Good Afternoon!

We are thrilled to introduce Miss Nina who will be joining the Wee Friends family this summer as a teacher! She just ended her freshman year at Ball State as an education major. She’ll be helping out both of our sites. She fit in perfectly right away! We can’t wait to get to know her more and spend time with her this summer!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat english muffins with peanut butter and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/17

Good Afternoon!

**Wee Friends will be closed Monday, May 30 for Memorial Day. Thank you!

Daniel was looking for something to do at the circle table this morning and he found a matching game which are his favorite! Soon, several friends were standing around watching him and then eventually, helping him find matches. The matches were rhyming words. For example, flag and bag went together. At the end, they had found all of the matches!

We went outside and were surprised to see several new additions to our backyard space!

The first new addition is a hoop for our new balls! Children took turns trying to throw the ball into the hoop. We saw some friends go right up to the hoop and place it in as well as friends taking a few steps back to challenge themselves as they tried to make a basket. There are so many different extensions to add into this hoop activity (addition and subtraction for example!)—we can’t wait!

When we started using the new blocks a few weeks ago, we were trying to figure out how to do the blocks and bikes at the same time given the space that we have.

Enter: new signs! Miss Tami also purchased new ‘street’ signs for us to use when children are needing to control their bodies in a space.

Children were thrilled to help out! They took the sign bases into the sandbox so fill with sand so that they wouldn’t fall over in the wind. Once the bases were sturdy enough, we attached a sign to the top and placed it on the concrete circle.

Breakfast– Whole wheat bagel with butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and black/kidney beans, fresh strawberries, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/16

Good Afternoon. What an absolutely beautiful day!

Our one year old’s are really starting to shine through with their words. Today, as Arthur was playing with the colorful textured ramps he says. “what’s that?” They are doing so well.  

We are extremely excited that their language is flourishing and can’t wait to hear many more words. 

Our sensory/art activity today was using water colors on small and large sized coffee filters. We used vibrant springy colors and took much pleasure in making them.

 

We then headed outdoors to enjoy this gorgeous day!!!

We have been very interested in drawing with chalk on the concrete paths vs the chalkboard. We had so much fun drawing all kinds of things.

Breakfast: Whole grain ix cereal and apples.

Lunch Whole wheat grilled cheese sandwiches, fresh yellow pepper and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with butter and cinnamon and fresh blueberries.

Have a great night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a great weekend.

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY, EMILY!!!!

We enjoyed our day engaging in many activities.

Reading books is always a hit with us as well as playing in the dramatic play center. When we went outside,  we saw that Miss Tami bought some new things for us to have fun with. The basket ball hoop was a a major success.

Breakfast: Whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese or cinnamon along with pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat Penne noodles with butter and shredded cheddar cheese, mixed vegetable and blueberries.

Snack: Banana and orange oat toddler bites. (Emily’s b-day snack and mozzarella cheese sticks.

Have a fantastic night.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

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

Lunch– Chicken breast on whole wheat bread, fresh apples/oranges, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Goldfish with cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/13

Good Afternoon and Happy Friday! I hope you all had a fabulous week.

This morning we engaged in playdoh. This is a fun sensory activity that we can utilize our hand-eye coordination skills when we use some of the playdoh tools.

During outdoor play some of us have really been into demonstrating our imaginative play skills  We have been pretending to be doctors, hair stylists, and even chefs.

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

Lunch: Whole wheat bread, turkey lunchmeat, fresh red peppers and oranges.

Snack: Whole wheat cheese crackers and mozzarella string cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh watermelon, and fresh cucumber/snap peas.

PM snack– Peanuts with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/pepper/cucumber.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/12

We want to give a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Paige today! She’s two years old… YAY! We love you Paigy-Pie!!!!

Today one of our older friends sat down on the floor and started doing some stretching exercises. That looked like fun to another friend, so she joined in as well to stretch her body! It was so cute.  

We were all happy about it being a little cooler outside today!

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with butter and shredded turkey,

Snack Paige’s birthday treat. Fresh fruit assortment and Blueberry loaf.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon. I hope you are all surviving okay with this heat today!

Please enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grin oatmeal with cinnamon and oranges.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortilla, cucumbers and apples.

Snack: Whole grain blue corn chips with hummus.

Have a lovely evening. Stay Cool.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Evie and Mack matched coins to the coin name for their sign in. They drew lines to the matches and used their knowledge of letter sounds to identify the coin name.

Social Studies: K.4.1 Explain that people work to earn money to buy the things they want. Introduce money names and values.

In K/PREK1 group, we looked at real coins and a real one dollar bill. On each piece of money, we talked about the characteristics of the coins, specifically the year that it was made! Most of the coins were made in the late 1990’s, which they thought was pretty funny that coins could be that old! We also talked about the amount that each coin was worth.

Social Studies: K.4.1 Explain that people work to earn money to buy the things they want. Introduce money names and values.

Children played a coin game in PREK2 group where they had to add coins to the piggy bank.

We got some quality outside time this morning before it got too hot. The smiles on our faces tell it all!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe/oranges, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Blue corn chips and hummus.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots/peppers.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/11