We started today with writing in our personal journals…

Moved outside to play in a pile of leaves our older friends were kind enough to make for us…

After nap we read a few stories…

And then we moved around the room, enjoying the afternoon together!

Breakfast was whole wheat bagels with butter and pears. Wee sprouts was corn. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with black beans, apples, and green beans. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and grapes.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhtNUH4YTVezc-xxE0w

Have a great night!

Amanda

Good Afternoon!

Our FAB’s for the upcoming week are:

K.W.5: With support, build understanding of a topic using various sources. (Identify relevant pictures, charts, grade- appropriate texts, personal experiences, or people as sources).

K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for simple repeating and growing patterns with numbers and shapes.

Our welcome activity as well as the sign in message focused on recognizing patterns as well as creating patterns.

The welcome activity allowed children to use several cards and ‘copy’ the given pattern. We looked at what the given rule would be while focusing on the colors of the blocks. (K.CA.5)

Miss Tami got us new Melissa and Doug wooden toys over the weekend. We introduced our new toys as well as figuring out what toys we should switch them out for. Children take ownership when they’re involved in the decision making process when it comes to classroom decisions.

To make it fair, we pulled names out of a jar to see who would get to experiment with the toys first. Throughout the morning, children took turns playing with the new toys in the habitrail area.

In kindergarten this morning, we got out the light table and continued with patterns. There were various patterns that we made including focusing on shapes as well as colors. At first, Jackson and Addi completed patterns that I had made and towards the end, we were making our own pattern. (K.CA.5)

Once Jackson and Addi were done with their kindergarten lesson, they got to work raking up the leaves in the backyard. SO many fell over the weekend.

An audience gathered to watch the leaves being raked up before…

We ran through the pile AND tossed the leaves up in the air!

In large group, we read ‘The Pumpkin Man and the Crafty Creeper’. Throughout the story, we looked at the pictures to tell us information. On each page, we talked about what the picture was telling us.

Breakfast– Cinnamon Raisin bagel with no nut butter and pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and red beans, cauliflower, and apples from Anna and her family!

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with raisins/granola.

Wee Sprout– Broccoli.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/17

Happy Friday!

Here are some pictures from throughout our day.

Breakfast– Rice cakes with sweat pea butter and raspberries.

Lunch– Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, cantaloupe, and broccoli.

PM snack– Pretzels with block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Broccoli.

Have a terrific weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/14

Enjoy the pictures from today!

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and grapes. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with shredded beef, bananas, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was graham crackers with grapes and strawberries.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhtIc0yiRG11-CgSmeA

Have a great night!

Amanda

Good Afternoon!

The activities that were done today:

 

The faces that we made today:

It was a GREAT Thursday.

Breakfast– Kix and banana.

Lunch– Organic brown rice with beef, cantaloupe/banana, and cucumber/tomatoes.

PM snack– Goldfish and raisins.

Wee Sprouts– Cherry tomatoes.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/13

We just wanted to make sure that all families are aware of the Christmas holiday break schedule. Originally, the website had the wrong dates. Both sites will be closed Monday, December 26th, 2016 through Friday, January 6th. Meaning, our last day of operation for the 2016 year will be Friday, December 23rd and we will reopen Monday, January 9th 2017.

Thanks!!

www.weefriendskids.com

-Wee Friends Staff

Today we played with the sensory tubes and in the sensory table…

Said good morning to the fishies…

Played with the musical instruments…

And enjoyed time in the sandbox!

Breakfast was Kix and bananas. Lunch consisted of chicken salad sandwiches, bananas, and green beans. Afternoon snack was pretzels with string cheese.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhs86Tp1K9gzGC2sisg

Have a great night!

Amanda

Good Afternoon!

The welcome activity this morning encouraged children to use the colorful gems to trace well known shapes such as a square, circle, and triangle. As Riley traced a shape this morning, he said, “Look! It has six sides. That’s a hexagon.”

We FINALLY cracked open our pumpkin using hammers and golf tees. Children specifically placed golf tees all over the pumpkin, using as much space as they could.

In kindergarten, we headed outside to use all of the lovely things that nature has to offer. We focused on K.M.1 (Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight, and temperature of objects, and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more).

We searched the backyard for various items. First, Addi and Jackson found two leaves. While observing the two leaves that they each had found, they had to determine which leaf was bigger. Once they found that out, they traced or drew it on their paper attached to their clipboard.

After comparing our leaves, we searched for rocks (which was heavier), grass blades (which one was shorter), and buckets from the sand box (which could hold more).

We documented all of our findings on our sheet and compared it with one another.

The rest of our friends came out shortly lately and thankfully, we had a great weather morning to enjoy our surroundings.

In large group, we read a story entitled, ‘Owen’. Owen was about a little boy named Owen who had his own special lovey named ‘Fuzzy’. Owen took Fuzzy everywhere! He was starting school soon and his parents thought he was a little old to have a lovey SO his mom turned it into a handkerchief. As the story progressed, we anticipated what Fuzzy was going to be transformed into! We all gave logical, great guesses using the pictures to give us clues.

After the story was over, friends asked questions about Fuzzy and the relationship that Owen had with him. Maddie compared it to her relationship she has with her yellow giraffe that she brings to school everyday. (K.RL.2.4 and K.RL.2.1)

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with raspberries.

Lunch– Homemade chicken salad with grapes on whole wheat bread, grapes/banana, and cucumbers.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with raspberries.

Wee Sprouts– Cucumber.

Have a lovely night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/12

A game of follow the leader started almost as soon as we got outside! One friend started crawling and soon everyone joined in! They crawled from the door, up the hill, to the track.

When they all reached the track, the game carried on! They then moved together to a couple large rocks. Everyone took turns climbing and standing on top of them.

Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and bananas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with cream cheese and turkey, bananas, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was brown rice cakes with cream cheese.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulhs1mVufFeDEgD7Kd5Q

Have a great night!

Amanda

Good Afternoon!

Our welcome activity along with our sign in this morning was geared towards one of the FAB’s for the week: K.M.1 that focuses on recognizing which object is warmer or colder, along with various other factors. Children sat around the circle table to play the category game that allows friends to distinguish items that go in the sunny, warm weather along with the cold weather.

Foam puzzles were a hot commodity this morning as children sat at the island, using their trial and error skills as they deciphered where different puzzle pieces went.

Patterns that mimic letters were made available at the art table. Using the Fall erasers, children either traced the line or made patterns of their own.

The option to use the sensory table is an everyday activity. It allows for friends to use their hands in a productive manner. It also provides children with the opportunity to work on filling, dumping, and measuring skills.

In large group, we read ‘The Gruffalo’. FUNNY book! We enjoyed learning about the gruffalo and predicting what was going to happen next. There were many animals that were afraid of the gruffalo, which at this point in the story, was a made up animal. The mouse in the story made up the gruffalo as a defense mechanism but it turns out, there really was a gruffalo. As different animals came up to the gruffalo, we predicted what was going to happen based on our previous knowledge and by reading about what had already happened in the story. We also looked at the pictures to learn about the surroundings of the characters along with the characters themselves! (K.RL.2.4)

Breakfast– Kashi’s Wheat Squares and blackberries.

Lunch– Turkey and cream cheese on tortillas, strawberries/cantaloupe, and PPC corn on the cob.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagels with no nut butter.

Wee Sprouts– Peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/11