Happy Friday!

This morning we painted with real leaves from outside with green, red and yellow tempera paint.  The leaves were of different shapes, colors and sizes.  We created colorful fall paintings with our leaves and fingers

Then, we spent some time on the habitrail. Miss Audrey got out the liquid square mats around the habitrail, and the friends jumped from mat to mat. One friend even moved them into a straight line to make a path for laps around the habitrail!

Afterwards we went outside to enjoy the lovely weather that we’ve been having

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

Lunch:  Chicken Avocado salad, whole grain wheat bread, fresh red grapes and sugar snap peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Mild cheddar block cheese and bananas.

Wee Sprout: Fresh cucumbers

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-10

Good Afternoon!

It was one of those days where a child lead idea takes over the whole morning!  A friend at the art table was talking about Halloween and wanting to make a mask.  He was struggling a bit as he bored a hole in his paper for one eye.  We talked and figured out some materials we could use to make a mask that he could wear.  After that, everyone wanted to make a mask!  The creativity was amazing and the kids all enjoyed wearing them and engaging in imaginative play with the masks throughout the classroom!  We had a wide variety of themes including a pumpkin, a rainbow with horns, a witch king, a dinosaur and a unicorn. 

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

Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado salad on whole wheat bread, fresh pears/pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper/broccoli.

PM snack– Goldfish and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/broccoli.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-10

Good afternoon!

We did lots of reading together this morning! We started on the reading steps, some friends looking at books by themselves, then we moved to the habitrail and sat in boats while Miss Bekah read many teacher books.

Then, we brought out puzzles in the kitchen to play with! We explored the different shapes of each puzzle, and tried to find where the pieces went.

Afterwards, we went outside

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex with milk and fresh pears

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with pork, fresh mini peppers and fresh cantaloupe

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Triscuit crackers with peanut butter and sunflower seeds

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumber

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-09

Good Afternoon!

We took our weekly trip to the farm today! It was jam packed with chores that we were able to help Farmer Charlotte with. Before starting our chores, we picked fresh raspberries from the raspberry patch—yum!

Our first chore was digging for and finding worms in the compost pile. We fed the worms to salamanders before we left to come back to Wee Friends. All four of our friends were extremely helpful in their own ways—a few did the digging of the worms while others had a great eye for finding the worms in the dirt.

Once we were done finding enough worms, we helped drag and carry cornstalks down to the barn to feed to the horses. We took the cornstalks and fed them through the gate so that the horses could eat them.

Finally, the mice needed to be fed! We all took turns feeding the mice and had the opportunity to hold and pet the mice. A few of the mice are expecting! We’re excited to see if they’ll have their babies by next week!

We had such a fun and productive trip. Farmer Charlotte was thankful for all of our help because as we saw, it takes so many hands and so much help to run a farm!

Interesting fact: we were able to observe the skeletal remains of a possum in the garden!

We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh apples.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and a seed mixture.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-09

Happy Wednesday!

This morning we engaged with the dancing scarves, shaking them and dancing to the song, Shake Your Sillies Out.  If we could we identified the color of scarf we were using to Miss Bekah or she said it for us.

We then headed over the engage with the musical instruments.  We shook the shaker instruments, used our fingers to play the pianos and a mallet to tap the bars of our xylophones.  We enjoyed making lots of beautiful sounds.

We then headed outside. 

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh grapes

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mild cheddar cheese, fresh cucumber and pineapple slices and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and shredded mild cheese and whole grain wheat tortilla chips

Wee Sprouts:  Sugar Snap Peas.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-08

Good Afternoon!

We talked about days of the week for our PREK1 sign in activity. Children came up to the board where we filled in the day of the week that will be “tomorrow”. We talked about the terms yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Later on in group, we read ‘The Apple Pie Tree’. The author shared what happens to apple trees in each season. We also talked about how there are specific steps that we must follow before placing a pie into the oven!

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.

This morning we explored the pegboard with begs and rubber bands.  As kids worked, several became interested in the difference between a square and a rectangle.  With the pegs and boles it made it easy to see.  We counted the begs or holes along each side of our shape.  If they were all the same, it was a square.  If there were two different numbers on the parallel sides, it was a rectangle.  Other friends had a great time working together on an imaginative project.  Hannah and Milo enjoyed working together to make a “trampoline”.

At the art center three friends began a child lead collaborative art project all by themselves.  They were all making rainbow butterflies.  They talked about how to make them as they went so they could all make the same thing!

