Happy Friday!

This morning, we pulled down the BounceBlocks and each friend did a different thing with them! Some carried them around or filled them with toys, and some friends stood, sat or even laid down on top of the them.

Then, we enjoyed plastic fall colored sensory gems in the light table! Many friends collected as many as they could hold in their hands, and they even tried filling up Miss Audrey’s hands too!

While outside, we spent lots of time in the sandbox! We even had some preschool friends come and join us! We had a large cake pan that we filled up, patted down and then flipped over!

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

Lunch: Whole grain wheat bread with hummus, fresh sweet mini peppers, and fresh cantaloupe.

Afternoon Snack:  Mozzarella cheese stick and pretzels.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh Cherry Tomatoes

Have a wonderful evening and a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2025-10-03

Happy Friday!

Please enjoy some pictures from our day!

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

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese quesadillas on whole wheat flatbread, fresh pineapple/cantaloupe/pears/banana, and fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper/cucumber/green beans.

PM snack– Pretzels, block cheese, and banana.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green pepper.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-03

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged with rhythm sticks and marching around the front circle to the song, Ants Go Marching.

We then headed into the kitchen to use dot markers.  We all used a variety of colors to create our drawings.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios cereal and bananas.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh orange and fresh green beans.

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

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-02

Good Afternoon!

We had an array of activities offered throughout the morning that aimed to meet the needs of all of our kiddos!

Several friends explored the art area where a glue interest popped up! Children grabbed glue bottles and a tray to practice gluing materials to their paper. One friend took his foam shapes and placed them in the shape of a rectangle and glued them down.

A loose parts activity was offered in the tuff tray where we watched as children used the materials in different ways. One friend made several small towers and kindly asked the friend next to him, “What are you making?”. Another friend used the “kids” and once she ran out, used other materials to complete her circle.

It was the perfect October morning so we headed outside. We have several pairs of siblings who are always excited to see one another!

We had our first farm trip this morning.  What a diverse and wonderful farm experience!  First, we went into Farmer Charlotte’s green house where we got to pick and eat tomatoes, beans and carrots.  It took all of us to get a large carrot out of the ground.  We washed it and then sliced it up in the outdoor kitchen to have a taste.   The turkeys were interested too, so the kids fed them some bean pods. 

Next, we visited animals in the barn.  We got to pet a sheep and feed a horse some hay.

Lastly, we explored the woods where we tried out the rope swing and built a little camp out of logs, sticks and other natural materials we found.  Everyone had a great time and can’t wait for next week!

Breakfast– Puffins cereal with fresh pears.

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

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-02

Happy October!

This morning, we pulled out the rainbows and boats! Some children rocked themselves back and forth while others sat in the colorful boats and listened to “Row Row Row Your Boat.” Our babies also enjoyed the morning, watching all the activities and being helped by their friends.

Later, we brought out our Mix and Match Magnetic Animals! Friends showed the various animal parts they found to Miss Audrey, and made all sorts of different animal combinations.

When we went outside, many of our friends spent time in the sand box today, filling up trucks or making holes in the sand. Other friends went down the slide.

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat bread, fresh nectarine slices and sugar snap peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and Colby-jack shredded cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas.

Wee Sprout:  Mini sweet peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-10-01

Good Afternoon!

We used the book ‘Tacky In Trouble’ today for our PREK1 sign in. Children were able to identify the other main character besides Tacky: the elephant!

Later on in group, we read the story while we paid close attention to the details of the story. When we were done reading it, we all worked together to add to our chart and boy, did our group recall the story in great detail! One friend added a specific event just to be reminded by another peer that there was an important event that happened right before! We filled in our chart and were happy to see that September is over! We flipped our calendar to the month of October!

We are so proud of all the progress our journal kids are making.  Our older kids are doing a great job with letter sounds and kid spelling.  Our younger kids are getting the hang of how to talk about their drawings and creating more deliberate journal entries.

In the art center we used the materials that kids were interested in yesterday.  Today we used the materials to experiment with and make art.  Kids expressed that they were interested in openly exploring the paint squeeze bottles and the squeegee, so we created art with them all morning.  This activity proved to be great for keeping attention.  Some friends stayed for 20-30 minutes to paint.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh watermelon/banana, and fresh green beans/cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.

Have a great night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2025-10-01

Good Afternoon!

