Oh the Earth is good to us! And so we thank the earth! For giving us the things we need, Wee Friends and their families….oh the earth is good to us.

We celebrated Earth Day by getting our fingers in the dirt and planting our seeds. Here’s what’s on board for our summer garden: carrots, eggplant, cucumbers, green beans, cherry tomatoes, spinach, corn and……….what else?

Other Wee Friends sorted beans.

The report from the Y is that the swimmers had a blast and worked hard.

Wee Sprouts: Sweet peppers. Breakfast: English muffins and PPC strawberries. Lunch: Toasted cheddar and chicken on tortillas, PPC watermelon and PPC cucumbers. Snack: PPC strawberries and bananas and peanuts.

 

Happy earth Day. Love, Pollyanna

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday weekend!

Today, even though she was at home, we want to send out a big happy 1st birthday out to Maya! We love you!

Here are a few pictures from today.

Breakfast was kix and banana. Lunch consisted of egg casserole with potatoes and cheese, peas, and banana. PM snack was cheddar cheese and pretzels.

Have a lovely evening!

Here are the Wee Friends who have signed up for this gymnastics session: Finn, Elizabeth, Marta, Clara, Elliott, Daniel, Eve and Sloane. If you have planned on enrolling your Wee Friend but haven’t done so, please do ASAP! Jennifer will have one class starting at 9:30am.

Among the many works of the day, was the question: “How many different ways can you sort?”. We set out a variety of silk flowers to better explore this question. Many times, we begin with an intentional focus for a lesson.  Many times, after that idea has run its course,  we leave the materials out to see what else our friends will discover. We watch. And many times (long after the intentional work is past) we think, “Ah!!!! THERE it is!”

 

Hope your day is sorting itself out nicely. –Laurie

 

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cereal and raisins. Lunch: Potato egg casserole, peas and orange slices. Snack: Animal crackers and apple slices.

Hello!

Here are a few pictures from today.

We want to wish Lucy an early happy birthday! Lucy will be celebrating Easter and her 1st birthday on the same day! We love you big girl!

For breakfast, children had english muffins with butter and oranges. Lunch consisted of turkey and cheese on bread, mixed vegetables, and banana. PM snack was fresh PPC honeydew melon and string cheese.

Hope everyone has a fabulous holiday weekend! Safe travels!

See everyone Monday!

We end our week with lots of new information about eggs and nests. Today we dyed hard boiled eggs and sampled fish eggs (whitefish caviar!). Almost ALL of our friends tried the caviar and one friend (Marta!) had four helpings. We spotted new buds on many of our trees and plants. We studied life-giving sunshine in patterns on our rugs. Finn and his parents turned our garden soil and added manure. We created oval sketches on logs in the backyard.  We have found this spring life.

 

Enjoy your long weekend and don’t forget: NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY (tomorrow!)

 

Wee Sprouts: Cherry tomatoes. Breakfast: Cereal and strawberries. Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwiches, fresh cucumbers and bananas. Snack: Kefir and bananas.  (All PPC produce and fruit)

Good Afternoon!

Eren requested magnatiles to start off his morning! Lucy and Lulu joined him in the kitchen where they made different structures such as a garage.

We also love playing with the cars as well as the magnatiles.

As we headed outside, Eren and Lulu requested bikes!

We headed into the log house where we used out dump and fill skills with different buckets and bowls.

We love getting vitamin D. It makes our bodies feel good!

When our older friends were taking their naps, Tate and Henri had a blast together! Forming and building relationships at this stage in their development is key.

We also mastered a few new tricks. Henri loved crawling throughout the habitrail! He had the BIGGEST smile on his face. Tate wanted down so he zoomed down the slide. He liked it so much he did it over and over.

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and cinnamon along with banana. Lunch consisted of whole grain rice with beans and banana. PM snack was string cheese and graham crackers.

Have a great night!

A quick reminder that Wee Friends will be closed this Friday (April 18) in observance of the holiday weekend. Thanks so much!

 

This morning, Sloane brought some sparkly colored hard boiled eggs to school. After she showed her friends, and explained how fragile they are, friends were invited  to create nest baskets.

 

We brought our reimagined bat cave outside and chopped hay to add to our duck nest.

 

We brought our bird nests (gourds) in and started to repaint them for this year’s spring birds.

 

We listened to Danny Kaye’s spectacular rendition of “The Ugly Duckling” and then looked at ourselves in a pond. “What do you see?” we asked.

 

Hope your day is filled with comfort!-Laurie

 

Wee Sprouts: Broccoli. Breakfast: Oatmeal and bananas. Lunch: Brown rice with spinach salad with Yogurt Ranch and bananas. Snack: Cottage cheese and fresh strawberries.  All our fruit and veg today is Purple Porch.

 

Good Afternoon!

**Last week into this week, we’ve had a couple bugs going around. One involves a stuffy nose and bad cough (welcome spring!) and we’ve also had a couple cases of the stomach bug. A couple symptoms have been vomiting and fever. Hope this passes us by quickly!

Apparently, it was one of those ‘spit your tongue out’ sort of days .

While the babies were off in dream land, Lulu and Eren explored ‘clean mud’ which is a concoction of toilet paper, borax, and ivory soap!

Lucy and Henri had a blast putting rings around their bodies and then trying to get them off. Getting them off served to be the more difficult part!

For breakfast, children had kix and banana. Lunch consisted of cheese and turkey filled tortillas, purple porch co-op watermelon and green beans (YUM!). PM snack was cottage cheese and raisins.

Have a lovely night!

Today was the last swimming lesson for this session!

Don’t forget to indicate (on the flyer hanging on the entry doorframe) if your Wee Friend is going to enroll or re-enroll. Thanks so much!

Friends began their day snapping our green beans from the purple porch.

When they swimmers departed, Mel re-read fabulous classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Ugly Duckling and then invited friends to the art table to turn ugly wooden ducks into beautiful works of art. Another small group of friends, reimagined the bat cave and got to work creating a duck nest.

We’ve enjoyed talking/learning about all different sorts of eggs. Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller showed us animals of all kinds that lay eggs.

 

Have an eggcellent day. Heehee. Quack quack.

Wee Sprouts: PPC (Purple Porch Co-op) English cucumbers. Breakfast: Cereal and PPC apple slices. Lunch: Melted cheddar and chicken on tortillas, PPC roasted green beans and PPC watermelon. Snack: PPC celery and peanut butter.

Sleeping earth, be gone! We are STILL looking for signs of spring life! And today the exploration took shape in a conversation about an egg. What shape is an egg? How do you like to eat an egg? What is inside an egg? So we headed to the island to answer these questions.

 

We fried, scrambled and hard boiled an egg. How are they different? How are they alike?

We hunted for oval shapes on our playground.

Inside the shell of our Wee World, we are BURSTING WITH life! We are watching and listening closely to the earth…starting to crack here and there….waiting to BREAK OUT!!!!

Enjoy this day. – Laurie

 

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers and carrots. Breakfast: Kix and bananas. Lunch: Whole wheat penne pasta with cream cheese sauce, apple slices and corn. Snack: Cheese and crackers.