hurt and how it made them feel—“Which is why it’s important to follow the rules!”, stated a friend.
(Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us)
Breakfast– English muffin with no nut butter and apples.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and chicken, apples, and mixed vegetables.
PM snack-Whole milk yogurt with blueberries.
Wee Sprout– Carrots.
Have a great night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 1/9
We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break! See you in the new year!
Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and blueberries. Lunch consisted of egg salad sandwiches, peas, and apples. Afternoon snack was yogurt and blueberries.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5YijhPDifCgTa07ag
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Good morning!
We were quite low today which allowed for a quiet, low key day.
Many of our friends became involved at the art table or with puzzles! Riley asked to make another bird feeder and friends soon flocked to the table with him.
Anna and Rosemary occupied the tent while Elijah got his swinging quota in for the day. The new red swing is by far our favorite swing that we have available!
Calix played a letter game where he threw bean bags on various circles and we talked about the letter the bag landed on. For example, he threw a bean bag on the letter ‘C’. He said, “Hey! That’s C for Calix!”
Breakfast– Rice cakes with no nut butter and blueberries.
Lunch– Homemade egg salad on tortillas, peppers, and apples.
PM snack– Block cheese and crackers.
Wee Sprout– Peppers.
Have a safe and joyful Christmas vacation! See everyone in 2017.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/23
Today we made something special for the birds. We started out with a plain pinecone. Next we had to spread shortening all over it before applying Cheerios. Each child made 2 so they could have one here and another one at home. We’ll have to wait and see what’s left of them here at school tomorrow or when we get back from our Christmas break.
Our day was also filled with building, with blocks, swinging, working on puzzles or enjoying a great story.
The highlight of our morning was that it was warm enough for us to go out and play in the snow! We made snowballs, took turns sliding down the hill on the sleds and checked to see how fast we could go down the slides in our snow pants. We had a blast!
Breakfast: Oatmeal pancakes and blueberries.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, grapes, oranges and broccoli.
Afternoon Snack: Wheat Thins and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
We hope you enjoyed your Thursday as much as we did!
Rebekah
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5RlEMjRR87-0t-XDA:
Our friends made birdfeeders today!
Fist, we rolled pinecones in shortening. This was the messy part; more than one friend was rubbing their hands together to feel the slippery shortening on their skin.
Then, after sneaking a few, we stuck Cheerios to the pinecones.
Ta da! Birdfeeders ready to take home and hang outside!
Breakfast was Kix and oranges. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with chicken, blueberries, and green beans. Afternoon snack was graham crackers and blueberries.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5R60yTui7557_571Q
Have a good night!
Amanda
This morning Ruby asked for the basket of finger puppets to play with and her friends soon joined her. Their favorites to play with are the mice puppets. They put them on their fingers, hold them up, and say “squeak squeak!”
After the puppets, we all went into the kitchen to stomp all over bubble wrap!
This afternoon we played with our new indoor snowballs! These are lots of fun to throw around the room! We got out a big block for our friends to toss the snowballs into. They filled it up and dumped it out many times.
Breakfast was Chex and blueberries. Lunch consisted of whole wheat flat bread with chicken avocado, oranges, and carrots. Afternoon snack was blue corn chips and block cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5QSNdh–OviM5VJaA
Have a great night!
Amanda