Happy Monday!  Please accept our apology, as we had some technical difficulties with our blog on Friday.

This morning Miss Paulina played with the children and our barn.  They identified farm animals, their sounds, and baby animals.  The children also did some yoga.  While Miss Paulina was inside with this group of children, Miss Lisa had some of the smaller ones outside.  The children and Miss Lisa were rolling the ball to one another, played in the sand, and enjoyed a nice swing ride while singing songs.  We also have a new flashlight that shines in red, has different sequencing and light patterns, and was great for our hunt and exploration in our cave this morning.  Alma and Umi once again transformed into a beautiful ballerina and princess.  Miss Paulina sang,  ¨Bow, Bow to Miss Melinda,¨ as the children danced.  Finn requested ¨BINGO,¨and the firetruck song.  It was then time to put on our firemen hats to sing with our firetruck song!

It has been brought to my attention that Marty is very rarely mentioned in our blog.  Please know that Marty is a big asset to our team, and while Miss Paulina and myself are engaging in activities with the older children, Marty is often tending to our infants.  She is a great multi-tasker, and is often seen with more than one baby in her arms!  Marty is also our ¨resident hairstylist,¨ and we truly do appreciate all she does for us here at WWF!

Quote for the week, provided to us by Finn:  ¨I sure am a lucky man!¨ We are the lucky ones to have your child with us!  Make it a great week!

Just  a reminder that we will be closed July 1-11 as we enjoy time with our families.

Lisa, Paulina, Amy and Marty

Several of the children played grocery store this morning by filling their baskets, picking out food items, and taking their train ride home.  Many were busy feeding their babies bottles, sitting them at the table, or swaddling and rocking with them.  It is so great to seem them pretending.   Many are still into our birthday theme, and love our pretend cake with candles.

Sunshine is here! We had noticed how the trees and tulips were blooming throughout this week and were eagerly awaiting for a sunny day to take a walk and observe the changing landscape. So wagons in hand, and Sloane in Miss Paulina´s back, off we went! We saw and conversed about colors, tulips, trees (especially Magnolia trees!), hyacinths, and dandelions.

Back at WWF’s children spent time playing at the playground. Outside children have been experimenting with a funnel in the rock area around the log cabin. Thanks to Amy’s idea. we have recycled some milk jugs, cutting them in half and making funnels. These have turned out to be interesting tools to be used in all sorts of ways.

Today the menu included whole-wheat pizza, lima beans, pineapple and apple.  The children have done an exceptional job with serving themselves this week with a little assistance from the teachers. This afternoon they will be using an apple peeler to prepare our snack.

Wishing you and your family a weekend full of sunshine.

Paulina, Lisa and Marty

Our bean seeds project has moved to the next stage! A few weeks ago wee wees  dropped bean seeds on damped paper towels and enclosed them in plastic ziplock bags. We hung the bags on sunny windows and waited for them to sprout.

This week we noticed some of them not only had sprouted but also had their first leaves out. Yesterday we began to transfer some of those into little pots with soil to help them grow bigger.

To do this, we followed following process:

1. Children scooped organic potting soil into plastic cups and tapped the tops to pack the soil in to the cup.

2. with their fingers pushed a hole into the soil to insert the sprouted seed.

3. gently pushed the seedling into the hole and covered the roots with soil leaving stem and leaves out uncovered.

4. watered the plants using a turkey baster.

Project highlights:

–While working on this project children had a chance to touch and converse with the teacher about the parts of the plant they were handling. Roots were of special interest.

–touching and running their fingers through the potting soil.

–scooping and transferring soil from the big bucket to a small plastic cup.

–using gentle pressure for handling the seedling, tapping and pocking holes on the soil.

–learning to use a baster.

Be on the look for more pictures!!

Have a wonderful day,

WWF.