Happy Friday! We hope you enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Peanut butter on brown rice cakes with fresh pears
Lunch: Whole wheat English muffin pizza with fresh banana, pear, green beans and carrot slices
PM Snack: Shakti’s birthday treat with pretzels and cheese
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and carrot slices
Link to Photos:2023-12-08
Have a great weekend!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Happy Thursday!
This morning our friends danced with bean bags to the “Beanie Bag Dance” song. We also danced to a different bean bag song, “Bean Bag Bop.”
We then made our way to the kitchen to engage with some play dough. Our friends used different tools like scissors, cookie cutters, and rolling pins to interact with the play dough.
We enjoyed some of our favorite activities outside like playing in the kitchen, scooping in the sandbox, and pushing trucks by the play house.
Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with fresh pears.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded colby-jack cheese, fresh cucumbers and banana.
Afternoon Snack: Peanut butter on whole grain Wheat Thins crackers.
Wee Sprout: Red bell peppers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-12-07
Good Afternoon!
**VACCINATION RECORD REMINDERS
Children who are due for a new vaccination record will find a reminder taped to their cubbies. Please leave the reminder slips on the cubbies until you have submitted one to us. This way you will get a daily reminder and we know which ones are still needed at a quick glance.
Why annual vaccination records? State licensing requires a new record annually. To ensure we are ready for our Q1 inspection, we need them no later than Jan 1st.
*Families who enrolled this summer/fall will have already submitted a shot record so you are all set until we request new records next year.
*If you already brought us an updated shot record sometime this fall, you are all set!
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PREK1 friends had the opportunity to come sign in this morning where we worked with syllables. I had several different items in a bag and each friend got to pull one item from the bag. Once they identified the item, they clapped out the syllables for that item. For example, William pulled out a ball. He figured out that ‘ball’ is a one syllable word. He wrote ‘bal’ in the one syllable group and wrote his name.
Arthur’s birthday yesterday grew into a class-wide interest in cakes. Several friends proposed a cake shop which expanded all morning. We brought the tiered cake up for the cake shop to get started plus some baking pans, spoons, bowls and whisks so the kids could take their imagination into preparing the cakes for sale as well. Once the cake shop was set up, we needed customers. Some willing volunteers equipped with a bags of pretend money, headed for the cake shop for some practice in commerce. It was apparent with all of the activity at the shop, that the business needed a restaurant. We created some place settings for “cake with tea or coffee” and the cake shop quickly hired a wait staff. soon we had bakers, sellers, buyers, servers and diners all over housekeeping. What a fun team effort!
Nesta continued the cake shop idea in the art center. She designed a menu for the restaurant with a variety of cakes to choose from. She decided upon chocolate, raspberry and vanilla.
We expanded the water table this morning as well since interest in this set up has stayed strong all week. There has been a lot of interest in the flow of water and possibilities for diverting it. We added some magnetic tiles and marbles to help our friends trace the water flow and watch gravity work.
Breakfast: Puffin cereal with fresh pears.
Lunch: Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh pears/banana, and fresh cherry tomatoes/carrots.
PM Snack: Hummus with tortilla chips.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and green beans.
Link to Photos: 2023-12-07
Hope everyone got a chance to enjoy the sun today! Have a lovely afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
Reminder: We need an updated vaccination record by the time we return from our winter vacation on January 8, 2024. Those children who need one have a green note taped to their cubby. Thank you!
This morning we all engaged in a book independently on the reading step. Eleanor explored the wooden loose parts in the housekeeping area.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage with wooden loose parts that were a variety of different shapes and small animals on wooden trays. We stacked our wooden pieces together to make a tall tower.
We then laid out the stepping textured circles and liquid squares to walk on before climbing up the stairs onto the habi-trail. Eden held and tossed one of our indoor snowballs.
Finally, the weather was nice enough for us to make it outside. We enjoyed the fresh air and playing with the dinosaurs in the sandbox, walking on the balance beam with help from an older friend and one of the other pre-school class friends was using their imaginative play skills and decided to be a unicorn, so we joined them.
Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh green beans, blueberries and whole grain wheat bread.
Afternoon Snack: Hummus with white corn tortilla chips.
Wee Sprouts: Red bell peppers/cucumbers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-06
Good Afternoon Families! We hope you enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh blueberries
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with fresh pineapple, apple slices, carrot slices and green beans
PM Snack: Arthur’s Birthday Treat
Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots and bell peppers
Link to photos: 2023-12-06
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Wee Friends Teachers
Good afternoon!
