Happy Monday!

On this rainy day we…

engaged in scooping/pouring and enjoying the sensory feel of the moon sand on our hands…

and used our gross motor skills on an obstacle course with a tunnel, colored squares for hopping, rainbow mats for crawling under and jumping off a plastic block…

and our youngest friends also engaged in some gross motor play on the habitrail as well.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat toast with butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat pasta with shredded chicken, fresh pears/oranges and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh cantaloupe.

Wee Sprouts:  Fresh carrots.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtTCDmdhjIulke0Z94DrKSGZKkAMGA?e=8Gg5Pu

Happy Monday!

In K group, we started reading, ‘Charlotte’s Web’. Chapter books like Charlotte’s Web offer detailed story telling without the pictures. We’ll read a couple chapters a day and recall the important events that happened that day. An activity like this helps children work on comprehension and identifying important events. The active characters and setting often change so these things authentically come up in conversation.

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We are here! The last week of FAB’s for the school year. We are ending our FAB cycle by diving into maps: creating them and reading them. The kindergarteners drew a map of their bedroom, complete with doors, windows, a bed, and any other item they have in their room. As they drew the map, they talked about the placement of each item and where it is within their bedroom.

Social Studies: Create maps 2 dimensionally and 3 dimensionally.

Children were offered an art opportunity this morning that involved paint and canvas’s!

Friends used a variety of colors to paint their canvas. Some children chose to paint the entire canvas while others chose to paint a portion of it.

The rest of our day consisted of children becoming invested in various activities and spaces in our environment. The weather prohibited us from going outside but that didn’t stop the kids from moving their bodies or asking for an activity that peaked their interest. 

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef and butter, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/7

Good Afternoon!

Today we engaged in listening to several books that a teacher read to all of us.  We chose many of our favorites.

We got some beautiful new flowers for the planters around our backyard, which our friends were eager to admire. Each friend took a moment to stop and smell the flowers, and one friend shared they smelled “delicious”! On the staged platform, we also took turns saying “one, two, three” and then a goofy food choice instead of “go”. Miss Mindy started the game with things like yogurt, chocolate, and cookies, and our friends continued with their own contributions like “one, two, three, banana phone!” Our morning outside was full or giggles and smiles!

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

Lunch:  Turkey on whole grain wheat bread, fresh banana and sweet potatoes.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers with Colby-Jack block cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah & Annastecia

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It’s Friday!

We are dancing into the weekend!

Looking for some weekend reading? This Teacher Tom blogpost title drew my attention. One of my favorite lines in the post was, “We live in a different sort of world today, but children still need places to play that adults don’t really care about. “The curriculum that matters is what’s inside the child,” Jan says, and these places, these scruffy, uncared for places are where it flourishes best. Childhood comes alive in those places adults don’t really care about.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/childhood-comes-alive-in-those-places.html

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat bread, fresh clementine’s/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Goldfish and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/4

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged in painting at the easel.  Friends used a variety of colors to create their beautiful masterpieces.  A friend shared they were “painting a rainbow” on their paper.  Look at all of our beautiful paintings.

We then headed outside to play and engage in our favorite activities.

Our youngest friends engaged in play together with the play food from the play kitchen area and the dress up scarves.

Breakfast:  Corn Chex cereal and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with red beans, corn and fresh oranges/pears.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat Triscuits and pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts:  Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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Happy Thursday!

Yesterday in K group, we started reading, ‘Freckle Juice’ which is a short chapter book to prepare us for a longer chapter book we’re going to start reading next week! Stay tuned for that!

Freckle Juice is a short chapter book written by Judy Blume. We are a little more than halfway through and just finished up reading about a big event: the dreaded freckle juice!

Andrew Marcus is the main character and he is jealous of his peers’ freckles so he buys a recipe for freckle juice.

Dinner table conversation starter: ask your kindergartener about the book and what’s happened so far. We just found out the ingredients that make up this freckle juice: see how many your K kid can recall .

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Our lemonade stand is continuing to run smoothly! Friends are doing a great job at taking turns to make sure that everyone who wants a turn gets one. Children are using the pretend lemons to make lemonade while others are sorting the coins or taking orders! We don’t have JUST lemonade! We have a variety of choices—we’re becoming quite the well oiled machine!

It was a sun hat, feet in the sand, bugs in our jar kind of morning! Children explored and found a variety of bugs while other buried themselves in the sandbox waist down!

Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with red beans, fresh pears, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Peanuts and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/3

Good Afternoon!

This morning we explored using clear plastic tubing of different lengths and sturdy cardboard tubes to create and build using the loose parts.  Friends were very excited to see that the clear plastic tubes can go all the way through the cardboard tube. Everyone was very creative with the choices of loose parts they decided to use.  Nesta worked on creating patterns with Miss Bekah and made ABAB patterns using the color beads on her clear tubing.

During outside time, the trucks down by the little house were very popular with many friends.  They put Little People in them and drove them around the cement paths. They also like to place pieces of mulch in them to make them hauling vehicles.

A friend also found a roly poly while looking for bugs and was following it as it moved with her finger.

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pears.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat tortilla, fresh oranges and green beans.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat flatbread with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a lovely evening!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Overnight oats and fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/broccoli.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/2

  Wee Friends will be closed beginning Thursday, July 1st- Friday, July 9th for summer vacation.  We will re-open Monday, July 12th.  Thank you.

Good Afternoon! I hope everyone had a great weekend and Memorial Day.

This morning we engaged with markers to draw in our journal binders.  Friends enjoyed flipping through their binders to find a blank page for them to create their colorful drawings.

During outside time, friends were busy exploring and looking to see what they could find in the sandbox and cracks in the cement.  They have very good eyes for finding the tiniest rock or bug.

Our youngest friends engaged in making their own music on the piano and xylophone this morning.  Then while the older friends were napping, they were engaged in looking at many books.

Breakfast:  Kix cereal with fresh apples.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh banana and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and a slice of cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtTCDmdhjIulkekQPVu5EFEB1vwwHw?e=UrfI55

Happy Tuesday!

**Wee Friends will be closed starting Thursday, July 1st. We’ll reopen Monday, July 12th. Thanks!

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To kick off our short week, we focused in on the individual spaces that we have in our indoor environment! Children wrote as many as they could recall.

Later on in K group, we read, ‘Arthur’s Reading Race’. During the story, Arthur and his sister D.W. headed out into the community to look for words. After we finished reading, we created a web and identified the places that they visited in the community.

Once we were done listing all of the places they had visited, we added a few of our own that we visit within our community!

Social Studies: K.3.3 Locate and describe places in the school and community.

In PREK2 group, children wrote their name next to a given place in the community. Afterwards, talked about each place within the community.

A few friends have shown interest lemonade stands so today, the Wee Friends lemonade stand opened!

First, a few of our older friends sorted coins into four groups: penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

Once the coins were sorted, we went over some basic rules before diving into our lemonade stand!

Children used the lemons, pitchers, money, and signs to sell lemonade to their friends!

Breakfast– Quaker Oatmeal Squares with fresh apples.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese and refried beans on whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges, and fresh cucumber/broccoli.

PM snack– Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and block cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 6/1