Happy Friday! Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and cantaloupe.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh pear slices and corn/peas.
Afternoon Snack: Mozzarella cheese stick, whole grain Ritz crackers and fresh apple slices.
Wee Sprouts: Orange bell peppers.
Have a wonderful and safe holiday break and New Year and we will see you in January!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-12-22
Good afternoon! We hope that everyone has a happy and restful Winter Break! See you all in 2024!
Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and pear/apple slices
Lunch: Turkey on whole wheat bread with fresh cucumbers and pineapple
PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with apple slices
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and bell peppers
Link to Photos:2023-12-22
Have a wonderful winter break!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
We started our morning with some dancing! We played, “The Beanie Bag Dance” and friends used their bean bags to follow the directions of the song!
Then, we moved into the kitchen for some sensory play! We used the remaining ice cubes from yesterday’s activity to do some ice fishing! We used magnets/magnetic fish and other sea animals to manipulate with the ice and animals.
Breakfast: Kix cereal and fresh pear slices.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with black beans, fresh cantaloupe and cucumbers.
Afternoon Snack: Sweet Potato crackers with fresh pears/cucumbers.
Wee Sprouts: Mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a terrific evening!
Rebekah and Jena
Link to pictures: 2023-12-21
Good Afternoon!
**Tomorrow is holiday/winter pajama and clothing day!
We all enjoyed a second day of the arctic/Antarctic sensory bin! We added some blue as a bit of novelty to spur new thoughts around imaginative play. One of our friends decided it reminded her of a pool, so her penguins were spending the day at a swimming pool.
Several friends were feeling in the mood for puzzles today! Arthur was proud of his work on the 24 piece puzzle stack. He asked this morning if he could try the harder puzzles after mastering the foam puzzle difficulty level. He had some help but was motivated to learn to do larger puzzles!
Albert was hard at work building all morning. He built a “trap” using most of the blocks available. He said the trap was designed to trap “him”…a little like playing yourself in a chess game:) He enjoyed the challenge immensely !
Breakfast: Kicks cereal with banana
Lunch: Brown rice with shredded pork, fresh cantaloupe, sugar snap peas and carrots
PM Snack: Trail mix with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, peanuts and raisins
Wee Sprouts: Fresh peppers and carrot slices
Have a wonderful night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2023-12-21
Good Afternoon!
**Friday will be holiday pajama/clothing day!
PREK1 group members worked on counting syllables today for sign in! Each child pointed to a holiday word and we worked together to count the number of syllables in the word. Their goal was to find a two syllable word. When children chose the word ‘snow’, we found out that it didn’t work because snow is a one syllable word. When each child found a two syllable word, they circled the word and wrote their name next to the word.
We enjoyed a problem solving sensory/science experiment as our activity for the morning. Friends were presented with a variety of arctic and Antarctic animals frozen in blocks or cubes of ice. The goal was to melt our animals free of the ice. Some friends first tried an eye dropper for the big blocks. As this was tedious, they focused on the smaller penguin ice cubes. Paige found that stirring them in water was the best solution and freed a few of the trapped birds. Katherine felt that the water temperature was too cold for a successful melt, so she asked to try warm water. After trying that, she reported that the process was running more smoothly…in not so many words:)
In the art center, Cassie and our younger girls has a little painting party. They enjoyed conversation around what they were painting!
In PREK2 group today we sang the name song and clapped our name syllables. We read the story “I Feel Silly” and reported how we were feeling today. Some of us were more elaborate sharing about our feelings:)
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon and bananas.
Lunch: Scrambled farm fresh eggs with whole wheat tortillas, fresh cantaloupe/apples, and fresh carrot/cucumber.
PM Snack: Fresh apple slices with peanut butter and yogurt dip.
Wee sprouts: Fresh carrot and cucumber slices.
Link to Photos: 2023-12-20
Have a wonderful day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
This morning friends engaged in a variety of activities. Dax was a veterinarian and gave his bear a check up, Ben and Eden dressed up in dress up clothes and accessories, and Eleanor was busy getting water from the faucet into her cup.
