As many of you have heard, or experienced, we have a very potent stomach bug filtering through our classrooms.  Yesterday, Lisa had a gut feeling and prepared your children with a new Life Lesson:  How to Vomit.  Step by step she explained what was happening to their bodies, how it feels, and how to aim their vomit into best scenario receptacles: toilets, trash cans, plastic bags, etc.  It was good timing as we have 4 more kids out today with the bug and we hope the Life Lesson helped them through it!

Tomorrow is our Valentine’s Exchange.  PLEASE PUT VALENTINES (IN A BAG) ON THE KITCHEN ISLAND WHEN YOU ARRIVE. We will have children deliver Valentines after naptime.  All valentines will be sent home to be opened and enjoyed with you!

For breakfast we had English muffins and raisins.  Wee Sprouts were carrots.  Lunch was chicken salad on whole wheat, broccoli, and banana.  Snack will be cottage cheese and apple slices.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Tami

 

Eye-hand coordination. That’s what we see developing during the game Heart Potato. Also give/take and sharing freely.

After our happy competitions, we saluted the flag with a march and a sky gaze at imaginary fireworks.

We jumped to our personal musical anthems. We know EXACTLY what kind of music we like!

We mastered letter writing by choosing to write words that interest us.

We focus on each friend and their voice and interests. Personal Wee journeys as we grow into the people we’re meant to be.

Happy Day all about your joy.

Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Cereal with oranges and bananas. Lunch: Cous-cous with chicken, fruit salad (pineapple/orange/banana) and corn. Snack: Cheese and crackers.

Tami’s husband Chaz here in my role as IT/Webmaster.

I just wanted to let you all know that we’re having some blog issues at the moment. You may be able to see the blog but we can’t seem to get the new ones to upload. I was already in the process of trying to move the blog to a new host and I guess I’ll be trying to finish that process tonight!

(It’s kind of like when you talk about replacing an appliance and it hears you and then quits entirely.)

Hopefully they will be back to posting tomorrow. If not, it’s all my fault!

Sorry for the issues!

Thanks,

Chaz

The swimmers wrapped up this session this morning and each will be coming home with a treat and an assessment. As always, Leslie was thrilled by their progress AND made a point to tell us to ask our Wee Friends what they saw at the bottom of the pool.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and bananas. Lunch: Hummus sandwiches, bananas and peas. Snack: Pear slices and cheese.

Hope you are enjoying this day.

Hello!
We are still fixing our picture posting issue.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese and bananas. Lunch: Whole grain flat bread with peanut butter, mixed veggies and grapes. Snack: Graham crackers and bananas.

We’ll see you at 4pm!

 

We were having blog problems uploading the pictures, so here’s just the text of today’s blog.  We’ll get all the pics to you as soon as we figure out why our program is being difficult.

Tomorrow, our dear Melinda is having knee surgery. She will be gone through the beginning of January. Should you want to touch base with her, she asked that you feel free to write her via email or snail mail @ melindawesolowski@yahoo.com or 134 River Avenue, Mishawaka 46554.

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow (Thursday 12/12) at 4pm!

Our day began with a sticker project. We set out stickers and black card stock and encouraged friends to create ornaments.

Ellie is deep into a study of her favorite book, Beauty and the Beast. We set out to lift ideas off the page by offering Ellie and later, several of her friends, red and green paper and tape to create roses. After Ellie finished her rose, she set it under a glass bowl. She will watch it in days to come to see how, with her imagination,  it might change.

As friends settled into independent play, here are some of the thoughts we gathered, about their work at hand.

Max, Elliott and Finn: “Let’s BBQ the Grinch so we can eat him. It will be like hot dogs without the bun.”

Zoi: “I’m drinking  milk.”

Eve: “I’m feeding the baby this.”

Clara: “I’m feeding my baby milk. He’s sitting in the high chair.”

Aislinn: “Ga-ga baby! We’re playing house with daddy and mommy. They are saying go to bed.”

Owen: “Go to bed baby. Ring-ring-ring! You can get up baby!”

Marta: “I waited for Lisa. I picket out this book.”

Ellie: “I’m building a big tower so the bad wolf doesn’t get up there and eat the pig!”

Elizabeth: “I’m making a wall for the Big Bad Wolf to not get up to the surface.”

Marina: “ This is the Big Bad Wolf.”

Enjoy your day. It’s a good day for a BBQ.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Malt-O-Meal and bananas. Lunch: Homemade ham and bean soup, homemade wheat bread and butter and bananas. Snack: Apple slices and string cheese.

 

We are still out as of 7:00 this morning. So sorry.

I will keep you posted as information comes in today.

Tami

  Dear Wee Friends Families,

I am very unhappy to report that AEP is estimating that it will be Thursday before our power is restored at Wee Friends.  I will keep everyone posted as I continue to call AEP each day to see if that changes any sooner.

I’m sure you have all heard in the news that Riverpark was very badly hit by the storm.  I am following the damage on our Riverpark Neighborhood Association Facebook page and the pictures are astounding. Just in our section of the 700-800 blocks (Jefferson to Wall), we had a line of winds that took down many large trees and the power lines with them.  So AEP is not just working on one issue, but I know of 3 separate power lines down within just a few block of us.  And there are more lines are down throughout the area.  There was a house on 23^rd completely destroyed by the storm.  The pics are all from our neighborhood.

As a reminder for those with YMCA swimmers, Tuesday swim starts at 10:00 for those who can transport their own children to the class.  The YMCA class will not reimburse you for a missed class.  The Blue Bus was canceled today and Jennifer, will however, tack the class onto the end of the session so that you are not paying for a missed class.

Once again, I am so sorry for the inconvenience of this situation.  Thankfully, this is the first time we’ve ever experienced an extended closing due to weather related issues and we are blessed with just losing power and clearing debris.

Tami

Good Morning!

Wee Friends recognizes that delays and closings are horribly inconvenient.  However, we balance that with the safety of getting our staff to work and being able to get the street, sidewalks and stairs safe for our clients.  Hence, the 10:00 delay for nearly all public school snow days rather than the close.

Please note that parents are responsible for checking the news for school closings on snowy/icy mornings.  If the schools are closed for odd reasons (cold), please check to blog as that is going to be our means of communicating any delay or closing information.

I have tweaked our weather policy slightly so I wanted to share it:

Inclement Weather/ Emergency Closing Policy

Wee Friends will delay opening until 10:00 on any day that Mishawaka OR South Bend Schools are closed or delayed for weather.  If we feel it is necessary to CLOSE FOR THE DAY, we will post the closing on the blog by 8:00 a.m.

VACATION DAYS

We are closed:

Thursday and Friday, November 28-29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Monday, December 23rd through Friday January 3rd for our 2 week Winter Break.  We will re-open on Monday, January 6th.

This information, as well as a handout outlining other WF policies as a yearly refresher, will be in your children’s cubbies tonight.

Thanks you for being part of Wee Friends!

Tami