This morning, we spent time in housekeeping! Some friends played with our shape stackers, while others played in the kitchen or around the room “applying bugspray.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with playdough and leaves.  Miss Audrey went outside and collected colorful leaves of us to stick in to our playdough.  A friend shared they were making “a butterfly”  with their dough.

We then headed outside to ride on the teeter totters, ride the bikes down the hill, scoop in the sandbox and explore a rock and carry it to another area of rocks.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Corn Chex cereal and bananas.

Lunch:  Peanut butter on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh mini sweet peppers,  Colby-jack block cheese and bananas.

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

Wee Sprout:  Sugar Snap Peas.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-09-30

Good afternoon!

Hannah asked, “What are we going to be signing in about today? I think it should be about a book..”.

She read my mind! We used ‘Froggy’s Lemonade Stand’ to help us identify the setting. Children chose from three different settings and wrote their name under the correct setting of the book.

Later on in PREK1 group, we read the book and made sure to pay attention to the characters, setting, and various specific events that occurred in the story. We’ve been using the words beginning, middle and end when talking about events in a story.

One friend added that a character in the story was the lemonade stand. This allowed us to have a  meaningful conversation about characters and the things we look for in characters. We talked about how the lemonade stand was an important aspect of the story but it wasn’t a character because it didn’t talk or speak in the story.

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

Today, we used a painting activity to practice retaining information and then following a loose set of directions in order.  The project was intended to build focused attention, memory and verbalization. 

I explained the entire process at the beginning of the project.  The kids would see how many steps they could remember. I explained that first, they would make small dots all over their paper using the squeeze bottles. Next, they would use the squeegee to pull the paint across the paper, then they would choose some leaves and paint them, using the tray of red paint and brushes. Lastly, they would print the leaves on the painting.  I checked in at each step to see what each child could remember asking, “What is next?”.  Of course, younger kids needed some help remembering what to do, but often could remember a couple of steps.  There were some of our older friends that could remember every step, and verbalize all of the things they would be doing. 

Though we were using paint to draw interest in practicing following a step by step process, this wasn’t really an “art” project.  I feel it’s important to specify that  our “art” projects are about open free expression and experimentation with very little instruction if any. 

PREK2:  Today in group we read the story “The Creature of Habit”.  We are learning about parts of a story like characters and settings.  At the end of group, we picked which was our favorite Character, the very big or very small creature.  We added our name to the board under the character we picked.

Please enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Kix with banana.

Lunch– Peanut butter with whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges/watermelon/apple, and fresh pepper/green bean/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with butter and cinnamon.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans.

Have a wonderful night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-09-30

Happy Monday!

This morning we engaged in the housekeeping area.  We worked on our self-help skills, working the put on dress-up shoes and cared for the needs of our baby doll.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with loose parts-dominoes and pom-poms.

We then headed outside to engage in our favorite activities.

Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with cinnamon and butter and fresh apple

Lunch: Whole grain penne pasta with red beans, fresh orange and cucumbers.

Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh mini sweet peppers

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to Pictures:  2025-09-29

Good Afternoon!

We kicked off the week by using one of our favorite books called ‘Save It’ to help us sign in. Using the cover to assist us, children signed in under who they thought the main character would be.

Later on in PREK1 group, we read ‘Save It’. We talked about three important things that you need to create a book or story: characters, setting, and events. Each day this week, we’ll read a different book for group and add these three things to our chart after we read the book. Children to quick to start conversing about the characters and the order of events that took place in the book. One friend even added, “There can be more than one setting in a book!”.

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

Today we practiced sorting and counting at our welcome activity.  Younger kids sorted their buttons by color and then tried counting a few of their sorted buttons.  Older friends sorted and then searched for the number they got in the number cards.  Some kids placed a number card next to each of their groups of sorted buttons to represent how many they had in the group.

In the art center, several kids became interested in one of our drawing books.  The books showed a variety of ways the kids could used their hands to make drawings.  Many of the kids worked were very motivated to reproduce every detail of the pictures displayed in the book.  This interest develops skills in the area of fine motor and attention to detail.  At the easel, one friend was interested in using the paint to create patterns.  It’s fun to see math skills merged into artwork!

Please enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Toasted whole wheat english muffins with butter and fresh pineapple/apples.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh nectarines/banana/apple, and fresh cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola. 

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-09-29