Good Afternoon!

This morning we began our morning by building.  We built with the hollow blocks and Duplos to make stacks.

Many of us then engaged in the housekeeping area dressing up with dress up clothes and accessories or cooking with the play food.

We then headed over to make our own music with the instrument shakers, pianos and xylophones.  While we were playing, Miss Bekah sang Shake Your Sillies Out and we shook our shakers. She then changed the action word to tap instead of shake for those of us who were playing the xylophones or pianos.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with marinara sauce, fresh apple slices and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Orange mini sweet bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:2024-03-18

Happy Friday!

This morning we were busy with a variety of activities.  We engaged with the babies and bottles in the cube, built with our artwork cylinder blocks, crawled while making a silly face, watching a block slide down a wooden ramp and engaged with a teddy bear with a friend.

We then headed to the kitchen to paint with red, blue and yellow tempera paint with a paint brush.  Miss Bekah mentioned the book Mouse Paint that we love and how we were mixing the colors like the mouse does in the book.  We filled our papers full of colors.

While we were outside enjoying the sunshine, we got to see a big construction machine that was working to smooth out the bumps in the alley.  We also enjoyed going down the slides and riding the teeter totter with a friend and engaging with a spoon in the housekeeping area.

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

Lunch:  Ham/Turkey lunch meat, fresh cantaloupe, fresh mini sweet bell peppers and whole grain wheat bread.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2024-03-15

Happy Friday!

We celebrated Hannah’s 5th birthday today! She brought in a yummy birthday treat that all of her friends enjoyed—we hope you had the best birthday, Hannah!

We hope you enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Homemade English muffin pizzas with various toppings to choose from– (sauce, cheese, pepper, ham, and pineapple), fresh pineapple/cantaloupe, and fresh green beans/cucumber.

PM snack– Hannah’s birthday treat: fresh fruit cups and sliced cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh green beans/cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-03-15

Good Afternoon!

It was a stormy morning at Wee Friends and the talk of the breakfast table was all about thunder and lighting!  We looked at some books about storms at the round table finding several interesting pictures of lighting. We decided to experiment with a special painting technique that would result in creating lightning effects with paint.. To do this, we added small drops of food coloring to the top of water color paper. Next we misted the painting from the bottom up using a spray bottle while our paper was in an upright position. As we did this, the colors bloomed, across the paper very suddenly giving the effect of lightning. Everyone wanted to do this!  Many also stayed to watch all of the other paintings being created by classmates since the effect was so interesting to watch happen. A group stood around the drying table afterward discussing what they liked about all the paintings laid out, and pointing out their own paintings to friends. It was an exciting project!

Breakfast– Whole grain cheerios with fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh cantaloupe/pears, and fresh green beans/carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Trail mix mixture: raisins, peanuts, granola, and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh green beans/carrots/cucumber.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-03-14

Good afternoon!

Our friends danced to a variety of bean bag songs with their bean bags. We listened to “Beanbag Boogie” and followed along to where it told us to place our bean bags.

Happy Pi Day! In honor of Pi Day, Miss Bekah brought over some wooden apple pie sets for our friends. We worked on cutting the pie into four equal parts. We also explored the different parts of the pie such as the crust and the filling.

One of our favorite rainy day activities is sitting on the reading steps and listening to books. Miss Bekah read several books to our friends.

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex cereal with fresh mandarin oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, red bell pepper, and fresh bananas.

Afternoon Snack: Pepita seeds with sweet potato crackers.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-03-14

Good Afternoon!

Yesterday in PREK1 group, we played a sorting game with weather patterns. We used seven weather category boards including cloudy, rainy, stormy, sunny as well as a few others. William and Adrian saw it on the island this morning and immediately asked if they could play the game again. They used the science area and spread the boards out so they had enough space. They filled up the boards with the correct tiles two times! There were a few tiles that caused them to stop and think because it could easily go in two boards such as cloudy or foggy. They got so excited about sorting weather pictures!

K.RV.2.2: Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories (e.g. colors, shapes, opposites).

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapple/watermelon, and fresh green beans/carrots.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/carrot/green beans.

Have a wonderful night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-03-13

Happy Sunny Wednesday!

This morning we began cooking delicious food to eat in the housekeeping kitchen.

We also were interacting with another friend during our play.  We talked to each other, rocked in the rocking chair together, built with hollow wood blocks to sit on and looked out the bridge door, waiting for Miss Bekah to return.

We also were shown our art work displayed in clear cylinder containers for us to see during our play.  We can use them to build with, but today, the friends decided they were great drums to play.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful weather while engaging in our favorite activities.

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh cucumbers, watermelon and whole grain wheat flatbread.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and blue corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprouts:  Orange/Red sweeet mini bell peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2024-03-13

Good afternoon!

This morning, our friends played with baby dolls, rocked in the rocking chair, or built with blocks.

We then made our way to the kitchen to engage with a loose parts activity that included wooden people, circles and rings. They stacked rings on top of their wooden people or placed their people on top of the wooden circles. 

We went outside to enjoy the nice weather! Our friends rode bikes, played in the sandbox, and drew on the chalkboard with chalk.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh mandarin oranges.

Lunch: Peanut Butter on whole grain wheat tortilla, red bell peppers, fresh pear slices and 1/2 mozzarella cheese stick.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a beautiful evening and enjoy the weather!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2024-03-12

Good Afternoon!

We celebrated Katherine’s 4th birthday today! Thank you for the yummy birthday treat! We hope you had a fantastic birthday!

Children quickly gathered at the circle table where they explored loose parts. Dominos and colorful bears were placed on the table with a bowl on each tray. Activities such as this one where there’s a collection of loose parts made available and no “rules” offer children an opportunity to use their imagination.

One child decided to place the dominos in a large square and placed on teddy bear on each domino, authentically working on one to one correspondence.

Before we headed outside, Miss Tami clipped some fresh herbs from our aero-garden that we have set up in the kitchen. A collection of basil and dill wafted through our classroom. William sat down with the herbs at the circle table as children came up, requesting to smell them. It made our classroom smell so lovely! Later on in the day, green onions were offered as a topping to our pasta!

We were able to soak up some sunshine this morning even though it was a bit chilly. By the time we went inside for lunch, it was nice out! A few children asked if they could get the wooden blocks out of the shed. They worked together to create various ramps for their cars and trucks.

Breakfast– Whole wheat english muffins with butter and fresh clementines.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with red beans (offered green onions as garnish), fresh apples/strawberries, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Katherine’s birthday pancakes with fresh raspberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-03-11

Good Afternoon!

Reminder:  Wee Friends will be closed for Good Friday on March 29th.  Thank you.

This morning Dax and Eliza began by crawling under the habi-trail to lay on the tiny turf mat and slide.  Many friends then headed over to the housekeeping area to look through the color viewer pyramid blocks to look outside with the color they chose.  Eden climbed up on the reading step to look at a book.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with the wooden shape loose parts and animals.  We added some of our bigger animals to our play as well.  The friends were exploring the different pieces with their hands.  Ben found he could place 2 of his animal’s legs into his circle block.  Several friends decided to join in and see if their animal’s legs fit in their circle blocks as well.

We then headed outside to enjoy the sunshine and some fresh air.  The majority of us were engaged in the sandbox with our favorites: pushing the dump truck or sitting out it and digging with shovels to fill our containers.  Dax enjoyed building with the Outlast blocks and driving his small construction vehicle on them.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter spread and fresh pear slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded turkey, fresh cucumber slices and strawberries.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and apple slices.

Wee Sprouts:  Orange bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2024-03-11