On the Southern Wee Dock, pirates have docked. On the Northern side, the Grinch. Both of these Bad Guys are finding lots of good work to keep Wee Friends busy.

Pirate Research. How many books do we have in our library with ships?

We found a mitten tree in the book The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg and decided to create our own mitten tree.

Friends created bookmarks with throat compressors and googly eyes!

Several pirate artists gathered to create pirate paper. We dipped white paper into coffee water and gave it a hearty bath. We watched the paper turn brown and smelled the yummy smell!

We listened to the soundtrack of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas as we turned the pages of the book. When the songs played, we stood up and created our own Grinch choreography.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumber slices. Breakfast: scrambled eggs and fresh fruit. Lunch: Rigatoni with marinara, whole grain bread and applesauce. Snack: Cheddar cheese and apple slices.

Hope to see you Monday at 3:45-4:15 for caroling and yummy treats to follow!

Have a good weekend.

Hello!

Our morning started off with a rousing rendition of house keeping play! Friends initiated play while teachers joined in. We made pancakes and eggs!

We talked about pretending to sip our cups or eat our food.

Children gathered around the faucet to fill their cups up with water.

P.K. really enjoyed his water! Clara used a spoon to pick up her bread. She took a pretend bit and said “yummy!”

P.K. made a long row of waffle blocks. He used his fine motor skills to put them together one by one.

Friends were invited into the kitchen where they worked with shaving cream. They ran their fingers and hands through the velvety white substance. We hid cars and buttons in the cream and our friends found them!

We had Mrs. Claus make an appearance!

Children took their hands and ran their fingers along the table to make a line in the shaving cream.

We all had so much fun! Children were much more willing to experiment with the shaving cream than the previous time.

While children were taking turns in the kitchen with the shaving cream, some of our Wee Wee’s experimented with circular rings while listening to music.

Some chose to put them on the ground and jump in their while some put them around their neck.

P.K. made a special train track this afternoon. He took his trains and pushed them down the track. Clara soon joined in the fun!

One of our neighbors has beautiful Christmas lights. Friends P.K. and Clara went on the ladder and looked outside at the lights!

We love sitting around the table eating our food and talking with our friends and teachers.

Clara started using a big girl cup today! It’s a special time in the eating portion of the day .

Boy, do we love soy butter!

It was an awesome afternoon snack!

For breakfast, children had cinnamon toast squares and oranges. Lunch consisted of chicken noodle soup, banana, and cucumber. The chicken noodle soup was great for those of us suffering from a cold and cough! PM snack was rice cakes with soy butter and string cheese.

Have a terrific night.

-Mindy

Wee Sprouts: Celery Sticks and carrots. Breakfast: Applesauce Malt-O-Meal. Lunch: Homemade chicken soup, cucumber slices and bananas. Snack: Cheese sticks and Goldfish.

Good Afternoon!

We saw ‘HIM’ today. Dressed in red and black with a long white beard. He was walking over to Wee Friends to participate in the wonderful caroling that went on throughout the neighborhood. Our friends were amazed at the sighting of Santa!

We watched out the window as our older Wee Friends started to walk around to different houses around the neighborhood.

We watched as they went across the street to sing to our neighbors.

Of course we wanted to hear the amazing singing as well. So we sat on the front porch and listened to our Wee Friends sing lovely holiday songs.

Most of our morning consisted of puzzles. We completed our puzzles by ourselves and with some of our friends. A few of us completed our puzzles without any help (WOW!) We were sure proud of ourselves.

We used our fine motor skills to put the pieces into the correct place. We had a lot of patience this morning as we worked on a few difficult puzzles.

Eve says, “Cheese!”

We gathered in the kitchen where friends took turns cooking up delicious meals!

Team work and cooperation are a wonderful tool to have during group play.

Eve stacked different sized cups together.

Friends huddled around Miss Marty as she read stories.

Throughout the day at Wee Wee Friends, many faces are made. We see silly faces. We see happy faces (which are the best!). We also see confused and frustrated faces (which happen to all of us at some point or another).

Eren and Emma played peek-a-boo!

