Good Afternoon!

This morning we were engaged in a variety of activities.  Dax and Eliza were using their imaginative play skills to play doctor together, Ben was using his imaginative skills to have his kitten drink from the bucket, Eden engaged with activities on the Zany Zoo Activity box,  Eleanor looked at a book and Dax was building with Duplos.

We also engaged with the object permanence boxes.  We worked our fine motor skills to place our ball or coin into the hole or slot and watched as it disappeared and then reappeared in the drawer or tray.

The older friends then headed into the kitchen to create a gluing collage with cotton balls and Q-tips.  The friends also worked to strengthen their hand muscles as they squeezed the glue out of the bottle onto their papers.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh blueberries.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh pear slices, sweet potatoes and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  White/blue corn tortilla chips and hummus.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures:  2024-01-24

Good Afternoon!

In PREK1 group, we played Shape Bingo after reading the book, ‘Butterfly Alphabet’. We worked on identifying several different 2-D and 3-D shapes. Some of the 3-D shapes were new to us so we compared them to real life objects. For example, a ‘cone’ like in an ‘ice cream cone’ or a ‘sphere’ like our globe.

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

Today we worked through a variety of activities.  Many friends enjoyed the color mixing with shapes sensory bin as they used eye droppers to create different hues and fill different shapes.  Others created three dimensional shapes like pyramids and cubes using Montessori beads.  In the art center several friends used water color.  We talked about how we could create mixed media artwork.  Some tried it out using pastels and colored pencils before applying the watercolor. 

PREK2:  During group today we read the story “Eating the Alphabet”.  After the story we searched for first letter in our names on the board.  We got to circle our letter as we went to our cots for rest time.

Breakfast– Oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh blueberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapple/oranges, and fresh carrot/pepper.

PM snack– Blue corn chips with homemade guacamole.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-01-24

Good Afternoon!

Enjoy some pictures from our shorter day!

Lunch: Refried beans and cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas, bananas and fresh cucumbers/red bell peppers.

PM Snack: Whole grain cinnamon raisin bagels with buttery spread and cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-01-23

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 friends came to sign in this morning where they were tasked on finding their name and coming up with a word that rhymed with a word they were given. William was given the word ‘sun’ and he said that ‘sun’ and ‘bun’ rhyme!

Later on in group, we read ‘The Cat In The Hat’ which offered up several opportunities to talk about rhyming words. I would randomly stop reading to see if they could identify the rhyming word that finished the sentence. They were able to fill in the missing word by using their knowledge of rhyming words and looking at the pictures that the illustrator drew.

K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.

In the are center we offered a shape building project.  Several friends looked at the examples of shapes they could build.  They either chose to build a traditional shape or create a shape of their own. We had a range of ideas from triangles to jack-rabbits!  One friend created two triangles inside of a square and named it a “squareangle”. 

PREK2:  During group today we talked about all of the different shapes and practiced naming them.  At the end of group we chose our favorite shape by name and put our name sticker next to (or on top of) it:)

Breakfast– Weather delay.

Lunch– Chicken avocado sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh pears/banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrot/cucumber.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-01-23

Happy Monday!

This morning we went on a bear hunt with our teddy bears while listening to the song.

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We then engaged in making music with our bells and shaker instruments.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with pegs and pegboards.  We worked on stacking them in a tall tower or on our patterning skills to make an ABAB pattern with them.

We then headed out to the habi-trail area to toss the balls with Miss Bekah.  We first listened for our names to let us know it was our turn to toss our ball to Miss Bekah. She then worked with us on rhyming and we listened for a word that sounded like our name to take our turn.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat elbow macaroni with red beans, fresh mandarin oranges and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh blueberries.

Wee Sprouts:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great evening and stay safe,

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-01-22

Happy Monday!

PREK1 group came to sign in this morning. They were asked to choose a piece of paper from the bottom of the sign in board where each piece of paper had to a shape on it. They identified their shape and had to tape it under the shape name. A few older peers were able to identify the correct shape name by looking for the first letter sound in the word. For example, Hannah had the shape ‘hexagon’. She was able to find the word ‘hexagon’ because she knew the letter sound of ‘h’.