We then headed into the kitchen for a sensory experience with ice cubes. We had a scoop, a cup and a bear on our tray. While engaged in play, several friends shared what they were doing? Dax shared his polar bear, “sit on ice.” Another friend saw his ice cube melted on his tray and said, “make puddles.” Ben shared that he was using his scoop to “dump it.” It is wonderful to hear the friends sharing their thoughts to everyone on what they are doing.
Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh red bell peppers and pineapple.
Afternoon Snack: Refried beans and white corn tortilla chips.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah and Jena
Link to pictures: 2023-12-20
Good Afternoon!
This morning the boys were building with the hollow blocks. They added animals to enhance their play and were making the sounds of their animals.
We then headed into the kitchen to decorate a large piece of paper with dot markers that we will use to wrap our special gift to our parents.
Then most of us sat on the reading step or in a brown chair to engage in a book independently.
Breakfast: Corn Chex cereal and fresh pineapple.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole grain wheat tortillas, bananas, peas and 1/2 a mozzarella cheese stick.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.
Wee Sprouts: Orange mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a terrific evening!
Rebekah and Jena
Link to pictures: 2023-12-19
Good afternoon families!
Be sure to PICK UP YOUR CHILD’S HOLIDAY GIFT! They made the entire gift themselves all the way down to the wrapping paper, and cannot wait to give it to you! The gift is inside your child’s art cubby located above the regular cubies.
This morning we explored a magnetic welcome activity. We looked at a couple of different models for building a house with the magnetic tiles in the center of the table which we could try building ourselves if we wanted to. We decorated the magnetic creations with holiday bells. Next we tested our creations with some imaginative play. We could add people and cars to our creations and play as long as we wanted. Several of us were able to add to the basic design expanding the possibilities. There were two and three story houses, garages and even an rocket ship.
In the art center we got to create using collage materials. We used a variety of beads, pipe cleaners and paper shapes to make artwork. Some of us made “name collages”. We wrote our name and a teacher helped carefully trace it with glue. We placed the collage items carefully trying to make our name. Using pieced -together items of different shapes and sizes proved to be a fun and interesting challenge.
PREK2: Today during group time, we read the story “Mouse’s first Christmas”. We listened carefully and tried to remember one thing that mouse saw as he explored the house on Christmas Eve. At the end of the story we recalled what Mouse saw, and our teacher wrote it on the board.
Breakfast: Peanut butter on whole wheat toast with fresh orange slices
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with beef and fresh apple slices, cucumbers and peppers
PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola and Tello’s birthday treat. Happy Birthday Tello!
Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers and cucumbers
Link to Photos: 2023-12-18
Enjoy the ret of your day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Happy Snowy Monday!
This morning we were all engaged in the housekeeping area. We were busy making food or playing doctor and applying a band-aid to our friends arm.
Since it was snowing and we had been watching the snowflakes fall from the sky, we painted with snowflake stamps. We filled our papers full of snowflakes.
We then headed out to engage with musical instruments. We were all making beautiful sounds together on our pianos and xylophones and or making a beat on our drums.
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pear slices.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat penne pasta with black beans, fresh pineapple and carrots.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Red mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a great evening and stay safe and warm,
Rebekah and Jena
Link to pictures: 2023-12-18
Happy Friday!
**Wee Friends will be closed for our winter break starting Monday, December 25th through Friday, January 5th. We’ll reopen Monday, January 8th.
PREK1 friends came to the sign in board where they had to finish one of our favorite holiday songs: Jingle Bells! They had to figure out the last word of the posted verse! Using their knowledge of letter sounds, they figured out which word said ‘sleigh’ because the ssss sound is an S! A few friends even tried to figure out what the other two words said by sounding out the word.
Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pineapple.
Lunch– Turkey on whole wheat bread, banana, and fresh cucumber/carrot.
PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and a variety of toppings including pepita seeds, sunflower seeds, and peanuts!
Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.
Have a lovely weekend!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2023-12-15