P.K. wanted a book read to him at the end of the day. Miss Mindy asked if he could read the book to her instead. He talked about the book throughout and pointed to different important points within the story.

For breakfast, we had malto-meal and pears. AM snack was green peas. Lunch consisted of egg casserole with cheese and hash browns (delicious!), banana, and green peas. PM snack was goldfish and raisins.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Enjoy these photos from this morning’s caroling! THANK YOU Santa for your surprise visit and thank you parents, for joining us as we spread holiday cheer around River Park! Don’t forget we will be caroling again this Monday, 3:45-4:14, and invite you to join us afterward for cookies, cocoa and a short concert!

 

 

Wee Sprouts: Celery Sticks. Breakfast: Lisa’s Applesauce Malt-O-Meal. Lunch: Baked egg casserole, whole grain bread and clementines. Snack: Animal crackers and pear slices.

Have a great day!

 

Good Afternoon.

**Next Monday (December 10th), our Wee Friends are going around the neighborhood caroling. The parents were given an invitation to attend with their Wee Friend if they would like. We would like to extend an invitation to our Wee Wee parents that if you would like to come and join along, please feel free! You can take your Wee Wee child around to carol with the big kids and their parents! This is going to take place from 3:45 to 4:15. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

Here are some pictures that were taken throughout the day.

For breakfast, children feasted on cinnamon toast squares and banana. Our AM snack was peas. Lunch consisted of beef stew (yummy!), banana/orange combo, and whole grain bread with butter. PM snack was hard boiled eggs and graham crackers.

Have a terrific evening.

Wee Friends are very excited about our Christmas Caroling tomorrow! Here’s what we have planned for tomorrow (Wednesday) and Monday afternoon, our second caroling tour .

Wednesday 12/5: 10:30-11 We will be caroling around the block. If you would like to join your Wee Friend, please meet us in front of Wee Friends no later than 10:30. Here’s our route in case you can’t be there at 10:30: we will travel south on 29th street to Wall St. and turn left. From there we’ll walk around the block. When we’ve returned to Wee Friends, we invite you to say goodbye to your caroler and we head inside and jump in to creating your Christmas surprise!

Monday 12/ 10: We will be caroling the same route starting at 3:45-4:15. Please join us in singing and afterwards, we invite you to come inside Wee Friends for cookies and cocoa!

Don’t hesitate to ask any teacher for more details re: our caroling plans!

Our card exploration yesterday introduced many images of angels. We continued the conversation today by starting with the question: “What is an angel?” Here’s what we learned:

Arleigh: “A person with wings. Angels fly.”

Elizabeth: “They have wands.”

Lea: “They are princesses.”

Marina: “Angels are cold.”

Jada: “They are freezing.”

We studied Great Master paintings of angels from The National Gallery. Then we went on an angel hunt, seeking out pictures of angels that had been hidden throughout the classroom.

At the art table, Lisa created a huge angel mural and friends filled it in with bright colored tape!

Elliott and Max decided they would work three puzzles. As the angels floated about them, they achieved their goal!

Meanwhile, the girls found the angel costumes and created an angel improvisation with sparkly music that took them swimming through and floating high above the clouds! We caught raindrops underneath rain clouds, licked angel icing off angel cake, danced softly on fluffy clouds,  and slept soundly with the cool clouds all around.

With angels among us, we set out to top our tree with an angel. Lisa led a group of friends in this creation.

The Keepers of the Grinch created a car and enjoyed a long car ride.

Wee Sprouts: Celery sticks. Breakfast: Kix and fresh fruit. Lunch: Homemade beef stew, bananas and whole wheat buttered bread. Snack: Cheddar cheese slices and Goldfish.

Have a great day!

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

**Just a reminder that our holiday break is quickly approaching. Wee Wee Friends will be closed for two weeks, December 24th to January 4th. Thanks!

Our Monday started out with trains..choo-choo!. Friends helped one another put a track together. Once the track was assembled, children went and grabbed a few trains for themselves. Clara carefully put two magnetic trains together. She found out that if you put the wrong ends together, the train repel (don’t go together). We talked about this and why it happens.

