Happy Friday!

**Just as a reminder, we will be closed next Thursday and Friday in observance of the holiday.

**We are in need of plastic grocery bags for dirty diapers. Much appreciated!

**For families who have older children: we’re asking that you have your older children stay up at the front of the house at drop off and pickup. With the snow and salt out on the sidewalks, we’re trying to keep as much as possible out of the main area of the house due to crawling children . Thanks!

The morning started off with a little jam session. Drums. Piano. Maracas.

We all put our maracas in the air and shook them at the same time. With all of the different maracas going at the same time, it was a beautiful sound!

Friends headed into the kitchen where they worked with pegs and number boards. Besides working on our fine motor skills, we also worked on counting.

For breakfast, children had malt-o-meal and watermelon. Lunch consisted of hummus on English muffins, broccoli, and pears. PM snack was goldfish and string cheese.

Have a great weekend!

                                                                      Hello from Wee Friends!

                

Today was a day full of alphabet spelling, block building, game playing, car crashing, and book reading.

 

This morning friends also had the opportunity to learn Finger Knitting! We practiced pulling our strings under, over, under, over our fingers and placing bottom loops over top loops. Very engaging manual dexterity practice.

     

     

Have a great weekend.

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Cream of Wheat and watermelon. Lunch: Whole wheat English muffins with hummus, mixed vegetables and pears.  Snack:  Cheese sticks and orange slices.

 

Good Afternoon!

Hope everyone had a great Thursday!

For breakfast, children had Kashi and banana. Lunch consisted of brown rice with chicken, oranges, and corn. PM snack was cream cheese and pretzels.

Have a terrific evening.

         

                                                  Wee Friends’ Cornucopia!

In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, today at Wee Friends we continued our exploration of what Thanksgiving is all about. We completed our cornucopia, filled with fruits and vegetables made from paper, salt dough, and paint!

We also explored what it means to be thankful. One of our Thanksgiving themed stories this morning described being thankful as “what makes you happy.”  Friends were given the opportunity to share what makes them happy on a special Thanksgiving placemat. We worked on writing, gluing and expressing our ideas through both words and pictures.

                 

                

                                                    

We’re excited to share our completed work with you soon!

Have a great day.

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Red pepper.

Breakfast: Kix and watermelon.

Lunch: Brown rice with chicken, celery, and bananas.

Snack:  Peanuts and bananas.

Hello!

For breakfast, children had English muffins with cream cheese and banana. Lunch consisted of scrambled eggs with potatoes, broccoli, and banana. PM snack was hummus with crackers and string cheese.

Have a great night.

Both bodies and minds spent the morning building: blocks, Trios, alphabetical order, puzzles, words, cornucopia fruit, book reading, game playing and paper weaving. We’re outside now building our cold weather stamina! Have a terrific day.

Wee Sprouts: PPC tomatoes. Breakfast: Peanut butter on rice cakes and pear slices. Lunch: Scrambled eggs with potatoes, watermelon, whole wheat flatbread and broccoli. Snack:  Hummus and crackers.

 

Good Afternoon!

**With the current weather we are experiencing (even though it’s November), here is the link to the handbook. The inclement weather policy is included. If you can remember back, this week last year we were dealing with tornadoes!

https://weefriendskids.com/handbook-policies/

**Also a reminder that with the winter weather, we ask that you limit your parking time so that everyone can easily find a parking space. Since WWF closes at 5:30, please make sure that you are exiting the environment by that time. If you have questions/concerns about your child or their day, please a lot extra time for this.

For breakfast, children had Kashi and banana. Lunch consisted of cheese and ham tortillas, broccoli, and oranges/kiwi. PM snack was cheddar cheese and bunny crackers.

Have a great night!

 

REMINDER:

As a reminder, we need ANNUAL shot records that are printed off from your pediatrician’s office and the deadline for this is January 5th.   (Those newly enrolled this summer/fall should already have a recent record on file.) Attached are photos from yesterday.

 

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Raisin Bran and orange slices. Lunch: Melted ham and cheese on whole grain flatbread, orange slices and broccoli/carrots. Snack: Cottage Cheese and raspberries.

 

Here’s a photo journal of the process our swimmers use to get to and from swimming. Enjoy your day!

 

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a terrific weekend!

We did a little research this morning. As we’re reading “Rumble in the Jungle”, we came across a couple animals that we weren’t too sure what sound they made. For example, the zebra and hippo! What sound do they make? We took to the internet to see if we could get our questions answered.

Through the internet, we got to listen to the sounds that these animals make. Since Thanksgiving is coming up shortly, we also researched what sound a turkey makes. Do you know that a turkey makes 14 total sounds!? For example, gobble gobble, kee kee run, cluck, tree call, and assembly call. We listened to all 14 sounds and found that they were all quite different from one another. Given our environment and following children’s leads as to what they’re interested in, we were all about the animals today!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and cinnamon along with banana. Lunch consisted of whole grain pasta with kidney beans, peas, and banana. PM snack was whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Have a lovely night.

-Mindy

We are nearing a few bigger WF/WWF closings:

Thursday and Friday, November 27 & 28th, for Thanksgiving

Mon-Fri (2 full weeks), December 22-January 2, for holiday break, re-opening on Monday, 1/5/15

Friday, March 6, 2015, Parent Teacher Conferences

In our classroom…

Yesterday afternoon, Jessica read I Love the Mountains adapted by Archambault and Plummer. Afterwards, she invited friends to re-create the illustrations with different shapes of paper, as in the book.  Look on the art room clothes line for their work!

And enjoy your weekend.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots

Breakfast: Kix cereal and grapes

Lunch: Whole wheat PB sandwiches, fresh apple/orange/pear slices and peas

Snack: Mozzarella cheese sticks and grapes