Good afternoon!

Our friends danced to various songs this morning. We danced to “Going On a Bear Hunt,” “We Are The Dinosaurs,” “Party Freeze Dance Song,” and “Shake Your Sillies Out.”

Our friends then engaged with the BounceBlocks. Our friends worked on stacking them to make towers for us to stand on. We also placed the blocks on our heads and used our imaginative play skills to pretend that they were hats. Some friends also practiced their balance skills by standing on the blocks.

We then brought down the Sight & Sound tubes for our friends to explore. The tubes had feathers, bells, gems, balls and several foam shape pieces. We moved them from side to side to watch the items move.

We headed outside to play in the housekeeping area, push around the green bucket carts, ride bikes down the hill, play with balls, go down the slide, and explore the dragons/dinosaurs in the sandbox.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh pear.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, broccoli and strawberries.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds and Wheat Thins crackers.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-07

Good Afternoon!

A welcome activity was made available at the circle table this morning that revolved around one of our favorite building materials: magnatiles! We put four trays out for friends and they were able to add one special feature: bells! The bells are magnetic so when children built their creature, they added bells to the outside and inside of the structure! We loved the festive touch and when we add new materials to an activity that we have everyday, excitement grows and children tend to explore the activity for a longer period of time.

Enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn chex and fresh banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh watermelon/strawberries, and fresh green beans/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/green beans.

Have a great evening!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-07

Happy Wednesday!

We began our morning engaged in looking at books, using our imaginative skills with the beanie animals and dancing to the Listen and Move song by Greg and Steve.

We then went into the kitchen to engage with loose parts.  We had square and triangle Magna-Tiles and our wooden occupational people.  We looked through our Magna-Tiles and worked on building with them and explored and talked about the different clothes and occupations our people were.

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We then headed outside and went down the slide and engaged in the rock area with the construction trucks.  Cece even was outside with us for a bit and Eleanor showed her a leaf she was exploring.

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh cherry tomatoes, watermelon and whole grain wheat tortillas.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans with white corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprout:  Fresh green beans.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2024-11-06

Good Afternoon!

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This morning emergent curriculum was at its best as three dimensional child lead projects sprang up all over the art center!  Teachers helped with problem solving and provided materials, but everything created this morning was completely spontaneous and child initiated!  We love watching these kinds of brainstorming and building sessions evolve.  Several friends chose to help each other with projects.  Older kids where happy to lend a hand to younger friends who needed help cutting something or getting a piece of tape.  Older friends also jumped in to give advice on how to put things together three dimensionally.  There were houses, a city building, a play room and an airplane created by our Wee Friends!  Some friends spent over an hour on their project!  What an attention span for this age!

PREK2: Today we read the book “We All Sing the Same Song”.  After the story we talked about ways we are all the same and thought of our own ideas about what all people have in common.  We made a list of all our ideas.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh watermelon, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Corn tortilla chips with hummus.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-06

Good afternoon!

This morning, Eleanor and Charlotte shared smiles while using their imaginative skills to pretend to cook in the play kitchen. A friend explored the bucket people at the table and Cece engaged with the toys that dangle from her play mat.

We made our way to the kitchen to paint with brushes on the art easel. Our friends painted with red, green, blue and white on a long sheet of paper. They watched as the colors mixed on their canvas to make new colors or to make their color lighter with the white paint.

We then headed outside to take advantage of the nice weather this morning. Our friends took turns going down the slide, riding the teeter-totter and walking on the balance beam course.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Shredded Colby-Jack and Marinara sauce pizzas on whole wheat English muffins, fresh red grapes and peas.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Yellow bell pepper.

Have a beautiful evening!

Link to pictures: 2024-11-05

Happy Tuesday!

It was voting day! Our kiddos were so excited to exercise their vote and once they realized that they could possibly help choose what we would have for lunch, they became very excited! We put two heavy weights up against each other: English muffin pizzas and ham/cream cheese rollups.

We had one child vote at a time and explained the voting process. Once they cast their vote, they picked what sticker they wanted.