Children got the waffle blocks out to build. Clara decided to put them in a straight row and hook them together.

Emma and Eve headed to the krinkle blocks where they used their fine motor skills to put the pieces together. There were a few pieces stuck together so Emma tore them apart.

Emma also improvised with the krinkle blocks by using them as a hair brush.

Friends kept themselves busy by showing interest in housekeeping. We got out all of the bowls and plates to put food on. Children served up different food for one another.

Bounce, twirl, shake! Emma enjoyed listening to music this morning. All of our friends light up when music comes on

During gross motor work, friends peaked through different holes and played peek-a-boo with their friends! Eve and Zoey were making one another laugh!

Eren looked out the window and said, “Ohhhh”. He must have seen something outside that he was interested in.

P.K. asked for books to be read to him. Even though he had a great nap, he let out a big yawn!

For breakfast, children had toast and pears. AM snack was green peas (our favorite vegetable). Lunch consisted of hummus on whole wheat bread, banana, and corn. PM snack was apples and string cheese.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

• Don’t forget this Wednesday at 10:30am, from Wee Friends, we will be caroling around our block. We’d love to have you join your Wee Friend and all us as we spread holiday cheer!

The Blue Bus is on hiatus ‘til January. With this change in our Monday schedule and two stay at home days left behind them, we found our Wee Friends full of energy, excitement and dare I say, a bit of frenzy?! So when all of our friends arrived, we regrouped, without our bus, and settled into our work.

A small group of friends sat with their dollies in housekeeping and learned a new holiday lullaby, The Coventry Carol-just singing the word Lullay on the melody line. They chose to continue singing to their babies, this time with Rock-a-Bye Baby.

We read  Mouse’s First Christmas by Lauren Thompson. Friends enjoyed guessing which holiday goody the mouse was happening upon. Afterwards, we moved to the art table, set out all of our Christmas cards and played seek and find for those very same goodies in the card’s artwork.

Lisa brought in ornaments to decorate our Wee Tree. Friends gathered ‘round and used sparkly glue and glitter to create their own ornament.

Melinda played soft, calming music and friends, almost always now, find a lovey and rest peacefully on the oval rug.

Tami brought in a gigantic poinsettia! Friends pondered its beauty while eating Wee Sprouts.

When Elizabeth, the Ballerina, arrived, we hurried to the dance floor and moved our bodies to several different songs and tempos. We stretched, squatted, spun around, pointed our toes and made our arms dance.

We wasted no time getting outside to continue exercising our bodies!

We found an earthworm and studied its length, color and texture. We decided to let it live and find its habitat naturally.

Friends always ask for towels to wipe the slides when they are wet.

We carefully watched several friends in a favorite gross motor exploration: toppling off of the see-saws.

And then hop on the train to catch their breath.

Many friends changed out of their play clothes into dry, clean clothes and we came in to eat PB and J on whole wheat bread, corn and applesauce.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole wheat peanut butter toast and pear slices. Snack: Cottage cheese and apple slices.

Have a good day.

Happy Friday!

We had low numbers today so we spent good quality time with one another.

Friends were on the jungle gym for a while this morning. Laughter took place and we sure did get some energy out!

Smiles, smiles, smiles!

Clara Rose was very independent this morning. A teacher tried to help her with a dress and she said, “No, me”. We watched as she stepped into the dress and put the straps over her shoulders. Once the dress was on, she was so very proud of herself. Independence is key at this age during play. Children become so proud of themselves during this period of time!

While the sun was hiding, we went outside to the cloudiness! We rode bikes, played in the house, and spent time in the sandbox.

Zoey is enjoying the soft areas throughout the classroom that she can enjoy. The cube is a favorite along with the pillows. Today while friends were napping, she kicked back and lay her head on the pillow to relax.

Giving raspberries is also a favorite too!

Step 2 is complete of our tree project! We used sprinkles to make the tree shiny and wonderful! All of our friends contributed and now we just wait until it dries!

We had no friends for breakfast today! AM snack was green peas. Lunch consisted of pita bread with cheese and turkey, bananas, and corn. PM snack was raisins and animal crackers.

Have a terrific weekend!

-Mindy