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

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