Our friends were all engaged in different activities on the reading steps. They played with stuffed animals, looked out the window, and read independently or with Miss Bekah.
They also crawled on the Habi-trail one after the other. The babies laughed as the older friends crawled behind them. They enjoyed going down the slide and playing peek-a-boo by the ladder.
We then made our way to the kitchen to explore our corn/bean sensory table. Friends scooped up the mixture using different items like measuring cups. We also felt the texture of the gourds and the corn cobs.
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh apples.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole grain wheat tortilla with 1/2 mozzarella cheese stick, fresh blueberries, and red bell pepper.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain English muffins with cream cheese and pear slices.
Wee Sprout: Green beans.
Have a wonderful evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-12-05
Good Afternoon!
PREK1 friends had the opportunity to come sign in this morning where we worked on creating rhyming words. Children were given the word ‘can’ and had to come up with a rhyming word. Once they said aloud a word that rhymed, they sounded their word out using their knowledge of letter sounds. Then, they kid spelled their rhyming word! Every single child was able to do this which was amazing! We’ve seen a huge uptick in interest level and readiness when it comes to writing and letter identification/sounds.
There has been a lot of interest in building zoos and animal houses in the building area lately. Today as a loose parts activity, we offered the opportunity to expand on those interests with some new materials and see where it went. As always many friends enjoyed watching what their peers did as much as they enjoyed doing the activity themselves. There is such an incredible amount of learning going on during this focused observation, especially in a multi-age classroom like ours!
There are several friends who have really taken big leaps in their drawing abilities lately. This ability represents leaps in both fine motor and cognitive development. It takes a high level of neuro-cooperation to conceptualize ideas within the mind, transfer those thoughts to paper using the hand, and then verbalize all of that processing!
PREK 2: During group today we read the story “Friendship Day”. After the story we thought of ways we could be friendly to others. There were many creative answers like “Give a friend pineapple”!
Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh bananas.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread/tortilla, fresh apples/pears and cucumbers/carrot slices.
PM snack: Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh blueberries.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh green, red and yellow bell peppers along with carrot chips.
Link to Photos: 2023-12-05
Stay warm everyone!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
This morning we began by engaging ourselves in a variety of different activities. The friends engaged to build a shape train, dressed up in dress up clothes and accessories, danced to Jumping and Counting by Jim Gill, played with the food in housekeeping and enjoyed reading a book.
We then headed into the kitchen to paint with the watercolor cakes using a sponge brush on paper and coffee filters. We filled our coffee filters and papers full of colors.
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and fresh pear slices.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded beef, fresh apples and peas.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.
Wee Sprout: Red bell peppers.
Have a great evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-04
Happy Monday!
We were busy today in many different areas of the classroom. Several friends helped to test some new painting materials to see what kind of marks they made when pressed against paper. In the reading area, groups of friends gathered to look at books together and talk about the stories. In the building area, a group project evolved. A group of friends worked together with the notch blocks to create individual “animal rooms”. In case you wonder if this was a zoo, I confirmed that it was not. Every group member was in agreement that this was different from a zoo, so I apparently failed to see the subtleties. The mindfulness activities have been very successful for helping our friends calm their bodies when needed. The finger mazes have been particularly popular!
PREK2: During group time we read the story “What Should Darla Do?”. The book allows us to pick what choice Darla should make in a social situation and then tells us the outcome of the choice made. We talked about what choices we thought worked out best in the end.
Breakfast: Whole wheat bagels with fresh orange slices.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara and cheddar cheese, fresh oranges/bananas and carrots/green beans.
PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh peppers and carrots slices.
Link to Photos:2023-12-04
Enjoy the rest of the afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Happy Friday and rainy 1st day of December.
This morning we began engaging in a variety of activities. We placed the textured stepping circles on the carpet and walked on them, looked at a book on the reading step and climbed up onto the habi-trail and stood up at the ladder.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a shaving cream and corn starch sensory experience with Miss Tina. Waffle blocks and round caps were added for us to explore with in the shaving cream. Miss Tina also asked us if we could identify any of the colors of the items on our trays.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh watermelon/cantaloupe.
Lunch: Turkey lunch meat, whole grain wheat tortillas, carrots and fresh cantaloupe/pear slices.
Afternoon Snack: Colby-Jack block cheese slices and whole grain Ritz crackers.
Wee Sprout: Peas.
Have a great weekend!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-01