Happy Friday! Enjoy some of the pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Rotisserie turkey lunch meat, whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh mini bell sweet peppers and bananas.
Afternoon Snack: Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.
Wee Sprouts: Mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a great weekend!
Rebekah and Jena
Link to pictures: 2023-12-15
Good afternoon Families! Please enjoy the photos from our day!
Breakfast: Cheerios with fresh pears
Lunch: Brown rice with pork and fresh pineapple, pears, carrots and cucumbers
PM Snack: Mozzarella cheese and Latkes (potato cakes)… Adrian shared one of his family’s traditional Hanukkah foods with the class
Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers and carrots
Link to Photos:2023-12-14
Enjoy the rest of your day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good afternoon!
We danced to “Shake Your Sillies Out” this morning with our silk scarves. The friends shook their scarves or twirled around with them. The babies enjoyed getting to dance with their friends.
We then made our way to the kitchen with Miss Bekah for some sensory play with shaving cream. Miss Bekah gave us some silver glitter for our cream to make it sparkle like snow. She also explained that bears, particularly the polar bears, are winter animals.
We went outside to engage in some of our favorite activities. We scooped up sand in the sandbox, went down the slide, played in the log house with friends, pushed trucks in the rock area, and explored mini pumpkins and gourds that we found in the housekeeping area.
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh pears.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, mini sweet peppers, and apple slices.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Wheat Thins and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber.
Have a wonderful evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-12-14
Happy Wednesday!
Early this morning one of our curious Wee Friends requested that we do an investigation project around fossil bones. Though we didn’t have any on hand at the moment, we did have access to some more recent bones for observation. We investigated a horse jaw bone and a pronghorn skull. The teeth were of special interest to everyone. We got to see how the teeth fit into the skull, which was quite intriguing. We did have some fossilized sharks teeth which everyone was interested in looking at with a magnifying glass.
In our sensory bin this morning we enjoyed some more traditional holiday themed activities:) We used magnets to search for and collect jingle bells hidden in the bin.
There was quite a gathering in the reading area today. As Ms. Mindy read, more and more friends slowly trickled in to join. Soon it was a full house!
PREK2: Today during group we enjoyed “hot chocolate” breathing exercises as we used our imaginations to pretend we were drinking hot chocolate. We read the story “Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear”. At the end of the story we thought about who we might want to give a present to. Though many of us chose family members, several of us preferred to give gifts to bears, or other wild animals:)
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh pears
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with fresh apple slices, bananas, bell peppers and cucumbers
PM Snack: Popped corn with raisins
Wee Sprouts: Fresh red bell peppers and cucumbers
Link to photos:2023-12-13
Have a wonderful afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
This morning while we were busy climbing on the habi-trail, we stopped to watch a squirrel digging for a nut in the grass and to watch the recycle truck come and pick up the recycling.
We then headed into the kitchen to draw with markers in our journal binders with Miss Tina.
We then did a movement song, called Listen and Move by Greg and Steve. We listened to different sounds and the first time through they told us the movements, such as walk, gallop, tip toe, skate, run and hop for the different sounds. The next time through, we had to identify the movement that went with the sound.
Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh pineapple.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh apple slices, peas and whole grain wheat English muffins with butter.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bread toast with peanut butter and pineapple.
Wee Sprouts: Mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-13
Good Afternoon!
The building continued today! We had a ship/raft made of notch blocks floating around the habitrail rug, an elaborate rail way system and a ferry complete with seating for unicorns. Vivid imaginations were flying free in the building area today!
We set up a couple of trays this morning to encourage exploration of numbers and letters. Several friends enjoyed using them this way, but some had other ideas. One of our younger friends decided that the number tray reminded her most of a rice cake preparation kit and got to work making rice cakes with several topping options. She served them to friends who also enjoyed the inventive twist on a counting tray! All of the above uses are exactly what these trays are set up for :).
Our big kids have been creating some amazing journals with complex drawings and lots of kid spelling. It’s clear that they are in that headspace because they spend lots of their free time in the art center creating projects that involve writing letters!
