Today was Emerson’s first official day at Wee Friends! Welcome, Emerson, Nicole and Jerry! We are so glad to have in the Wee Fam.

One of the big works today was the creation of a rolly polly habitat. As it turns out, Emerson is also a big fan of our beloved potato bugs. Well into our habitat hunt, Emerson expressed “I still miss my mom.” “Would you like to name one of the potato bugs after her?” asked a teacher. “That way, when you feel that aching for mom again, you can visit Nicole, check on her, and give her lots of love.” “SURE!” exclaimed Emerson in a high pitched voice filled with glee!

And so begins the creation of our first summer habit. We welcome our newest lovely namesake, Nicole the Rolly Polly. And her dear Emerson, of course.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Cinnamon toast with bananas. Lunch: chicken and avocado on flat bread, strawberries and carrots. Snack: Homemade fresh fruit/yogurt pops and nuts.

Purple Porch Co-Op Bounty in today’s lunch:

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Between going outside, a little music play, and watching the rain come pouring from the sky, our day was filled with a little bit of everything! Well rounded days are the best!

This afternoon, Nora brought up a discussion about what happens to the ground when rain falls. Nora’s statement was, “Look! The ground is melting!” We talked about how the ground doesn’t melt but that it just gets wet. After the rain stops, the ground will become dry again. We also sang, “Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day!” Our song was unsuccessful.

 

For breakfast, children had toast with soy butter and apples. Lunch consisted of spaghetti noodles with marinara sauce, oranges, and corn. PM snack was cottage cheese and apples.

Have a great night!

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Between going outside, a little music play, and watching the rain come pouring from the sky, our day was filled with a little bit of everything! Well rounded days are the best!

This afternoon, Nora brought up a discussion about what happens to the ground when rain falls. Nora’s statement was, “Look! The ground is melting!” We talked about how the ground doesn’t melt but that it just gets wet. After the rain stops, the ground will become dry again. We also sang, “Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day!” Our song was unsuccessful.

 

For breakfast, children had toast with soy butter and apples. Lunch consisted of spaghetti noodles with marinara sauce, oranges, and corn. PM snack was cottage cheese and apples.

Have a great night!

We are always moving in the Wee World. We began today with the Blue Bus.  We are toying with the idea of taking an imagined safari this summer and we’ve begun our journey by collecting information from our Wee Friends. “What do you know about African Safaris?” was the question we posed. Our resident expert/world traveler, Marta, has been an invaluable resource. We’ll keep you abreast of our itinerary as the ball keeps rolling. –Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cereal and orange slices. Lunch: whole wheat pasta with marinara, orange slices and celery sticks. Snack: Apple slices and cottage cheese.

Happy Friday!

Here are a few pictures that were taken throughout the day!

For breakfast, children had corn flakes and pears. Lunch consisted of egg casserole, strawberries, and peppers. PM snack was rice cakes with hummus.

Have a lovely weekend! See everyone in June.

This morning, Elliott rode 2.9 miles from his house to Wee Friends.

Around 9am, we moved our classroom outdoors and kept very busy with all that our backyard offers Wee Friends. We weeded the garden, squished and washed with shaving cream, read books, built a fort, and saw a bee. When we headed indoors, we read The Bumblebee and the Robber by Eric Carle. We listened to and sang along to Laurie Berkner’s “Bumblebee Song”.  We created a bumblebee from linking shapes and again at the art table with clothespins. Celestia was back sneezing on her friends and enduring the many attacks that a crazy puppet invites.

Have a great weekend. –Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cheerios and bananas. Lunch: Farm fresh egg casserole, cauliflower/sweet peppers and strawberries. Snack: Rice cakes and peanut butter.

 

Happy Thursday! (Already?!?)

Today we say “Happy Birthday!” to our friend Naia! She turned two years old today!

Miss Melinda started off the morning with a little ‘follow the leader’ using shakers. We shook the shakers by our knees, belly, and arms! Friends listened so intently!

Miss Laurie stopped by with Celestia (one of her many puppets). She had a cold and couldn’t talk very well. Lets just say that some of our friends were a little weary of a puppet who talked. Tate, however, enjoyed the closeness and conversation that Celestia had to offer. The longer they stayed, the more we accepted her .

Nora let everyone know that, “I love sun hats!” while Tate and his sister Sloane had some one on one time on the bench outside.

There was not a cloud in the sky this morning. A few of our friends sat on the swing to take it all in.

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and banana. Lunch consisted of rice with black beans, apples, and corn/green beans. PM snack was Colby Jack cheese and pears.

Have a wonderful evening!

Loths happened today at Wee Frienths. First, the toothless and highly allergic Celestia (Thelethtia) visited us. She thneezed a lot.

Nexth, frienths painted our croc and then played a croc facths game. They had to ansther yeth or no when athked a croc  quethtion.

 

Then, they wrote the yeth anthers down.

Marta led an African Thafari.

We counted out loud, keeping time to a thong.

And we practithed thneezing in our hankies.

Hope your day is thpecial. –Celestia

Wee Thprouths: Cuketh. Breakfatht: Thereal and bananath. Lunch: Rithe with black beanth and cheesth, fruit thalad and mixthed veggieth. Thnack: Cheeth and crackerth.

Good Afternoon!

To start off our day, Saskia and Lulu headed into the kitchen where they worked with shaving cream. They got quite messy! There was shaving cream everywhere. We had fun though!

Naia, Lulu, and Saskia worked with one another this morning while outside. A friend requested to get the Legos out. Naia built a tall tower! Saskia and Lulu built cars and drove them around the deck.

Today was Saskia’s first attempt at climbing to the top of the log house. It was a success! She was so proud. It is an awesome feeling to see that smile on a child’s face when they achieve such an awesome goal!

The habitrail area was packed this afternoon. We crawled and walked around like crazy. Friends got some of their wiggles and giggles out!

For breakfast, children had eggs with cheese and peaches. Lunch consisted of melted cheese on tortillas, pears, and green beans/peas. PM snack was rice cakes with cream cheese and bananas.

Have a fantastic night.

What a fab farm trip. We kissed toads, shoveled horse poop, held chicks and bunnies, watched newborn lambs cuddle next to Mommy and rode a pony. Not a drop of rain fell upon us.

Before we left for the farm, we sat in a circle and wrote our own version of Old McDonald. (Have YOUR Wee Friend make up his/her own verses of this published, alternative version of Old McDonald.

Old McDonald had a cat,
It ate his furry, winter hat.
Old McDonald had a goose,
It ate his can of apple juice.

Old McDonald had a duck,
It ate his new, green, pick-up truck.
Old McDonald had a cow,
It ate ten bags of puppy chow.

Old McDonald had a horse,
It ate his rubber boots, of course.

Old McDonald had a pig,
It ate his sister’s brand-new wig.

Old McDonald had a dog,

It helped Miss Laurie write this blog.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cereal and bananas. Lunch: Grilled cheddar cheese sandwiches, peas and grapes. Snack: Bananas and cottage cheese.