Good Afternoon!

To kick off our week, PREK1 friends came to the sign in message where they had to choose a word that fit into the group based on likeness. They were given the words orange, pink and purple. The44n, they had to sign under the word that fit into that group. They chose from the words green, finger, and carrot. Friends signed under the word green because like the group of words above, it’s a color!

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.

In PREK1 group, we started diving into text genres. Today, we focused on the text genre ‘fiction’. After reading, ‘The Day The Crayons Came Home’, we talked about what makes fiction books, fiction! Children started sharing books that they have at home that would be in the fiction genre. Throughout the week, we’ll read a book from each text genre and write it on our chart in the science area.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).

PREK2:  At group today we read the book “Today I Feel Silly” which reiterates what we are learning about labeling emotions.  We chose what emotion we felt today at the end of the story.

In the art center today we made paintings using Large, medium and small sized paint brushes.  We named which were large, medium and small as we sat down to paint at our tray.  We talked about how the brush strokes were also large medium and small.  Many of us preferred the biggest brush!  As we sat down to pant we also got to choose between warm and cool color pallets.  We talked about what warm and cool colors were, how they made us feel and what images they brought to mind.

In the sensory bin we explored small medium and large as we played in water.  Every item came in small medium and large including spoons, funnels, bottles, cups, tongs and eye droppers.  We worked on labeling small medium and large as out teacher asked what we had picked to play with.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh green apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh watermelon/strawberries, and fresh cucumbers.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green peppers and tomatoes.

Link to Photos: 2023-09-18

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Friday!

Today we engaged with our musical shaker and bell instruments.  We enjoyed making beautiful sounds together.

The friends then went into the kitchen to engage in the moon sand sensory table.  They were busy using shovels and scoops to scoop up the moon sand into their containers.

The babies explored the texture of pom-poms while the older friends were engaging in the sensory table.

We then headed outside to engage in our favorite activities on this beautiful day.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Turkey lunch meat on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh orange bell peppers and fresh cantaloupe.

Afternoon Snack:  Mozzarella cheese stick and Pretzel sticks.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-09-15

Happy Friday!  Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana

Lunch: Turkey on whole wheat bread with fresh cucumbers, carrots and pineapple

PM Snack: Pretzels and Colby Jack cheese

Wee Sprouts: fresh tomatoes from Asher’s garden! and fresh carrots

Link to Photos:2023-09-15

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good afternoon! Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, pineapple slices, and cucumber.

Afternoon Snack: Hummus with whole grain Wheat Thins crackers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-09-14

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 group sign in focused on the book, ‘Duck In The Truck’. They had to match the author’s words that I gave them to the illustration in the book. Earlier in the week, we started talking about authors and illustrators and what their job entails. Today, we specifically talked about illustration and how the words the author writes should match the illustrations that the illustrator draws/creates.

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

PREK2: This week  Today we read the story “Calm Down Cool Down” which teaches about what we can do to help us calm our bodies when we experience difficult emotions.  We talked about what might happen to make us feel difficult emotions and what we could do instead of hitting or pushing.  At the end of the book we made a list of calming techniques that we remembered from the story that might help us calm our bodies.  Some of us recalled what we heard in the story.  If we had trouble remembering we pointed to the pictures of what we might do. Some friends came up with other things they did to calm down like getting a hug from Mom.  If you would like to learn more about out MACK curriculum which focuses on self regulation follow the link https://weefriendskids.com/about-us/program-philosophy/ 

 

This morning was a hands on exploration of sunflower science.  Everyone dove into a closer look at the sunflower heads which were full of seeds.  As we explored with magnifying glasses and tweezers,  we noticed the tiny flowers still present of the fresh sunflower surface.  Several friends wondered what they were.  We got to talk about how sunflowers are actually made up of hundreds of tiny flowers.  Each flower gets fertilized by a bee and makes a single seed.  As we looked at how many seeds there were we could see how many flowers the sunflower was actually made of.  William was fully invested in this project for the entire duration of it.  He lead a movement to collect ever single seed and put them into a jar so see how many there were.  We brought out a big measuring pitcher and William backed it full with four cups of seeds from just the largest flower head!  This measuring project may continue tomorrow.  Over and over young children learn best from real things they can see and touch!

Breakfast: Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh pears.

Lunch: Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh cucumbers, and fresh pineapple/bananas.