K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.

This morning a wee friend asked if she could have a popsicle stick  so she could make her drawing into a puppet.  Of course we provided it, and since it was a great idea we decided to build on it.  We got out yarn, eye balls, tissue paper, beads and glue, offering creative ways to make puppets.  Several friends joined the puppet making activity immediately.  A couple of friends chose to use tape instead of glue so they could use them right away…great forethought!  Three of our older friends chose to put on a puppet show in the art center window for all of the kids who were working there!

This morning we explored shapes as a welcome activity.  We found ways to arrange the shapes in interesting patterns on top of a mirror.  Some older friends enjoyed building smaller shapes into different larger shapes, like triangles build into squares of hexagons!

As always, such creative journals from our PREK2 journal group!

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with cheese and marinara sauce, fresh pears/clementines, and fresh carrots/pepper.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers and clementines.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and bell peppers.

Link to Photos: 2024-01-22

Stay warm everyone!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Snowy Friday!

Today we celebrated a birthday!  Our friend Charlotte turned a year old.  We are so happy we were able to celebrate with you.  We hope you have a great birthday weekend!  Thank you for the delicious snack.

We headed into the kitchen to paint with watercolor ice cubes.  We all loved watching the ice cube melt as we moved it around onto our papers to create our paintings using a variety of colors.

Enjoy some pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch: All natural oven-roasted turkey slices, peas, fresh pineapple, and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  Annie’s Sea Salty crackers with hidden veggies and fresh raspberries/strawberries (Charlotte’s birthday snack) and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers/yellow bell peppers.

Have a great weekend and stay safe and warm,

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-01-19

Happy Friday!

We enjoyed a creative morning in the art center making some abstract artwork.  We used colored glue to dot stripe and mix color on our paper.  Some chose to make images with the glue like sun shines and cars.  Others chose to experiment with how the colors mixed when layered.  They all turned out to be a lovely mixture of color and shape!

Adrian spent quite some time this morning creating a number with one hundred 0’s…which he did complete!  “I wonder what that number would be…” I said, to which Adrian replied in a matter of fact tone, “Oh, that’s a google plex”.  Upon looking this word up (which I admit was foreign to me) I found that he was correct. 

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana

Lunch: Cheese quesadilla on whole wheat tortilla with fresh pineapple, banana, bell peppers and cucumbers

PM Snack: Mozzarella cheese with pretzels

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots and cucumbers

Link to photos: 2024-01-19

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

We started off our morning by grabbing our stuffed animals (bears) and listening to “Going on A Bear Hunt.” Our friends marched around the circle as we looked for bears! Some other friends decided they wanted to have a meal together in housekeeping. They grabbed bowls and fruit for friends to eat. Then, we used the colorful stepping squares to make a path for friends to walk on!

Later, we engaged in sensory play with our sensory bin full of moon sand. Dax used a small cup to fill sand and said it was “food for shark.” Ben enjoyed filling up his bowls with his two shovels, then pouring it out like it was snowing! Lastly, friends got their gross motor muscles moving by crawling through our tunnel in the habi-trail area.

Breakfast: Corn Chex cereal and fresh orange slices.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh cantaloupe and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Wheat Thins crackers with hummus.

Wee Sprout: Red bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2024-01-18

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 friends came to sign in where they had to identify a peer in class with a specific number of syllables in their name! Each child found their name and the number next to their name. Then, they had to search throughout the class to find a peer with that number of syllables. We love working with syllables!

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

This morning Arthur was interested in measuring things.  We started with measuring and comparing weight.  We brought out the scale and some materials of different weights.  We experimented with making the scale rise and fall.  We talked about what objects were heavy and which were light based on what we observed. Some of us were interested in balancing the scale and tried different combinations of objects to get the scale balanced evenly on either side.

This morning we spent some time making patterns using unifix cubes during our welcome activity.  We flipped through the pattern book and worked on trying to create the patterns we saw.  After a while a group of kids wanted to make a very long line of unifix cubes.  We decided to create the challenge of stretching our line all the way across the house keeping area.  Not only did our group rise to the challenge but they did it twice!

Breakfast– Kix and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and seeds

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-01-18