Happy Wednesday!

Everyone was excited to finally taste the long awaited potatoes from this garden season.  After digging up our potatoes yesterday, it was time to prepare them!  Older friends got to dig them up, so younger friends got a chance to get involved in the potato project.  Everyone who was interested got a chance to scrub the potatoes with a sponge until they were very VERY clean.  They hardly needed to be peeled!  It was voted on among our big kids that mashed would be the best way to prepare them (even though I  strongly advocated for soup, I was wildly over ruled).  At lunch time everyone got to taste the fresh mashed potatoes!  Needless to say the potato bowls were scraped clean!

Big kids enjoyed several group games of go-fish on this rainy wet morning!

Our PREK2 journal group has been learning and growing!  Name recognition is really catching on among all our young friends!  A few friends have started to write part of or all of their names.  Everyone has wonderfully creative descriptions of what they are drawing too!

Breakfast: Cinnamon oatmeal with fresh plums

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, garden fresh mashed potatoes grown by the class, fresh green beans, carrots and green apple slices

PM Snack:  Peanut butter and seeds on whole wheat crackers

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers

Link to Photos:2023-10-25

Enjoy the rest of your day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good afternoon!

This morning we made music with the xylophones and pianos. We also sat on the reading steps to read books on our own.

We made our way to the kitchen to engage with loose parts play. We stacked rings on top of a wooden person on our trays.

We enjoyed some of our favorite activities outside. We rode bikes, practiced our throwing skills with balls, played in the sandbox, and poured rocks on our construction vehicles.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh peach slices.

Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with peanut butter, 1/2 stick of mozzarella cheese, fresh oranges, and corn.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain cinnamon raisin wheat bagel with butter and green apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Red bell pepper.

Have a beautiful evening (and enjoy the warmer weather)!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-10-24

Good Afternoon!

Today we got into the science of opposites as we conducted a sink or float experiment.  Older friends examined the objects we were testing ahead of time and made “predictions” about what would sink and what would float.  Next we tested the objects.  Based on our developmental level we either talked about our findings or recoded them ourselves in an “Experimental log”.  Last we drew conclusions and talked about anything we learned. Some friends observed that even though some of the objects felt light weight in our hands, they still sank.  We noticed that all of the objects with this quality were made of metal.   One of our friends observed that the feather floated at first but later it started to sink.  She noticed the same phenomenon with the puff ball.  We talked about what had changed and after some discussion concluded that the two objects had absorbed some water.  This could be easily tested and proven by squeezing the wet puff ball.  Solid science!

In the garden today it was finally dry enough to excavate our potatoes.  Older friends dug up the potatoes with shovels.  Arthur got to have the honorary job of putting the uprooted potatoes into a bucket event though he is a younger friend since he helped find all the shovels for the project.

PREK2:  In group today we read the story “The Creature of Habit”.  After the story we chose whether the very big creature or the very small creature was our favorite character in the story.

Breakfast: Oatmeal squares with fresh blueberries.

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread with fresh banana/orange slices, and fresh green beans.

PM Snack:  Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers and carrot slices.

Link to Photos:2023-10-24

Enjoy this lovely fall afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Monday!

We kicked off our Monday by talking about groups with similarities for PREK1 sign in. There were three four sided shapes and children had to determine which shape (triangle, circle, or rectangle) fit into the group above.

K.RV.2.2: Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories (e.g. colors, shapes, opposites).

Today was an opposite day!  We used black and white to talk about opposites.  In the art center we made black and white art.  We chose black and white objects and tried gluing them on their opposite back grounds, creating interesting and contrasting compositions.

For our welcome activity we tried a “same or different” exercise with black and white.  We could choose to put the black and white objects on a black or white back ground.  We talked about whether we had chosen the same color back ground or a different color back ground. 

We enjoyed  recalling our same/different and opposites conversations during play with some black and white beans in the sensory bin.

PREK2: During group time today we passed around a stone and a feather.  We talked about the differences between the objects.  We noticed that the stone was “heavy and cold” while the feather was “light, soft and warm”.  hey were opposites.  We read the story ‘The Same But Different’.  Lastly, we looked at the board as a class and determined whether all of the paired shapes were the same or different.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara and mozzarella cheese, fresh watermelon, and cucumber/carrots.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh orange bell peppers.