PREK2: Today during group time we practiced some midline cross exercises which helps to foster the integration of both hemispheres of the brain. We read the story “The Jacket I Wear” since we are working on putting on winter gear ourselves. We talked about putting our snow pants on first and out mittens on last. At the end of the story we picked our favorite winter gear to wear. Some of us picked several items!
Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh orange slices.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread with fresh pineapple/oranges, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.
PM Snack: Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots and cucumbers.
Link to phots: 2023-12-12
Have a great day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Good afternoon!
Our friends engaged in many different activities this morning. Ben played in the housekeeping area, Eliza and Dax made music with xylophones, Hannah danced with a bean bag, Eden looked through the books on the reading steps, and Eleanor played on the Lego building table.
We then made our way to the kitchen for some sensory play with kinetic sand in circle trays or trays with a flower pattern. We used plastic eggs and lizards to explore with the kinetic sand.
Outside we played with dinosaurs in the sandbox, rode bikes down the hill, and shared a teeter totter with a friend.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios cereal with watermelon slices.
Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with hummus, orange mini sweet pepper, and fresh pineapple.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with peanut butter and apple slices.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-12-12
Good Afternoon!
This morning a friend got out the bean bags and asked for a bean bag song. We listened and followed the directions to the Beanie Bag dance song by Greg and Steve.
We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Bekah to explore and build with the wooden loose parts and farm animals. The friends each shared the name of the animal and worked to identify the different shapes of the blocks that were on their trays.
Eleanor and another friend explored stacking pegs together in a peg board or connecting just the pegs together.
We then headed out to work on our shapes and placing them in the correct place in the shape house’s roof or worked on our tracing skills using our finger to trace the variety of tracing boards on the wall of the habi-trail.
We also engaged in books through out the morning, independently or having a teacher read to us. What a busy morning!
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and pear slices.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded chicken, fresh cucumbers and watermelon.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Red bell peppers.
Have a great evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-11
Happy Monday!
On Friday Adrian was talking about his families celebration of Hanukkah and he made a book about his traditions in the art center. Some of his friends were interested and asked questions about what his family does to celebrate. Today Adrian brought in some books and a puzzle to share more with his friends about Hanukkah traditions. Everyone enjoyed listening to a book about dreidels. They also put the puzzle together as a group. Anyone who has a special holiday tradition in their family is welcome to share with the class how their family celebrates winter holidays.
Everyone enjoyed exploring some holiday themed loose parts this morning. Several friends chose to sort by shape or color.
The building rug was a busy place today attracting a big group. Everyone enjoyed creating flying contraptions, ships and a very tall car to play imaginatively together!
PREK2: Today we practiced deep breathing with Rainbow breath. We sang the “School Family” song that we have been learning and practiced different ways of greeting friends. We shook hands, gave high fives and gave pinky shakes. It took some focused attention to find our smallest finger! We read the story “Bunnies’ first Snow” and talked about what kinds of animals hibonite and what kinds do not. Last we practiced name recognition finding our name on the board and putting our sticker next to it.
Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with kidney beans, fresh watermelon/ healthy fried apple treat cooked with just apples and cinnamon, and fresh cucumber/pepper.
PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers and red peppers
Link to Photos: 2023-12-11
Enjoy the rest of your afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Happy Friday!
We had a busy morning! We began by playing musical instruments. We enjoyed making music together and some of us sang while we were playing our instrument.
Then we were busy building. Miss Bekah brought the waffle blocks out from the kitchen area and we were busy connecting them together. Hannah said she built “a train” with her waffle blocks. She and Eliza also built with Duplos on the Duplo shelf.
Eden and Eleanor played peek-a-boo with the scarves and dress-dress up clothes,
We then headed outside to get some fresh air and sunshine on our faces. Eleanor enjoyed her toys on the blanket, while the rest of us where busy in the sandbox.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Hummus on whole grain wheat bread, fresh pear slices and sweet potatoes.
Afternoon Snack: Colby-jack block cheese and pretzels.
Wee Sprout: Green bell peppers.
Have a great weekend!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-12-08