PM Snack: Whole wheat cracker, peanut butter seed pizzas.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots.

Link to photos:2023-09-14

Have a lovely afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

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Good Afternoon!

Now that Fall weather is upon us, please make sure your child has a jacket for outside play for the cooler mornings and bring in some long-sleeves and pants for their extra clothes cubbies.  Thank you.

This morning we danced to the Freeze Dance and froze our bodies in a variety of different positions.

Then several friends took turns working on all the sides of the Zany Zoo Activity box.

We then went over to toss the balls in the habi-trail area.  We used our star rainbow mats and put them together for us to sit or stand inside to toss our balls together.  Some of our tosses even made our balls go up onto the habi-trail.

We then headed outside to enjoy some fresh air before the rain came.  Eliza explored a walnut shell, Hannah and another friend engaged with the trucks and Ben and Dax rode together on the teeter totter.

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, fresh green/red bell pepper slices, fresh pear slices and whole grain wheat bread toast with butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain flatbread with cream cheese.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2023-09-13

Hello Families! We had a morning of playful exploration and enjoyed the gorgeous weather!

PREK1: We learned what vertices are and worked on identifying how many vertices different shapes have.

PREK2:  In group today we read the story “Ruby Finds a Worry”  The book told how when Ruby ignores the worry it gets bigger but when she talked about it, the worry got smaller and disappeared.  We each thought of things that we worried about and remembered that if we feel worried that it will help to talk to a Mom, Dad, a teacher or friend to help calm our worry. 

During our morning activity we continued to work with shapes.  On the light table we explored the added experience of light and shadow as we build variations of hexagons.  Many of us constructed creative mosaics of shapes, expanding across the light table. 

In the art center we experimented with shape stencils and paint.  We tried combining them in different ways creating our own unique shape paintings.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon and bananas

Lunch: Boiled eggs with fresh cantaloupe, orange slices and bell peppers

PM Snack: humus with tortilla chips

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers

Link to Photos:2023-09-13

Enjoy this beautiful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

This morning Miss Jena got the dancing scarves down for us to dance with.  We were busy shaking our scarves to  the song, Shake Your Sillies Out.

We then headed outside to enjoy the Fall like weather.  We walked around the circle with the baby dolls, played with the dump truck in the sandbox, went down the slide and explored the sea animals and sea shells at the table.

Eleanor was exploring a stool from under the circle table while Eden was crinkling the soft pages of her book.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios and fresh pineapple.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh green bell peppers and fresh strawberries.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Green bell peppers

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2023-09-12

Good Afternoon! We had a busy morning exploring shape building possibilities, painting and observing our little biology project, tadpole to frog metamorphosis.

 

PREK2: Today we read the story “I Can Handle It” which gives us tools to deal with difficult situations and difficult emotions.  After the story we each thought of something that we felt was hard for us but we could “handle” anyway.  A couple of friends were too tired for group and chose to lie down right away.

We worked on our Tadpole journals this morning and made observations.  We talked about whether the tadpoles looks the same or different from when we did our last observations.  We talked about how observing means looking closely and thinking about what we are seeing.  We asked questions like “What are the tadpoles doing? What shape are they? What color?  Some of us felt the tadpoles looked the same since they have not grown legs.  Some of us thought they were bigger.  We drew the tadpoles in our journal and recorded our observations.  There were some very interesting observations made like “The tadpole looks like a black balloon!” 

Breakfast: Kicks cereal with fresh watermelon

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread with strawberries, orange slices and green peppers

PM snack:whole wheat bagel with cream cheese

Wee Sprouts: fresh carrots

Link to Photos:2023-09-12

Have a great day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Rainy Afternoon!

On this rainy day, we were busy inside.  We enjoyed dressing up in doctor scrubs, building with Magna-Tiles, cutting up our play fruit, looking through a color ring and used our imaginative skills to use a rug to cover up with and snuggle with a horse stuffed animal.

We then headed into the kitchen to paint on the easel with puffy paint.  Puffy paint is shaving cream, glue and paint gently mixed together.  When it dries it will hopefully puff up on our papers.  One friend used red and purple while the other friend painting at the same time used yellow and blue.  We then switched places for our second painting so we could paint with all the colors.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with black beans, fresh green pepper slices and watermelon.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh pineapple.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures:  2023-09-11