Welcome to November!

Our friends were VERY excited to go out and play in the snow today! Please HELP us by:

*Boldly LABELING all your child’s items.

*Providing WATERPROOF MITTENS (NO gloves as they cannot get them on and off independently).

*Making sure your child has everything they will need here for outside play in cold & wet weather: a warm coat, boots, a hat, mittens, and snow pants. 

*If you want to take items home daily, they will generally be found hanging on our clothes line at the back of the classroom other than their coats.  Having snow pants and mittens that stay with us is ideal.

Thank you parents for coming to the Halloween parade yesterday afternoon!  The kids were so excited to show off their wonderful  consumes to parents and friends!  If you want to check out more pictures from Halloween there are more in the photo album for today.

Everyone enjoyed a wide range of activities today.  There were requests for more witches brew in the sensory bin so we gave it another day for the kids to enjoy.  We also made several large collaborative partner paintings this morning.  Friends who who wanted to make a giant painting picked a partner.  Then the pair made one painting for themselves and one for their partner to take home.  We also enjoyed plenty of building and playdough.  We wrapped up the morning with a romp in the seasons first snow!

Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh apple slices

Lunch: Scrambled farm fresh eggs with fresh orange slices, carrots and cherry tomatoes

PM Snack: Popped corn with raisins

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers

Link to Photos:2023-11-01

Enjoy the snow while it lasts!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Halloween!

This morning our friends worked on lining up wooden blocks in a straight line so that others could practice their balancing skills on them.

Eden and Eleanor showed great sharing skills! They would take turns passing a spoon back and forth. They also worked on crawling and trying to pull themselves up on the play kitchen counter.

We made our way to the kitchen to engage with playdough and use different Halloween-themed cookie cutters. Each friend got a different shape such as a witch, a bat, and a pumpkin.

We also took turns with the object permanence boxes and the shape stackers.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with pear slices.

Lunch: Refried beans and shredded Colby-Jack cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh green apple, and yellow bell pepper.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening and stay warm!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-10-31

Happy Halloween!  It was a fun and festive day at Wee Friends!

Breakfast: Kicks cereal with blueberries

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread with special Halloween ghost bananas, cucumbers and carrots

PM Snack: Halloween peanut butter raisin and cracker spiders

Wee Sprouts: Fresh orange bell peppers and carrots

Link to photos:2023-10-31

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Monday!

This morning William decided he was going to interview the entire class to find out what everyone’s favorite color was.  He created a chart all by himself with a dot of each color that his class mates could choose from.  He asked each friend and made a check mark next to the chosen color.  As he worked,  other friends noticed what he was doing and decided to collect their own data.  Later we each made a graph of all of the collected data to find out what it told us about our classrooms color preferences. 

Breakfast: Whole what bagels toasted with butter and banana

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with beef and fresh orange slices, carrots and cucumber

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with gram crackers

Wee Sprouts: Fresh tomatoes and bell peppers

Link to Photos:2023-10-30

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

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Good Afternoon!

We began our morning climbing on the habi-trail ladder, going down the slide, looking through the color rings, driving the bulldozer and car hauling truck around the carpet and building with the hollow blocks.

We then headed into the kitchen for a sensory experience with our big pumpkin.  Miss Bekah cut it open for us to explore the pulp and seeds. We each reached in to grab some and pull it out.  Dax said “uck” at first, but then when he began to play with it he said, “sticky”.  Miss Bekah also used other descriptive words to help us describe the feeling of it like cold, gooey and slimy.

We then bundled up and headed outside.  We ran around the circle, scooped, dug and drove the dump truck in the sandbox and since it is Monday, we got the see the trash truck come down our street!

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh plum slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with black beans, fresh cherry tomatoes and fresh pear slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Corn.

Have a great evening and stay warm,

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2023-10-30

Happy Friday!  Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Ham lunch meat on whole grain wheat bread, fresh oranges/pineapple and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Pretzels and mild cheddar block cheese slices.

Have a great last weekend in October!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2023-10-27

Good Afternoon and Happy Friday!

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: whole grain rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pineapple.

Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh cucumbers/carrots/bell peppers.

Snack: Pretzels, mozzarella cheese stick, and fresh blueberries.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/carrots/bell peppers.

Link to Pictures: 2023-10-27

Have a wonderful weekend!

~ Wee Friends Teachers

Good afternoon!

Today is our friend Eden’s first birthday! We enjoyed sharing this special day with you and hope you have a great rest of your birthday.

Our friends explored the color pyramid squares with the sunlight. They put them up on the windowsill and looked through them. Dax and Eleanor looked at their friends through the rails of the Habi-trail and shared big smiles. Another friend made music with the piano and Eden worked on taking Little People dolls out of the basket.

We made our way to the kitchen to engage in some sensory loose parts play. We used metal spoons and tongs to pick up dominoes and pom poms.

Outside, we enjoyed playing in the rock area with trucks and using our imaginative skills to cook in the play kitchen.

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex cereal with fresh plum.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, yellow bell pepper, stark crimson pear slices.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds with whole wheat Triscuits crackers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-10-26

Good Afternoon!

We started off the morning with several different activities including a loose parts activity, puzzles, sensory bin play with kinetic sand, and building with various blocks!

After, we were able to get outside after all the rain yesterday and enjoy some sandbox play, climbing, and looking at all the different leaves that are starting to fall!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh blueberries.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, fresh bananas/pineapple, and fresh cucumbers/tomatoes/carrots

PM Snack:  Corn tortilla chips with hummus

Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers/carrots/tomatoes/cucumbers

Link to Photos: 2023-10-26

Have a great evening!

~ Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

Even though it was a rainy day,  it didn’t dampen our mood.  We brought down the red disc swing for everyone to take a turn to swing.

Miss Bekah also added a color block pyramid to the housekeeping area.  We enjoyed taking the pyramid apart and looking through each of the colored squares.

We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Bekah to engage in water play with real leaves.  Inside the table we explored using a baster to squeeze that water into and then back out, slotted spoons to scoop up the leaves and watch the water run through, tongs for picking the leaves up with and bowls to place them in or to scoop the water into and then pour it out.  During our play, we found that if we were to put the wet leaf onto our skin it would stay in place and we would have to use our hand to remove it from our skin.

We then headed out to crawl through the big tunnel.  We had 4 passage ways to choose from and a hole in the middle to pop up and look out.  We had a great time using it.

Eleanor enjoyed sitting on the reading step to look at a book and crawling on the habi-trail and peeking around to see Ben. Eden enjoyed exploring and looking inside of the Peek-a-blocks and another friend was crawling over the textured circles to feel them on his knees.

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh green apple slices, orange bell pepper slices and whole grain wheat English muffin.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus on whole grain wheat flatbread.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2023-10-25