Good Afternoon!

First, we want to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Rowan! She turned FIVE years old today! We were so happy that we were able to celebrate her birthday with her today.

For kindergarten sign in, children took five Wee Friend activities and sorted them in the order in which they happened. For example, children said they eat breakfast here before they sign in!

We read The Napping House in K/PREK1 group. Before we started reading, I asked how the story started. A friend responded, “The grandma is sleeping in the bed!”. I asked how the story ends and a friend shared, “There’s a rainbow!”—both were right! We also talked about a few specific events that occurred in the middle of the story. We checked our answers throughout the story and our group members did a FANTASTIC job at identifying the beginning, end, and middle parts of the book before reading it!

K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.

K.RL.2.2: With support, retell familiar stories, poems, and nursery rhymes, including key details.

Here’s a sneak peak at the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh cantaloupe.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears, and fresh cucumber/green bean.

PM snack– Rowan’s birthday treat: homemade pumpkin bread and block cheese,

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/5

Good Afternoon!

This morning we painted using our dot markers.  We talked about the different colors we were using to paint with on our papers to make our beautiful masterpieces.

We then were busy walking on our stepping circles and liquid square mats.  We felt the different textures with our feet and watched the liquid as it moved as we walked on them.

We then headed outside to get some fresh air and play.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal Squares-Brown Sugar cereal and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Peanut butter on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh pears, peas and mozzarella cheese stick.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with butter and cinnamon sugar mixture.

Wee Sprouts:  Red bell peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches with whole wheat bread, fresh strawberries/cantaloupe, and fresh green beans/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with butter and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh green beans/cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/4

Good Afternoon!

Today we welcomed our new friend Hannah and her family to our Wee Friends family.  We are so happy to have you in our classroom.

Ben and Dax pulled themselves up to the standing position at the window sill and the corner of the wall.  Dax held on to it to walk around it.  Eliza got up on her knees today and was showing us her crawling skills to get the toy she saw and wanted to play with.  What an exciting day for our friends as they hit a new milestone.

We were busy playing with doctor tools, looking at books on the bookshelf, tossing, carrying or shaking a variety of balls and building a train track for our train cars

We then bundled up and headed outside to engage in our favorite activities.

Breakfast:  Toasted whole grain wheat bread with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded roast beef, fresh pears and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

This week, one of the concepts we’re going to be talking about is calendars and clocks, specifically what we use them for. Kindergarteners had to write down what we use clocks and calendars for on their sign in activity.

Everyday in K/PREK1 group, we go over our calendar activity where we talk about the month, day of the week, date, and year. We also identify various holidays in each month as well as birthdays. We read, ‘A Child’s Calendar’ in group where each month was discusses as well as what the weather may look like in each month as well as holidays in each month. For the most part, that’s how children identify months; by important dates to them such as birthdays and holidays.

K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.

Here’s a sneak peak at the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

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

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 10/3

Happy Friday!

We had to say goodbye to one of our families today so we made sure to get in some hugs throughout the day. We’re going to miss James and his family so much but can’t wait to hear about their adventures on the east coast!

Enjoy a few pictures from our day!

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

Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups, whole wheat flatbread, fresh oranges, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Block cheddar cheese and goldfish.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/30

Happy Friday and last day of September.

Today is a bittersweet day for 2 reasons.  We say goodbye to our friend, Emma as they are moving to a new state.  We have so enjoyed having Emma for a little over a year in the Wee wee classroom, watching her grow and flourish in her development. We will miss you all and hope you keep in touch with us.

We also say, ‘ see you across the bridge’ in the Pre-school classroom as one of our friends is moving up.  We will miss having you in our classroom, but know we will still get to see you outside everyday.

Today we were busy building with the big wood blocks.  We lined them up and pushed them together to sit or stand on them.

We also stood at the windows on the habi-trail to watch our grass being mowed.  When we couldn’t see him anymore, we moved to the window on the reading step to watch him do the side yard.

We then all gathered in the front area to build and play with the trains and train tracks with Miss Tina.

We then headed outside to ride bikes, work on our balance skills on the balance beam, ride the teeter totter and scoop and fill containers with our shovel in the sandbox.  Dax and Emma enjoyed doing their activity with their siblings.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese/peanut butter (kid’s choice) and bananas.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat bread, watermelon and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Pretzels and Mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Kindergarteners got to choose one book from a small collection of books to work with for their sign in. They chose either The Gruffalo, Duck in the Truck, or Rainbow Fish. After they chose a book, they wrote down several characters in the story along with the setting and an event. A kindergartner enjoyed working with the book ‘Rainbow Fish’ so much that he asked to read it for K/PREK1 group.

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings, or events).

A still life art opportunity started off our morning at the art table! Miss Kim placed a gorgeous bouquet of flowers on the lazy susan. Children used oil pastels to draw the bouquet as well as talk about the colors they saw. They even helped research the flowers that were in the bouquet.

When we went outside, children quickly scattered throughout the yard. Some friends chose to ride the tricycles while others headed toward the sandbox or use the baby dolls in their play. Throughout the morning it warmed up but there’s been a nice fall crisp feeling to our morning outdoor experiences!

Breakfast– Kix and fresh oranges.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh watermelon, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Graham crackers with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a fantastic night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 9/29

Good Afternoon!

This morning we were engaged in listening to Miss Bekah read many favorite books to us.  We all took turns choosing different books from the shelf for her to read, before looking at books independently.

Friends then went their separate ways, to build with Duplos, to play in the cube and care for a baby doll and explore the wooden loose part manipulatives.

We then headed into the kitchen to work our fine motor, hand-eye coordination and color recognition skills to stack the pegs together to make towers on our peg boards.

Ben was full of smiles as he climbing up on the habi-trail and on the slide.

aBreakfast:  Kix cereal and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with turkey, broccoli and fresh strawberries.

Afternoon Snack:  Wheat Thins crackers and sunflower seeds.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

A few friends began their morning playing cooperatively with another friend.  Paige and Emma worked together with the balance and the colored beads to experiment with it to get it to balance.  Emily and another friends were busy having a birthday with a lot of conversation between them in the housekeeping area.

The majority of friends then headed up on the reading step to engage in looking at book.

We then headed to the kitchen to paint on coffee filters with Miss Tina. We used the tempera paint colors of green, purple and red with a circle sponge brush.  We filled our coffee filters full of beautiful colors.

We then headed outside to enjoy some fresh Fall air to ride bikes, give a friend a haircut and play with the baby dolls.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixtures and strawberries.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat English muffins with butter, apple slices and orange bell peppers.

Afternoon Snack:  Ritz crackers with cream cheese and fresh pineapple.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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