Good Afternoon.

The Dramatic Play center was in full swing today! Caroline and Rowan are feeding and then burping their babies. We all love to put the babies in their sleep sacks as well when they are going to take a nap. It’s so much fun to ne a mommy!

We then enjoyed some climbing with the soft star structures. This is a great way to get our bodies in motion and have some gross motor fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole grain tortillas with hummus, red pepper and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese.

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon and Happy New Year. We hope you all enjoyed your Holiday season.

Everyone was very excited to be back at school to see their friends and teachers.

We got right back into the swing of things like we had not even been gone for two weeks. Reading, big blocks, habi-trail, dramatic play… you name it, we were engaged in it.  

Breakfast: Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and banana.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with cheese and marinara sauce, corn and clementine’s

Snack: whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

Have a great night!

Marty

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Welcome back!

This week in K/PREK1, we’re diving into community helpers and how they are of importance to us. Today, we filled in three community helper squares and talked about what they do as well as any tools they may use to do their job.

Penny had shared, “I want to fight fires!”. This lead into a conversation about how each community helper has to get trained in their specific job and the skills it requires so that they stay safe and keep other people safe.

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

In PREK2, they read a few clues and had to come up with a specific community helper!

Children easily got back into their routine here at Wee Friends, anxious to see their friends and explore a few new items that they identified in the classroom.

The welcome activity allowed children to create faces using a variety of materials! One friend even found a way to display his glasses using the materials that were available.

Friends came in and immediately realized that there were new blocks in habitrail.

Miss Tami got us ‘Notch Blocks’, wooden blocks that hook together. Our imaginations were flowing as different groups of kids played with them throughout the entire morning. They are more stable as opposed to our other wooden blocks since they hook together, giving children a stable structure and endless opportunities!

We bundled up and went outside to feel the warm sun on our faces. Fresh air was just what we needed to end our morning!

Breakfast– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, string cheese, fresh apples, and fresh celery/cucumbers.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh celery/cucumbers.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/6

Happy Friday!

We ended our week with our coveted last day, pajama day tradition!

All of us at Wee Friends hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday break!

See you in 2020!

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

Lunch– Ham, whole wheat flatbread/tortilla, fresh apples/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper.

PM snack– String cheese and a treat from one of our friends: whole wheat Chex!

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/20

Good Afternoon.

We want to thank all of you for the generous Christmas gifts that you so graciously gave to us this Holiday season. You are all truly appreciated. Thank you!!

Today was a very low key day for the Wee Wee’s! With only having two friends we were able to get quite alot of one on one time!! We even found that we have matching jammies for our two little Wee’s. How fun!!!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with Ham lunchmeat, corn and oranges.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and mozzarella string cheese.

Have a fantastic two weeks off and we will see you all on January 6th, 2020!

Marty

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Good Afternoon.

Caroline and Ellie worked hard most of their morning on creating magna-tile structures. While the girls were building, teachers heard conversations of how big their tiles were getting and how tall they were. We also heard conversations about the colors of the tiles. 

Magna-tiles are a great multi function learning activity that all the kids just love. Math, science, color and shape recognition along with hand-eye coordination are all among the learning portion of the tiles. Children truly do learn through their play!  

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix (Rowan Choice) and clementine’s

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, corn and apples.

Snack: Whole wheat Triscuit crackers and pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Wheat crackers and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a great evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/19

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat/grain flatbread eggs and cheese roll-ups, peas and bananas /clementine’s.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with peanut butter.

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas.

Have a great evening.

Marty

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Hello!

**Friday will be a pajama day!

Here are a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh raspberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat flatbread, fresh raspberries/banana, and fresh pepper/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper.

Have a fantastic evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/18

Good Afternoon!

In K/PREK1, we always journal after our group session. Not only are our drawings becoming more detailed but children’s development of letters and letter sounds is growing quickly! Children are connecting letters to the sounds they make as well as realizing their words and writing are powerful! Connecting words to drawings is quite wonderful and intrinsically motivates children. After they finish their description,, we read it back and the effort they put into their words is very gratifying!

As Franklin was writing his description, he noticed a pattern in his writing: N-I-N (in NINGA OR NINJA) and A-T-A (ATAK OR ATTACK) “are patterns, Miss Mindy!”. Not only is Franklin’s confidence in his kid spelling growing but today, he noticed patterns and properties of his writing that he hasn’t identified until now!

Numbers have been a very hot topic as of late where children inquire about different numbers as well as addition problems. Grady and Penny dove into addition problems that they themselves came up with. They wrote the problems out and then worked together to find the answer. This wasn’t teacher driven: this was completely driven by these two kindergarteners and by working together, they completed several problems. Who knew working with numbers could be so much fun?

A friend had gotten out the rubber bands + boards and while children worked on placing rubber bands sporadically on the boards (as this is a challenging fine motor activity!), children took this opportunity to try and make letters! One friend created the letters that made up the word ‘EVIE’ while another friend created the first letter of his brothers name!

Our new puzzles continue to challenge us! The 60 piece puzzles take us just a bit longer than the 48 piece puzzles and require more patience and problem solving. These are unique puzzles because on the outside of the puzzle are different items (animals, etc.) that you find once the puzzle is complete!

A few parents have asked: the new puzzles, which are ‘Mudpuppy’, can be found on Amazon!

Breakfast– Whole grain Cheerios and fresh oranges/pineapple.

Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread/tortilla, block cheese, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/17