Happy Wednesday! Enjoy the pictures from our day.
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh watermelon.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded Colby-Jack cheese, fresh mini sweet peppers and watermelon and whole grain wheat tortillas.
Afternoon Snack: Refried beans and white corn tortilla chips.
Wee Sprout: Mini sweet peppers.
Have a wonderful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-17
Good Afternoon!
We continued talking about shapes for our PREK1 sign in today! Each group member came to the board where we walked through a series of steps.
First, children searched the board for their name. They identified the corresponding shape and then counted the sides of their shape. On a plate was a group of different numbers. They searched and found the correct number and taped their number inside of their shape. Eliza was surprised to learn that there were zero sides on a circle.
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
Later on in group, we read a book titled, ‘The Way I Feel’ from our MACK collection. Throughout the story, the author and illustrator demonstrated how they work together to share the words AND the corresponding illustration. Each page had a specific feeling with a facial expression on a character. On a few pages, we looked at the characters facial expression to see if we could guess the emotion on that page!
We talked about different situations in our life that makes us feel a certain way. Our friends with siblings shared that sometimes they feel jealous when their other sibling is getting attention from their parents and they’re not—so relatable and true!
MACK WEEK 3: Children will learn to recognize and name emotions in themselves and others.
K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.
There has been interest in collecting and playing with leaves outside lately, so we thought it would be a great time to do this leaf printing art project. Kids chose their favorite leaf shapes. They painted their leaves and then pressed them onto their paper to make prints of the leaves. Some kids experimented with painting blocks of different shades of green on the same leaf or painting compound leaves in different shades. This made for some interesting prints!
Another interest that popped up for the morning was solving puzzles. Some kids have been able to put together our most difficult pattern play puzzle. Several kids got interested in trying more difficult puzzles and challenging themselves. We saw some great team work as kids helped each other with struggles or gave each other pointers.
Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, fresh watermelon/pears, and fresh green beans/cucumber/cherry tomatoes.
PM snack– Air popped corn with raisins.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans/pepper.
Have a lovely night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-17
Good Afternoon!
We engaged in dancing with the silk scarves to Shake Your Sillies Out.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a sensory activity with playdough and the tools.
We then headed out to build and work on our balance skills on the BounceBlocks.
We then headed outside to watch an ant crawl on the cement, scoop in the sandbox, go down the slide and walk with a baby doll.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh pineapple slices.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole grain wheat bread, fresh watermelon and mini sweet pepper slices.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh strawberries.
Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.
Have a terrific evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-16
Good Afternoon!
**Wee Friends Families—we have a large group of younger children who are interested in wooden puzzles (6-12 piece puzzles). If you have any that your children have outgrown, we would love any donations that you may have! Thank you!
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Our PREK1 group came to the sign in board where they worked at locating a four sided shape. Once they found a four sided shape, they circled the shape, identified the shape, and wrote their name! There were a few shapes mixed in that had either zero or three sides, sparking up a conversation about how shapes have a specific number of sides.
Later on in group, we read ‘The Boy With Big, Big Feelings’. We talked about our own feelings as well as identifying feelings in others. We completed an exercise where we closed our eyes, did some deep breathing, and thought about our day (who we played with, what activities we did, etc). After we took a minute to rethink about our morning, everyone opened their eyes. I asked friends to keep their voices quiet but to raise their hand when this certain emotion applied to their morning. For example, I asked, “Raise your hand if you felt sad at any point this morning?” (a few friends raised their hand). Then, I asked, “Raise your hand if you felt angry at any point this morning?”—we continued on with a few other feelings but we talked about how we often feel many emotions in a given time so our friends can feel the same emotions too!
K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).
MACK WEEK 3: Children will learn to recognize and name emotions in themselves and others.
We have been playing with different ways to use shapes as well as putting them together to make new shapes. Today at our welcome activity, we offered three different shape trays for kids to explore openly. They made many discoveries through this exploration. Some friends found that they could use a large half circle from the circle tray to roll the round wooden pieces down. Others found they could balance the pieces to create tall towers, or as one friends made “pineapple ice cream cones”. Others found colored pieces on their trays and chose to sort them by color. It was great to see all the creative ways kids chose to use the shapes.
At the art center, writing work continued. Some kids wrote the names of their family members on cards they chose from the materials box. Others made books and practiced sounding out stories to write down. All these little projects allowed for deep child led learning experiences in the area of language and writing.
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Puffins cereal with fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat tortilla, fresh grapes/oranges, and fresh cucumber/peppers.
PM Snack: Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh snap peas/cucumbers.
Have a lovely day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to Pictures:2025-09-16
Good Afternoon!
Today we welcomed a new friend to our classroom. She is a sibling of a friend in the preschool class.
Enjoy some pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter and cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh plums.
