Happy February!
Please enjoy some pictures of our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh oranges.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded pork, fresh pineapple and cooked broccoli.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Green bell peppers.
Have a wonderful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to Pictures: 2026-02-02
Happy Monday!
We kicked off our week in PREK1 group by starting to dive into groups and figuring out what item doesn’t fit into the group. There were four types of food on the sign in chart: three fruits and one vegetable. Children wrote their name under the vegetable as it didn’t fit well with the other three items. Of course, this led into a conversation about how some vegetables with seeds are technically considered fruit. It was a great and productive conversation between a few peers where they were able to state their thoughts!
Later on in group, we started talking about the four main text genres. Today, we read a book from the ‘fiction’ text genre. We read ‘Tops and Bottoms’. Even after the first sentence of the story, we knew it was a fiction story! We filled in a chart where we wrote the book we read today as well as the text genre that it belonged to!
K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.
K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).
This morning, we offered a sorting activity at the round table which encouraged friends to sort by color and shape. Kids looked through the tray of objects and picked out all of the items that matched the color of their tray. Further, some kids sorted the objects within their tray by shape. As kids worked, many of them realized they could build something with their objects. One friend made a “blue box” to put all of her blue things into. Another friend made a red playground for her red bears. Everyone had fun figuring out what they could make within this open ended activity.
Please enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh orange slices.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with beef and kidney beans, fresh pineapples/grapes/banana, and fresh cucumbers/green beans.
PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/green beans.
Have a great day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2026-02-02
Happy Friday!
We engaged with translucent shapes and buttons this morning, looking at all the colors and shapes that we saw.
Then, a couple friends used baskets to collect books, and we all spent some time looking at books.
Breakfast: Whole grain rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh pears.
Lunch: Sliced rotisserie chicken breast lunch meat, whole grain wheat bread, fresh pineapple and fresh green bell peppers.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Goldfish crackers and Colby-Jack block cheese.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber
Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm!
WWF Teachers
Link to Pictures: 2026-01-30
Happy Friday!
It has turned into a whole week of learning about storms in our child lead curriculum. This morning we continued full steam ahead with our child lead storm interest. A friend came in asking if we could make a hurricane today! We decided to create the very large cloud that forms in a hurricane. We talked about how it rotates the same way a tornado does, except it is very large. We also learned the new word “Coriolis Effect”. Older friends learned that this means in our hemisphere, the hurricane will turn counter clockwise. We tried spinning our hurricane cloud counterclockwise on our model. One friend shared that he had learned about the storm on Jupiter that looked like this and has been going on for one hundred years.
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Ham and cream cheese roll-ups with whole wheat tortilla, fresh honey dew melon/pears and fresh snap peas/cucumbers.
PM Snack: Pretzels and block cheddar cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.
Have a great weekend!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-01-30
Good Afternoon!
This morning, one friend built a Magna-Tile house with a cow inside it. Many of her friends joined her and looked at the house and the cow inside.
In the kitchen, we engaged with polar bears, snow, water and ice cubes in our blue Tuff tray!
Breakfast: Kix cereal and fresh pineapple/apple slices.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, fresh orange and cooked corn
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Triscuit crackers with peanut butter
Wee Sprout: Mini sweet peppers
Have a terrific evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-01-29
Good Afternoon!
Our PREK1 friends came to sign in this morning where they chose an item from our classroom. They identified its shape and taped it inside the larger shape on the board.
Later on in group, we filled in a shape chart! There were several 2-D shapes that we identified and counted the number of sides and vertices of each shape. We noticed a pattern pretty early on; the number of sides and vertices are the same for each shape. We also loved the word ‘parallelogram’!
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
This morning, we had some more interest in creating “jar storms”. A friend asked if we could learn about tornadoes so we created one in a jar. We used our small model to learn about what is happening in a tornado. First, we added a teaspoon of dish soap to a tinted jar of water. We also added a little glitter and some beads to act as “debris” one might find on the ground in the path of a tornado. Next, we used a long spoon to stir up a funnel. We could see a tornado form in our jar and reach to the ground, picking up the debris. We noticed that smaller debris was lifted up into the tornado, while larger debris was moved across the bottom of the jar but remained low in the water. We learned that a tornado acts much like this when it picks up objects off of the ground. We also noticed that when we put the spoon back in, the tornado dissipated. We talked about how a tornado does this when it hits large land formations such as mountains. Another thing we explored was jar shape. We tried different shapes and found that the tall thin cylinder shaped jar worked best!
There were several younger friends who became very interested in trying to catch the debris in the jar, so we set up an area where they could follow that inclination to do some fine motor work!
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh pears.
Lunch: Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh pineapple/pears, and fresh cucumbers/green peppers.
PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter with sunflower/pepita seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers/snap peas.
Have a wonderful afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2026-01-29
Good afternoon!
Earlier in the week, we talked about the number of sides specific shapes have. Today, we focused on the number of vertices each shape has. Friends came up to the PREK1 sign in board where they chose a shape name, searched the board for that shape, and used a marker to circle all of the vertices of their shape.
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
This morning one of our kids said he wanted to make a lighting storm in a jar. He said he had seen this happen somewhere, though he couldn’t remember where. I told him I knew how to make a rain storm in a jar. He said he would like to do that…so we went with some child lead curriculum and set up the rain cloud experiment. Kids picked a color for their precipitation. We filled a jar with water and added a shaving cream cloud on top. Kids used an eye dropper to fill their cloud.. The color eventually began to trickle down from the cloud as it would fall from a cloud into the sky. Lots of kids tried this and enjoyed the experiment.
We had a baking project going on in the kitchen as friends helped make oatmeal apple muffins to go with lunch. Everyone really enjoyed the muffins and wished there were more!
We have been using a variety of objects to make shape paintings this week. At the easel we tried using paper rolls to make circle paintings. Several kids found they could make patterns.
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh pineapple.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with home made apple oat muffins, fresh pears/clementines, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.
PM Snack: Air-popped corn with raisins.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh snap peas/peppers.
Have a wonderful day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2026-01-28
Happy Wednesday!
Please enjoy some pictures of our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh pineapple slices, whole grain wheat English Muffins with cream cheese and cooked green beans.
Afternoon Snack: Homemade apple muffins with mozzarella cheese stick.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber
Have a wonderful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-01-28
Good afternoon!
We started our morning drawing with crayons and markers!
Then, we engaged in building with the waffle blocks.
Lunch: Refried beans and mozzarella shredded cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh apple slices and cooked peas.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain cinnamon raisin bagels with butter and bananas.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumber/orange bell pepper.
Stay warm and safe. Have a great evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-01-27
Good Afternoon!
We hope you enjoy a few pictures from our day!
PREK2: We read the story “I Can Do Hard Things” during group today. We talked about hard things we had done. We talked about how even though we had to do something hard, we were ok. We made a list of “hard things” we have done or things we thought might be hard to do.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapples/pears, and fresh cucumbers/pepper.
PM Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.
Have a lovely day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-01-27