Happy Friday! Enjoy the many pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pineapple/cantaloupe.
Lunch: Turkey lunch meat with whole grain wheat bread, bananas/fresh pineapple and sweet potatoes.
Afternoon Snack: Pretzels and Colby-jack cheese slices.
Wee Sprouts: Mini sweet bell peppers.
Link to pictures: 2024-03-22
Good Afternoon!
For PREK1 sign in, children came to the sign in board where they found an array of stars; three rows of five stars. Instead of counting each star, they either counted by 5’s to get the answer or added 5 three times. These seem like the same thing but if children can’t count by 5’s yet, it’s easier to lay out 5 + 5 + 5 to get the answer!
Later on during journal time, children drew very detailed and unique drawings in their journal. Hannah is getting a big kid shot tomorrow which is causing her to be a little worried. Her journal was a great place for her to share her thoughts about her upcoming shot. We talked about it while she drew about it and later wrote her description.
Our Pre-k group has been very interested in first and last names over the past week. To help support that interest, we created a first/last name matching game. We covered the round table with colored cards containing every classmates first and last name. The goal was to work together to match everyone’s first name with their last name and lay them out in order on the floor chart. Each five year old got a class list to help them sort. They did an amazing job working as a team and were able to get everyone’s first and last name paired correctly! It was great fun! Several interested younger friends got a chance to explore the cards after the five year old’s were finished. Some were able to pick out their own name.
During Pre-K 2 group, we recreated a version of the matching game that was developmentally appropriate for our group members. All of the younger kids matched their name sticker with their first name written on the board.
Breakfast– Kix with fresh cantaloupe/banana.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.
PM snack– Blue corn tortilla chips with homemade guacamole.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a great night!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2024-03-21
Good afternoon!
Our friends danced with colorful silk scarves this morning. Miss Bekah played the “Shake Your Sillies Out” song for us to dance along to.
We made our way to the kitchen to engage with a loose parts activity. Our friends worked on matching their beads to the pattern on their cards or looping the beads through a pipe cleaner. While our friends waited for their turn at the kitchen table, they played with our object-permanence boxes.
Our friends then went on to go on a bear hunt with their stuffed animals, marching along to the “Ants Go Marching” song with rhythm sticks, and listening to Miss Bekah read us some books.
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with black beans, fresh cantaloupe, and peas.
Afternoon Snack: Peanut butter on whole grain Wheat Thins crackers and fresh pineapple.
Wee Sprouts: Green bell peppers.
Have a wonderful afternoon!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2024-03-21
Happy Wednesday and First full day of Spring
This morning we began up on the habi-trail watching the recycling truck empty the recycle bins. We then continued through the habi-trail to slide down the slide and flip over the top rung of the ladder.
We then headed into the kitchen for some shaving cream sensory play. We used our hands to squish the cream between our hands, spread it around or make circles on our trays.
We then engaged with the occupational people, built with Duplos, rocked in the rocking chair with a friend, built and sat or climbed on the hollow blocks or plastic blocks.
Breakfast: Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh oranges/pears, cucumbers and whole grain wheat tortillas.
Afternoon Snack: Ritz crackers with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Mini sweet bell peppers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2024-03-20
Good Afternoon!
We want to wish Hannah a big happy 3rd birthday! Thank you for the yummy snack you brought in—we hope you had a fantastic birthday!
We’ve been on the topic of libraries this week in PREK1 group and how librarians categorize books. During sign in, we looked at a specific book from the reading area that was written by Mo Willems. Children signed in under the letter that librarians would use to categorize the book. Later on in group, we identified the author that wrote the book and talked about what section we’d find that book in if we were to go to the library.
K.1.19: Learn and apply knowledge of alphabetical order (first letter) when using a classroom or school library/media center.
This morning our older friend Hannah was talking about troglobites. This is an interest she has had before and that interest has returned. Several friends were wondering what troglobites were and she explained that they are cave dwelling creatures that live in the dark. A book on caves from the science center was brought out and read to a group of interested friends. Since several were very interested in the idea of cave dwelling animals, we decided to build some of our own. We made some earth colored play dough, added some rocks and sticks to help with structural building and got to work. I searched our animal collection to find animals from the cave book. We read that snakes, salamanders, and frogs live at the mouth of caves so we added them. We read that bats and cave crickets live deeper in the caves so we added them too. We had some great imaginative play in our hand made cave ecosystems!
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with fresh cantaloupe.
Lunch– Farm fresh eggs with whole wheat tortilla, bananas/Hannah’s birthday applesauce pouches, and fresh cucumber/pepper.
PM snack– Hannah’s birthday fruit kabobs and block cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a lovely night!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2024-03-20
Today, our friends…
used their imagination skills in the play kitchen…
explored playdough with different tools…
and worked on sorting shapes or playing with wooden trains.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios cereal with fresh apple slices.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat flatbread with refried beans and shredded cheddar cheese, fresh orange slices, and mini sweet bell peppers.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with peanut butter and fresh pear.
Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.
Have a great evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2024-03-19
Good Afternoon! We hope you enjoy the photos from our day!
Breakfast– Chex and fresh pears.
Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper/cherry tomatoes.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.
Have a wonderful night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2024-03-19
Good Afternoon!
**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed on Friday, March 29 for Good Friday!
This morning everyone enjoyed working at the sensory bin, engaged in a treasure hunt through the rice. Older kids searched for ten of each colored gem to sort into ten jars. This gave them ten groups of ten. They could then count by ten to get 100 gems. Younger friends spent their time finding gems and sorting them by color. Several imaginative play games came about as well, like “the smoothy shop” and pretend “popped corn”.
At the round table our welcome activity encouraged counting to ten and recognizing groups of ten objects.
Breakfast- Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh pears.
Lunch- Whole wheat pasta with shredded chicken/fresh tomatoes/fresh basil from our kitchen garden, fresh clementines/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.
PM snack- Whole milk yogurt with granola.
Wee Sprout- Fresh pepper/cucumber.
Have a lovely night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2024-03-18
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
