Welcome back!

We hope everyone had a terrific break!

K/PREK1 group read, ‘The Snail and the Whale’ before looking at our new journal calendar for the upcoming year! We were so excited to look through it and find our own journal page! Children were thrilled to get back to our journal routine as most of us are identifying letters and several letter sounds.

PREK2 made a web during group that focused on classroom rules. A few rules that were stated were, “no hitting”, “no stealing toys”, “no running into the street”, and “no pushing”. Friends talked about these rules and why we have them here at Wee Friends!

Our Monday was full of children recapping their break to their friends and getting back into their routine! We were able to make it outside for a little bit this morning which allowed us to get some fresh air.

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

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded chicken, banana/fresh oranges, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh raspberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumbers.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/7

Happy Friday!

We hope you and your family have a safe and happy holiday and new year! See you in 2019!

Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh banana.

Lunch– Peanut butter and whole wheat bread, string cheese, fresh pineapple/oranges, and fresh broccoli/cucumber.

PM snack– Block cheese and pretzels.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/broccoli.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/21

Happy Friday!

“The Sensitive Period: It comes for a moment but its benefits last for a lifetime.” ~Maria Montessori

Our friends just love pajama day. Enjoy our Jammie pictures.  

We hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season filled with love, and family! Travel safely to all of you that will be spending your holidays away. We will see you all in 2019!

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon, and clementine’s.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with cream cheese turkey lunchmeat rollup, carrots, and banana.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers, and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Have a great weekend.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

**We want to send a HUGE thank you to Miss Melinda and her ‘Star Carolers’ for entertaining us yesterday with several holiday songs. It was such a treat and we all enjoyed it so much!

Our journal experiences were full of meaningful thoughts today. Maxwell journaled about his family around his Christmas tree with several presents. When he was done journaling, he wanted to write out the names of his family members. Our older friends are really grasping letter sounds, consonants especially! In both K/PREK1 and PREK2, children are encouraged to write their own journal descriptions either by themselves (kid spelling) or by focusing on letter identification with the help of teachers.

We read different stories throughout the morning, either sitting quietly by ourselves or while snuggled up next to a teacher. Reading stories is the number one most important step in the literacy journey!

“Free choice is one of the highest of all mental processes.”

-Maria Montessori

Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and fresh pears.

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

PM snack– Peanuts and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a fantastic evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/20

Good Afternoon All!

“Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.” ~Maria Montessori

Don’t forget tomorrow is pajama day! We can’t wait to see everyone in their comfy jammies to end our last day of school for the 2018 year.

We started our day by engaging our minds and hands in a couple different fine motor activities. Puzzles and coloring are just two of our favorite fine motor activities.

While working with the puzzles, we also can learn and begin to understand the colors and shapes of the pieces while getting them into their correct spaces as well as utilizing our  hand-eye coordination skills.

While working with the crayons we also learn our colors, utilize our hand-eye coordination skills and can even start to understand the correct way to hold a writing object.

The weather this week has really been cooperating with us and we all LOVE it! The mornings have been a tad chilly so we have went out in the afternoon, but today… we were able to go outside in the morning.   We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our outside time.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal and pears.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, broccoli, with pears and clementine’s.

Snack: Graham crackers and mozzarella string cheese.

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Link to pictures: WF 12/19

Link to pictures from Star Carolers: WF 12/19 Carolers

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Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh raspberries.

Lunch– Scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh cucumber/peppers.

PM snack– Blue corn chips and refried beans.

Wee Sprout– Fresh peppers.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Good Afternoon.

“We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.” ~Maria Montessori

Please Note: The Wee Wee Friends classroom will be undergoing some exciting new changes for our friends. During our two week break, Tami and her husband will be working hard to make our classroom environment even better. Tami will be re-locating our reading and dramatic play areas with some new and exciting features! Rebekah and I are VERY, VERY excited and we can’t wait to have you all see these wonderful changes as well. Stay Tuned Guys!!!  

Puzzles are always a favorite fine motor and cognitive activity that our friends just love, but today we were able to engage in an even more exciting puzzle. A large fire truck floor puzzle. Jack and his friend Evie had a fantastic time working together, communicating and problem solving on this activity!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and pears.

Lunch: Scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, corn, and pears.

Snack: Whole wheat crackers with cream crackers, and clementine’s.

Wee Sprout: Peas.

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

K/PREK1 continued our exploration into our favorite stories. On today’s agenda was ‘Mud Puddle’ written by Robert Munsch. We absolutely love the sarcasm and funny nature of Robert Munsch’s writing. In the story ‘Mud Puddle’, the main character continues to be attacked by a mud puddle, specifically on certain areas of her body including her eyes, her ears, and her nose. These events happen in a specific order so before each event came up, friends shared what they remembered or what was going to happen next.

The story ends when the main character throws soap into the mud puddle’s middle and the mud puddle ended up turning around and jumping over the fence and never came back. As a group, we hypothesized where the mud puddle went. Anna suggested that maybe the mud puddle went to the next house, jumping on the heads of little kids in the backyard.

PREK2 used gingerbread to find the answer to a word problem. The question was :”Franklin and Ruby each left Santa 3 cookies. B and Chloe left 2 cookies. David left 5 cookies. How many cookies did everyone leave?” Friends used the gingerbread as manipulatives to count how many cookies Santa got. Together, they came up with the number 15!

Enjoy a few pictures from the rest of our day!

Breakfast– Oatmeal squares and fresh raspberries.

Lunch– Shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– English muffins with cream cheese and fresh pears.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

Have a fantastic night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/18

Good Afternoon.

“The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is just not play… it is work he must do in order to grow up.” ~Maria Montessori

I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that Friday, December 21st we will have a pajama day!  

We are all kind of bummed that there is no real snow for us to go outside and play in, so I brought some “snow” to us! We normally have our shaving cream sensory play more contained (if you will) but not today!! It was spread out over the entire kitchen table for us to engage in and we LOVED it!

Cars and trucks, gold and red glitter, colorful straws and tongue depressors, and even old marker caps were all added in to heighten our sensory fun.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios, and banana.

Lunch: whole wheat tortillas with black refried beans and shredded cheese, corn, and clementine’s.

Snack: Pretzels and Mozzarella string cheese. 

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a wonderful night.

Marty

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Good Afternoon and happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend.

Just a friendly reminder that Wee Friends will be closed next week, December 24th through January 4th. We will return to the classroom on Monday, January 7th.

“Within the child lies the fate of the future.” ~Maria Montessori

We started off our day by welcoming our good friend Jack back. He was with his Grandma last week having tons of fun! We missed our good buddy, and we’re glad he’s back to play with us.  

We introduced the Duplos into the classroom last week, and Jack was so happy to see them, he started building right away.

He told Miss Marty he was making a train to go “Choo Choo.” We added in more duplos to our already large amount to make our experience even more fun.

This activity enhances color recognition, fine motor, and cognitive thinking skills as well as building our imagination.

We all LOVE to read books and there’s nothing better than a good book, especially fun Christmas stories! As these stories were being read, all of our friends raced over to listen. Two of our favorites are called, Dream Snow, by Eric Carle and Who’s That Knocking on Christmas Eve by Jan Brett.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch: Whole grain pasta with shredded beef, peas, and banana.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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