Today we welcomed Alma (our first WeeWee graduate) to Wee Friends!

Congratulations Alma, and Welcome!

This morning, a handful of friends traced alphabet letters with a marker. Other friends sorted heart, star and circle shapes into like groups. F.6.2 Combine strokes and shapes to represent letters. F.6.10 Use the correct grasp of writing tool. F.3.9 Sort a group of objects by more than one way. F.3.10 Name groups of objects.

Our girls (especially!) are spending a lot of time with the baby dolls, wrapping, feeding, washing, rocking and singing to them. F.3.28 Pretend to take care of a doll by feeding and other activities. F.3.29 Play the role of different family members through dramatic play. F.3.30 Discuss members of the family and their roles.

Shaving Cream!

All of our friends enjoyed getting ooey gooey creating art with shaving cream, tempera paints and construction paper. F.2.16 Demonstrate increasing skill in using different art materials. (e.g., paper, paint, clay, scraps, buttons). F.2.19 Use a variety of materials (e.g., crayons, paint, clay, markers) to create original work.

Before rest time we read Grandparents Around the World, discussing our own grandparents: their real names, what we call them and which country or state they live (lived) in. We asked “Do your grandparents live close or far?” F.3.32 Ask questions about families. F.5.4 Notice people’s skin and explore the differences. F.5.7 Discuss how grandparents and older people look and act different from children.

For lunch, we served whole wheat pizza with turkey, cheddar and cream cheese, watermelon and WF fresh lettuce with cucumber/carrots.

Have a great day!

“Bucket!!”

Several weeks ago, Nate and Owen (thanks, too, Aimee and Kevin!) brought Have You Filled Your Bucket Today? to Wee Friends! This “Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids” led us to a conversation about the ways we can treat others (and fill their buckets!) with kindness. After reading the story, each friend received a bucket with their name on it and then made a kindness deposit into a friend’s bucket. We decided whenever we saw these kindnesses occur, we would shout “bucket!” The buckets are hung in the art room so friends can make regular deposits.

Some older Wee Friends sorted and patterned old thread spools. A few younger friends created families of spools, identifying mother, father, baby etc….

Our Family Study is well underway and we would like to invite you to create a family collage with your child!
Today or tomorrow you will find a piece of construction paper in your child’s cubby upon which you can glue pictures of your family that your Wee Friend would like to share with his/her classmates. Some ideas to ignite your imaginations are: pictures of your house, beloved pets, favorite dollies, vacations, food-anything that says “this is me!”. Create them at your leisure over the next couple weeks and when you are ready, your child can bring them to school and share them!

DON’T FORGET TO BRING A SWIMSUIT FOR YOUR CHILD!

For lunch today we served whole wheat pasta with carrots, blueberries and yogurt/cinnamon dressing, corn and string cheese.

Happy Friday!

This morning we started our day asking the question “How many people are in your family?” Several friends charted their answers with check marks. We then played a felt board math game “How Many Feet Are in the Bed?” asking friends to add up how many feet would be in the bed if all their family members were all tucked in!

Miss Charlotte delivered 13 dozen eggs this morning! Don’t forget they are always for sale! Wee Friends created an assembly line system and helped her put them in the fridge.

We learned the song “We Are Family” and used instruments to practice a 4 count rhythm.

“We are Family! 2-3-4- I’ve got all my Wee Friends with me!”

Before rest time, Melinda read Dad and Pop, discussing who dads and pops are and their roles in the family.

For lunch we served Miss Charlotte’s farm fresh eggs, scrambled, watermelon, green beans and toasted whole wheat pita. Some comments we heard about the eggs were:

“Miss Charlotte’s chickens sure know how to make good eggs!”

“Those potatoes are really good!”

“These eggs are crazy good!”

For snack, we’ve planned blueberry muffins with fresh blueberries! Thanks Alexandra G.!

Have a great weekend!

We started our week with the question “What Makes A Family?” We have since explored and had conversations about all sorts of families: families of books, letters, shapes, humans, insects to name a few. We determined that love is a common thread in families. Yesterday we read The Middle Child Blues which led us to a discussion of ‘the middle’. We explored our environment to find things ‘in the middle’. We discussed birth order and which of our WF are the middle child. As our older friends journaled, math and science (and philosophical perhaps?!) concepts arose such as “can you measure love?” and “which square is in the middle”. Today we noticed that our friends have been creating houses out of boxes and blankets during their imaginative family play. We created a message board asking “How many floors are in your house? How many rooms are in your house?” A few friends then moved to the art table to sketch their own homes with pencils and markers. F.3.32 Ask questions about families. F.2.13 Break apart a whole quantity of something into a set. F.4.13 Follow instructions to place an object “between” two things. F.5.4 Use any descriptive word or gesture to express amount or size. F.3.14 Give information about where she lives (e.g., street, telephone number, house). F.3.16 Describe features of familiar places (e.g., buildings, stores).

The tumblers tumbled and we all enjoyed a gorgeous morning outside!

For lunch we served whole wheat tortillas with refried beans and cheese, fresh lettuce (from our garden!) with cucumbers/ranch and granny smith apples.

Have a great day!

What a beautiful day! We have opened the windows and are enjoying the cool, refreshing breeze blowing through our classroom.

This morning, most of the children spent a large amount of time using liquid water colors to paint themselves, family members and a variety of warriors & princesses.

In other parts of the classroom, children were found in housekeeping playing doctor, in the truck room making magnatile structures and making an advance highway system with raised roads, and in the science room exploring the moon sand. There was also a lot of dancing to a variety of soft CD music. Friends paired off and communicated to one another who was supposed to twirl and who was supposed to hold. It was lovely, creative, and the children remained in control of their bodies the entire time.

For lunch we had brown rice with red beans, cantaloupe & watermelon, and green peas.

Take time to enjoy the sunshine today!