Welcome back!  We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!   Today we welcomed a familiar face into our classroom.  Charlotte has joined the Wee Wee classroom!  We are so happy to have her with us! Enjoy some picture of our first day back!

We also welcomed back our friend Eliza who had a birthday over our break and is now 2.  We hope you had a great birthday!

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with shredded chicken, fresh apple slices and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh pear slices.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Jena

Link to pictures: 2023-1-08

Hello, 2024!

We hope everyone had a terrific winter break!

This morning a couple of friends encountered a problem…how to get the wheels for a building toy out from under the piano.  During the trial and error process we brought out some flashlights to help our hardworking friends see what they were trying to reach.  After several attempts with different materials our two friends were able to rescue the lost part.  What remained from this project was a strong interest in continuing to use the flashlights.  This lead to a set up for flashlight experimentation.  Don’t be surprised to see more of this later in the week since it was a popular activity!  Everyone enjoyed experimenting with changing the color of the light and illuminating translucent objects.

Adrian was interested in creating some math problems today, so we brought out the unifix cubes for him to use.  He enjoyed creating groups of numbers to multiply.  This drew interest form several other friends.  A group project evolved trying to see how long of a line could be created using the cubes.  It turned out to be a challenge to keep the line of cubes from breaking.  The group had to problem solve, dividing up the labor.  Some friends held the line of cubes together while others added more at the ends.  It took a whole team to make the project  successful!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded turkey, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with gram crackers

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2024-01-08

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