Link to Photos:2023-10-23

Enjoy the afternoon sunshine!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Happy Monday!

Our older friends engaged in dress up hats and working to dress their baby dolls into the outfit they chose.

Our younger friends were busy on the reading step pulling the books off the shelf and choosing one to look at.  Eleanor also engaged in activities on the Zany Zoo Activity box.

The older friends went into the kitchen with Miss Tina to decorate our pumpkin with markers.

Eleanor mastered climbing up onto the habi-trail today.  While she was up on it, she stood and looked out the window and crawled over to work at moving the beads on the wall maze board.

Even though the fall air was a little colder this morning, it didn’t stop us.  We enjoyed going down the slide, climbing up the rock paths and tossing the colorful leaves in the air.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter/cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded turkey, fresh stark crimson pear slices and sweet potatoes.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts:  Red bell peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-10-23

Happy Friday!

This morning the friends began in the housekeeping area.  Eliza engaged with a baby doll and worked to put an outfit on it, Ben and 2 other friends engaged with the fruits and veggies and put them into the counter and sink to get them ready to wash.  Eleanor pulled herself up to stand at the Duplo shelf and looked into the mirror while holding a ball to observe her reflection.

We then headed into the kitchen to paint with watercolor cakes.  We learned the process of having to get our brush wet with water, then rub our brush on the color cake we wanted to get the paint on our brush, then cleaning our brush in the water before getting another color.  We made colorful masterpieces and really enjoyed painting with them.

We were so happy that the rain stopped so we could get outside to play.  We rode on the teeter totters, pushed the construction trucks around in the rock area and cooked in the play kitchen.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Hummus, whole grain wheat bread, fresh watermelon/peach slices and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-10-20

Happy Friday! 

We’ve been working with graphs in PREK1 group this week and today for our sign in activity, we looked at a graph that had our favorite fruit graphed. Children had to identify the fruit that had gotten the most votes which was peach!

K.W.5: With support, build understanding of a topic using various sources. (Identify relevant pictures, charts, grade-appropriate texts, personal experiences, or people as sources).

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and red pears.

Lunch: Refried bean and cheese on whole wheat tortillas, fresh peaches/pears, and carrots/cucumbers.

PM Snack: Pretzels with sliced cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Fresh orange pepper slices.

Link to Photos: 2023-10-20

See you next week!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Hello Families! It was a gray rainy day outside and a busy day inside at Wee Friends.

We made some seasonal black and orange play dough to explore in the art center this morning!  Everyone has been talking a lot about Halloween, so it seems to be a strong interest in the classroom right now.  Our orange playdough was scented with pumpkin pie spice and we were able to make pretend pumpkin pies in little pie trays, then use a butter knife to cut the pie into pieces.  We got a chance to talk about cutting a pie in half and in quarters.  The black playdough was sprinkled with silver glitter like a night sky.  Everyone enjoyed using cookie cutters to cut out stars and nocturnal animals like owls and bats.   

We continued the seasonal theme in the sensory bin as well.  We enjoyed creating concoctions with our orange tinted water, bottles, eyedroppers, tongs and spiders.

Breakfast: Kicks cereal with fresh red pears

Lunch: Brown rice with chicken and fresh cucumbers and bananas

PM Snack:  Trail mix with sunflower seeds, peanuts, raisins and pepita seeds

Wee Sprouts: Fresh yellow and red bell peppers

Link to Photos:2023-10-19

Have a lovely day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good afternoon!

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex cereal with watermelon slices.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, crimson pears, and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds with whole grain Triscuits crackers.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-10-19

Good Afternoon!

This morning we got down the stepping circles and liquid squares and made a path to the habi-trail steps for us to follow.

We then headed into the kitchen to work on our patterning and sorting skills with wooden loose part circles and sticks.  We used a pattern card to follow and place the correct item that matched the picture we saw next on the card. 

We then engaged with our shape stackers and worked at stacking the shapes on their stacker pole.

Outside we went down the slide, played with our older brother, walked around with trucks, and used a dustpan set to collect mulch.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh watermelon, peas and whole grain wheat bread with butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Ritz crackers with hummus.

Wee Sprouts:  Yellow/Red bell peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-10-18