Good afternoon!

This morning we engaged in the housekeeping kitchen and used our imaginative play skills to cook with our play food. Both Arthur and Eliza used the orange pan, while Dax used the purple bowls.

We enjoyed dressing and wrapping up our baby dolls in silk scarves, baby hats, and a sleep sack.

We also gathered in the front area of our classroom to build and play trains with another friend, the wooden cars, looking out the window and climbing on top of big plastic blocks.

Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture with fresh bananas.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh pineapple slices, broccoli, and toasted whole grain wheat English muffins with butter.

Afternoon Snack: Hummus with blue corn chips.

Wee Sprouts: Orange bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Tina

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pears.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh cucumber/carrot.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/14

Good Afternoon!

This morning Emily asked if we could have the jingle bells to shake while listening to the song Jingle Bells. We all loved shaking our bells to the music multiple times.

We then all headed over to turn our big plastic blocks into row boats while we listened to the song, Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

Several friends then went to build with the stackers and colored beads.  Paige used her imaginative skills and turned her stacker over to make it into a table and used the color beads to make a birthday cake.  Hannah helped her make the cake.

Breakfast:  Corn Chex cereal and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Refried beans and shredded cheddar cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, cucumber slices and fresh oranges.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with cream cheese and 1/2 a cheddar cheese slice.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Our three kindergarteners came up to the island one at a time to complete their sign in. Today’s sign in focused on punctuation. On their sign in, there were three categories: period, question mark, and exclamation mark. We read six sentence strips and they had to determine which group each sentence went into. The sentences that ended in a question mark seemed to be the easiest to identify for most children.

A few of our older children attempted making pot holders for the first time this morning. It was challenging to say the least! It was the first time they explored this activity and they kept with it for quite some time. We’ll continue to offer it and like with almost anything, their confidence and comfortability will improve with time.

Enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh apples.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh clementines/pears, and fresh cucumber/snap peas/carrot.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cucumber/carrot.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/13

Good Afternoon!

This morning Paige asked to read teacher books.  Miss Bekah chose from our stack several of our favorite paperback books.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in our corn and bean sensory table.  We used a variety of cups and scoops to practice our scooping and pouring skills.  Emily noticed that a scoop was similar to her brother, Ben’s formula scoop.

We then engaged ourselves in the housekeeping area.  Paige and Hannah were trying on different headbands, Arthur was busy mixing in the sink using the wood people and Emily was putting a sleep sack on her baby doll.

We then bundled up to get some fresh air.  We enjoyed going down the slide, playing in the little playhouse or sitting at the table while talking to friends from the other classroom.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat English muffins toasted with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with butter and shredded chicken, cucumber slices and apple slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt, graham crackers and fresh apple slices.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Happy Monday!

**As a reminder, Wee Friends will be closed Monday, December 26th through Friday, January 6th.

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Using the unifix cubes, kindergarteners were asked to create their own pattern as well as draw it on their sign in page. Two kindergarteners chose an ABAB pattern while the third kindergartner chose an ABBABB pattern.

In K/PREK1 group, we read, ‘Those Shoes’. It’s about a boy named Jeremy who can’t afford the black and white shoes that his classmates have. Throughout the story, we witnessed his journey of Jeremy wanting to fit in as well as how he treated peers and friends with respect and kindness. The difference between a need and a want was addressed throughout the story. .

When we were done reading the story, we talked about three things that made up the story: characters, setting, and events. We talked about the main characters in the story as well as the many different places where the story took place. I asked for two events but children insisted, “We have more things that happened!”. So, we continued to write them down and when we ran out of room, group members still wanted to share a few more events that occurred in the story.

Enjoy the pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber/carrot.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/12

Happy Friday!

This morning while friends were building with Magna-Tiles, they used their imaginative play skills with the tiles they put together.  They shared that they were a camera and friends were busy taking pictures of each other and other items in the classroom.

The friends engaged in a painting activity with vehicles.  We used a variety of colors, dipped our vehicle’s wheels in paint and drove them all over our papers to make many tracks to create our paintings.

When the snow started to fall from the sky, we enjoyed watching it.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and bananas.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat bread/tortillas, red bell pepper slices and fresh pineapple.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Happy Friday!

Kindergarten sign in focused on opposites! Children were given seven words and they had to write the opposite next to each word. Before they started, we talked about the word ‘opposite’. A few kindergarteners are starting to kid spell which is when we stretch a word and they write the sounds that they hear. For example, ‘night’ may look like ‘nit’ when children kid spell.

The magnatile activity was made available again at the circle table so other friends got a turn exploring the magnatiles and bells together.

Enjoy a few more pictures from our Friday!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Turkey or ham on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper/carrot.

PM snack– Pretzels and starfruit/banana

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/9

Good afternoon!

This morning we engaged in different kinds of dress up. Some of our friends, like Hannah and Dax, tried different hats on. Other friends, like Paige and Emily, put on a fancy dress and silk scarf to dance while listening to the Let It Go song from the movie Frozen.

We had a great time using the Habi-trail slide as a huge ramp to slide our bears and balls down.  We also used the rails of the Habi-trail to hold onto, to help us maintain our balance while standing on our big blocks.

Outside we enjoyed playing in the sandbox, exploring the playhouse, and riding the teeter-totter with our friends.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with fresh pear slices.

Lunch:Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, watermelon, and orange bell pepper slices.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds with Wheat Thins crackers.

Have a great evening!

Tina

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Good Afternoon!

Our 12 week FAB cycle has come to an end so we’ve taken this week to go back and extend or reteach FAB’s from earlier on in the school year. Today’s kindergarten sign in focus was shapes, specificially the number of sides on a shape. There were four groups: shapes with 0 sides, 2 sides, 3 sides, and 4 sides. They had to draw as many shapes as they could in each category. When they came to the 2 sided shape category, a few of them shared, “There aren’t any shapes with 2 sides!”

The welcome activity was popular as children took turns sorting holiday colored manipulatives. Using a plate that was split into three sections, friends sorted the materials by color.

Later on in the morning, magnatiles were put out at the circle table but with an added feature: bells! Several children built a magnatile structure but used the bells to add detail to their creature.

Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh apples.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey and butter, fresh watermelon, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Birthday treat: homemade banana bread, starfruit, and cheese slices.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/8