PREK2:  We read the book “Cows Can’t Fly”.  As we read, we talked about what things in the book were fictional and couldn’t really happen, and what things were non-fiction and could really happen.  We sorted it all out on the board at the end of the story.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh grapes/raspberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat flatbread, fresh banana/pineapple/apples, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

PM snack– Hummus with blue corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-08

Happy Tuesday!

This morning we engaged with our sound sensory tubes.  We were tipping them back and forth and watching the items in the tube move to the other end and hear the different sounds they made.  We also saw that the feathers moved slower and quieter than the other items. Meanwhile, both babies got some time on their playmat together!

Then, we went into the kitchen and engaged with the wooden shape loose parts and animals.  Several friends were stacking their shapes together to see how high they could stack them before it fell over.

The rainy weather kept us inside, but we still had lots of fun! We enjoyed the habitrail and had so much fun crawling in our large tunnel!

Breakfast:  Whole grain Kix cereal and fresh pears.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat tortillas with hummus, fresh cantaloupe and fresh cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and fresh raspberries

Wee Sprout: Fresh green bell pepper

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-07

Good Afternoon!

We introduced the word ‘sequence’ this morning during our PREK1 sign in. We talked about how a sequence is an order in which we do things. We looked at our morning and wrote our name under what came next in our sequence: washing our hands after coming inside or going straight to the lunch table?

This lead into our group time as well. We read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ while looking at our calendar we use everyday. We looked at how the days of the week are in sequential order and how the days of the week are essentially a pattern, as they repeat every seven days.

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

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.

This morning we found inventive ways to use magnets and loose parts.  We had a lot of innovative ideas about how to use the magnets and materials.  One friend was interested in moving things with magnets.  He tried to make magnetic chains of objects, then asked for a string to hang objects from.  Several kids got interested in this idea and enjoyed hanging something from string and moving it with the magnet.  These kinds of exploratory opportunities allow kids to tinker, experiment and observe.  Deep learning occurs as kids curiously interact with the world this way and follow up the questions they have about how things work.

Our sensory bin material was changed out today and children are always so anxious to see what the sensory bin will offer. Kinetic sand was placed in the bin along with trucks and various sized rocks. Children noticed that each truck made different tracks in the sand! Sensory materials are essential in an early childhood classroom as children learn through all of their senses, especially touch!

Breakfast– Kix cereal with fresh pears.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pears/cantaloupe/grapes, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot.

Have a great night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-07

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged with the shape house.  We explored all the different shapes inside and worked at finding the correct place the shapes fit in the roof, to go inside the house.

The babies played on their playmat together, watching the toys above them and working to move them with their hand or foot.

We then engaged in looking at books independently on the reading steps.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a sensory activity of corn/black beans in the tuff tray.  We added some construction trucks, tins, ice cube trays and spoons to use for filling and pouring the mixture into.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with cream cheese and fresh pears.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded pork, fresh apples and fresh mini sweet peppers

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Fresh green beans.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-06

Happy Monday!

We kicked off our week by diving into time words, specifically the word ‘morning’. Each PREK1 member came to sign in this morning where they signed under the activity that they do every morning before coming to school.

Later on in group, we read ‘The Child’s Calendar’ which focuses on each month of the year, the holidays that take place, and how the weather typically is like. Children were eager to share what month their birthday was in as well as other months that they knew. A few friends even shared their favorite “season”.

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.

This morning we explored a loose parts, open-ended building activity.  We came up with many creative ideas and enjoyed cooperative imaginative play with everyone’s creations.  Among our creations, we had a parking garage next to a pool, a parking lot surrounded by boulders and trees, and a fire station.  These kinds of activities encourage kids to think openly since no object has a specific expected function.  I loved watching how the kids shared and built upon one another’s ideas.  They practiced great conversational skills during a back and forth brain storm of possibilities.  Kids worked on negotiating and making a case for something they were interested in.  These skills are so valuable as kids will take them into long term positive life experiences.  

PREK2: This morning we read the story “What Moms Can’t Do”.  In the book we noticed that some of the story was set in the morning and some in the evening.  We noticed what things happen at different times of the day.  After the story we each got a turn to sort what things happen in the morning and what things happen in the evening.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon along with fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with black beans and shredded chicken, fresh oranges/apples, and fresh pepper/cherry tomatoes/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-06