Good morning!

A late ‘happy birthday’ to Grady! He turned three years old yesterday!

**A note: We got a donation from a Wee Friends mom on Monday. We got a TON of paper for our friends to use at the art table. The paper sheets are work sheets from her work. HOWEVER, we are just using them as scrap paper for our friends to color on and are NOT implementing the activities on the worksheets. Thanks!

Our computer was not functional yesterday but was back in action today!

So..here are some pictures from yesterday as well as from our Halloween parade. We want to thank everyone for the turnout! It was AWESOME!

Here was our menu from yesterday:

Breakfast– Toast with butter and apples.

Lunch– Pasta with chicken, apples, and carrots.

PM snack– Grady’s birthday zucchini bread and kiwi.

Wee Sprout– Carrots.

Hope you have a great day!

-Mindy

 Link to pictures: WF 10/31

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and pear. Wee sprout was peas and carrots. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with chicken, grapes, peas, and carrots. Afternoon snack was string cheese and blueberries.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhuBksTxW-k1qNCWPsQ

Happy Halloween!

Amanda

Just a friendly reminder, on Monday, October 31st at 4:00 we will have everyone dressed in their Halloween costumes and parade around the neighborhood. Parents are welcome to join in.

Happy Friday! Enjoy the pictures from our wonderful day at Wee Friends!

Thank you to Addi for bringing a book to share with us in Kindergarten today! After the book, we read some sentences on sentence strips that Miss Mindy wrote. We read each sentence and then recognized and named each punctuation mark at the end of each sentence (K.W.6.2b).

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and banana.

Lunch: Scrambled eggs and cheese, whole wheat bread, PPC pears and PPC cauliflower and carrots.

Afternoon snack: Pretzels and mozzarella string cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts: Cauliflower

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

Link to photos:https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhuAgeIwd1CGsKWlFlw

Today we played with shakers…

Were silly with the big blocks..

Drew with chalk…

And explored the now empty garden!

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and banana. Wee sprout was carrots. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs, whole wheat bread, pear, kiwi, and carrots. Afternoon snack was cheese crackers and string cheese.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulht8tKGYCtFISqtW2tg

Have a great weekend!

Amanda

Today to go along with our message board, the children had a table top activity to help them understand the meaning of the word opposite.

They were able to show off their creativity and imaginative skills through play dough, building with blocks or dressing up in housekeeping.

We also enjoyed climbing and dancing outdoors.

Breakfast: Kashi’s Blueberry Cluster cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with black beans, pineapple and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack: Graham crackers and Sunflower butter.

Wee Sprouts: Sugar Snap Peas.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to photos:https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulht5_egZ4JC4HlTDKKw

Our friends all took turns painting at the easel this morning. We used paint in fall colors to decorate the classroom for the season.

They did a great job creating new art for us to admire, and there are plenty of paintings to go home, too!

Breakfast was toast with butter and cinnamon and bananas. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with black beans, grapes, and broccoli. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with sweet pea butter.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulht4ZevdFFA1IFvBIvg

Have a great night!

Amanda

This morning Miss Rebekah brought out the shaving cream to provide us with a different sensory experience that we haven’t done in a while. We also added some of our cars to it to see all the different wheel tracks we could make. While we were driving our cars many friends thought of the book Duck in the Truck which talks about a duck who needed help from animal friends to get his truck stuck out of the mud, but for us getting it unstuck from the shaving cream.

Our friend, Maddie also wore a neat Halloween shirt. A majority of the friends went into the bathroom with Miss Melinda who then turned out the light to see what happened with her shirt. How exciting to see a shirt that glows in the dark.

A nice story, puzzles, and journaling are a nice way to spend time together.

Breakfast: Oatmeal, and strawberries.

Lunch: Turkey and cream cheese whole wheat tortilla sandwiches, banana, and cucumbers.

PM Snack: Popcorn with butter and raspberries.

Wee Sprouts: Peppers.

Have a great Wednesday evening.

Rebekah

Link to photos:https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulht0R9T04MbdvX4p4Ow

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast was Kix and pear. Lunch consisted of turkey and cream cheese on tortilla, pears, and broccoli. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and strawberries.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulht1dQPohY5cVqUotdg

Have a great night!

Amanda

Please note: Now that the weather is getting colder, please be sure your child has a jacket/coat that will keep them warm when we go out in the mornings and afternoons.

We started our Tuesday morning with the foam puzzles after a few of our friends asked to play with them. The puzzles are all animal themed and our friends enjoy identifying the images and figuring out where the pieces belong on their puzzle board.

We went to the garden today to see how the tomatoes were growing. Our friends all love to walk through the garden and observe the different plants in it.

Looking at the plants lead to looking at the leaves on the ground. A couple of the children would pick up one leaf at a time, while others picked up whole handfuls. A couple more brought their handfuls to the bench to add to a pile.

In the afternoon we enjoyed time in the gross motor area together. We played on the habitrail, with the big blocks, and on the soft star slide and teeter totters.

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and bananas. Wee sprout was carrots. Lunch consisted of whole wheat hummus sandwiches, pears, and carrots. Afternoon snack was toasted whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhtwlg9ssugLjIzsQ5w

Have a great night!

Amanda

Good Afternoon!

**Just a reminder that we will hold a Halloween parade at 4:00 PM next Monday (October 31st). We will dress our friends in their costumes shortly before the parade and weather permitting, will walk throughout the neighborhood spreading our Halloween joy!

Well it was our last day at swim! Our friends enjoyed this session so much and gained useful knowledge. Here’s what our friends enjoyed the most:

Max: “Jump off the diving board!”

Jackson: “Jumping off the diving board!”

Tate: “Jumping off the diving board!”

Addi: “Using the barbells.”

Maddie: “Doing chicken, airplane, pencil.”

Lulu: “When I swam all by myself.”

Lucy: “Being done with swimming.”

Back here in Wee land..

We enjoyed our indoor and outdoor spaces this morning.

In large group:

We read various stories including, “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear”. Before reading our stories, we talked about the differences between a period, exclamation mark, and question mark. Once we discussed what each one was and how it was used, we started reading our story. I told everyone to keep an eye out for these three marks that end a sentence. After the first page, multiple hands were raised as friends shared where they recognized these marks and called them by name.

We found two examples of periods, exclamation marks, and question marks and wrote the sentences on the chalk board. “Can we keep looking for them?!”—Even though we found various examples of all three marks, we kept looking for them throughout all of our stories! (K.W.6.2b)

Breakfast– Whole grain cheerios and pears.

Lunch– Red pepper hummus on whole wheat bread, clementine’s, and cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Hard boiled eggs and triscuits.

Wee Sprouts– Cherry tomatoes.

Have a terrific night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/25