Lunch: Whole grain elbow macaroni with shredded chicken, fresh sugar snap peas and fresh oranges.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and fresh pineapple.
Wee Sprout: Mini sweet peppers.
Have a great evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-15
Happy Monday!
We kicked off our week by talking about how smaller shapes can make larger shapes! Our PREK1 friends came up to the sign in board where they looked at a new shape that was formed by using two squares. Children immediately identified the new shape as a rectangle.
K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g. create a rectangle composed of two triangles).
This morning, kids worked on a welcome activity using shapes to create letters. Friends practiced using small shapes to make larger shapes, matching/identifying shapes and identifying letters. Many kids chose the first letter of their name to fill in with the pattern blocks.
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from out day!
PREK2: During group time we looked for our name on the board. When we found our name, we sorted the markers until we found the same color as our name. Next we circled our name with the same color marker.
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh strawberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a lovely night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-15
Good Afternoon!
We ended our week with PREK1 sign in, focusing on drawing 2-D shapes. Each group member came up to the board where they chose a dotted shape. They worked at connecting the dots, making fluid lines to create a shape! Earlier in the week, Hannah had shared, “The square is the newest shape that I can draw!”—she chose that shape today to display this new found skill.
K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.
We have been enjoying our class interest in writing, kid spelling and book making lately. There is a wide range of developmental growth and we love seeing that in all the different ages of kids that have this same interest. Some friends are in the stage of describing their pictures. This shows an understanding that words can represent images and thoughts. Others can create a multi page narrative with a beginning, middle, and end but need help with writing words and sounding letters. Others are beginning to sound out their own words all by themselves!
We explored an evolving activity at the round table this morning. We started with water, animals, and natural materials. Some kids were interested in making nature stew yesterday, so we began to add pots and spoons since kids wanted to continue down this path. Some kids were talking about adding spices, so we also added some small seeds from our natural outdoor spaces for kids to add to their soups. Once more, the project evolved as one friend wanted to pretend he was cleaning the water. We added some sieves to help and other kids became interested in separating the natural materials and the water using the sieves. We love following interests, keeping kids engaged. This helps with lengthening attention spans and ability for focused attention.
Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pears.
Lunch: Ham on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/plums/oranges/apples, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.
PM Snack: Gold fish crackers with cheddar cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.
Have a great weekend!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to Pictures: 2025-09-12
Happy Friday!
This morning we engaged in a ball rolling paint activity with smooth and textured balls. We used green, orange and yellow tempera paint. We shook our bins back and forth on the floor and watched the balls roll across our papers to make our colorful paintings.
We then headed outside to explore the flowers, draw with chalk, engage in water play and spend some time with our older sibling.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh plum slices.
Lunch: Honey ham lunch meat, whole grain wheat bread, fresh mini sweet pepper slices and bananas.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Goldfish crackers and Colby-Jack block cheese.
Wee Sprout: Sugar Snap Peas.
Have a great weekend!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-12
Good Afternoon!
PREK1 friends came to the board where we worked with rhyming words. Each child was given one word and they had to share a rhyming word. We wrote the word on the board and repeated the rhyming word pair.
K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.
This morning, the kids got to explore the gooey results of their mixing experiment from earlier this week. We kept it in the fridge to find out what the chia seeds would do as they set up. They created a gel which added a stretchy, sticky squishy element to the concoction. Everyone was surprised that they were playing with the same substance they had made, which was much more of a liquid before.
We added a loose parts activity to the round table this morning allowing kids to explore new and different ways they could use shapes. We also added color components which encouraged sorting, pattern making and color matching. They had lots of ideas. They found that squares could build a road, rectangles could make a bridge. One friend found that a combination of them could build a “comfy jail”. Kids are always thinking outside of every box!
Outside, our kids have been enjoying the log area, a naturalized space that allows kids to build and imagine with logs, sticks and natural materials. They wanted to pick leaves to make a stew in their “fort”. Since we can’t have them picking the landscaping bushes, I did a little pruning in the area to open up more play space, which gave us a bunch of leaves for the stew. The kids got to learn about the phrase “two birds one stone”
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Breakfast: Oatmeal squares with fresh bananas.
Lunch: Brown rice with chicken, fresh watermelon/mango, and fresh cucumbers/green beans.
PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and pumpkin/sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots/green beans.
Have a great night!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to Pictures:2025-09-11
Good Afternoon!
This morning we were engaged in the housekeeping area with the play food. We were busy cooking the foods and putting them on a plate to eat at the table.
A friend requested See The Bunnies Sleeping song and we all acted out the motions.
Rose held her bottle to feed herself and enjoyed sitting in her chair while interacting with her teachers.
Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex cereal and fresh mango.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh cucumber and pear slices.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat tortillas with peanut butter and fresapple slices.
Wee Sprout: Yellow bell peppers.
Have a terrific evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-09-11