Once all of the votes were cast, our two oldest kids helped me count and tally up the votes. By a vote of 10-6, English muffin pizza was the winner. And post lunch, our bellies were VERY happy.

In PREK1 group, we had one more opportunity to vote and make our voice heard. Two books about the President were on the ballot: ‘I Want To Be President’ and ‘Arthur Meets The President’. We have six group members and at the end of the vote, it was tied! So Cassie broke the tie and chose ‘Arthur Meets the President’.

Please enjoy some more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Kix and fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Homemade english muffin pizzas, fresh strawberries/grapes, and fresh peppers/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.

Have a great night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-05

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged putting pegs into our pegboards.  We were given 2 colors and Miss Bekah showed us how to make a pattern with our colors.  We then worked at making a pattern with them and stacking them into tall towers.

Since it was too wet from the rain to go outside,  we crawled through a tunnel and climbed up the tiny turf stairs and slide.

We then engaged in building our mix or match magnetic animals.  Some of the friends told the teachers what kind of animal they were making and the sound of the animal.

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

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with red beans, fresh mini cucumbers/orange bell pepper slices and fresh cantaloupe slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Mini cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-04

Happy Monday!

We kicked off our week in PREK1 group by completing a sign in focused on counting items in a set. One child noted that the first group had eight stars because “four plus four equals eight.”. Others used their index fingers to count the stars in each group, displaying their one to one correspondence skills.

K.NS.6: Recognize set of 1 to 10 objects in patterned arrangements and tell how many without counting.

Tomorrow is voting day at Wee Friends. It’s a very important day where we’ll learn about the voting process. We’ll be voting on something very near and dear to our hearts: food (specifically lunch!).

A few of our older friends worked together to decorate our voting booth. They used the colors black, red, and blue and wrote things like “vote” and “USA” all over the booth. We can’t wait to see the results tomorrow!

This morning we offered a letter matching activity that could be explored in several ways depending on developmental level.  Younger friends matched letters they found in the basket with the alphabet card on their tray.  Older kids were able to pick out word cards and spell the words they saw on the cards.  Some chose to find their first name letter or spell their entire names.  Some chose to work alone and others chose to work with a partner.  Everyone was able to use the materials to match their own developmental level.

In the art center several friends continued with building projects.  Arthur and Ryan worked together to build a “table”. 

PREK2: During group we read the story “I Like Myself”.  After the story we each thought of something we were good at.  Not surprisingly, Arthur said he was good at “building a table”.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh apples.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded pork, fresh cantaloupe/pineapple, and fresh green pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with a birthday treat: homemade blueberry muffins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh green peppers.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2024-11-04

Happy Pajama Day!

We engaged with a playdough sensory experience.  We used our tools to cut and manipulate the dough.  Eleanor used her craft stick to pick up her playdough creation off of her tray.

We then headed out to build with Magna-Tiles.  We stacked them and connected them in a line on the floor.

We headed outside to go down the slide, explore the feel of the jewels in housekeeping, drive the plastic construction trucks, bend over the balance beam to play with the rocks and scoop and poured the sand.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Turkey lunch meat, whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh cantaloupe and mini cucumber slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and Colby-jack block cheese slices.

Wee Sprouts:  Green bell peppers.

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-01

Happy Friday!

We celebrated Amelia’s birthday today as she turned FOUR! We hope you had the best birthday!

We had a special treat today as a friends family celebrated the holiday of Diwali and brought a story in to share with the class about the holiday.  Everyone enjoyed listening to the story “Binny’s Diwali” and learning about the Indian festival of lights!

Our day was very much emergent curriculum as friends worked on self directed projects in the art center and building areas.  Teachers assisted with problem solving conversations.  Teachers also asked questions and provided materials to help ideas take shape!  This type of emergent curriculum teaching is deeply meaningful and follows our Wee Friends philosophy on fostering conditions for child lead learning. 

We had a wonderful Halloween Parade yesterday! Please enjoy some photos of all the great costumes the kids wore for the occasion!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh apples.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh cantaloupe/grapes/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Cheddar block cheese and pretzels.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-11-1

Link to Halloween pictures: 2024-11-1 Halloween