Happy Friday Families!

*Reminder: Wee Friends will be closed Thursday, November 23rd and Friday, November 24th.

*Remember to check the art files up above the cubbies. Some of them are bursting with artwork :).

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

For our PREK1 sign in, children came to the board where they got to choose a notecard from the bottom of the easel. They read aloud the equation (5-3 for example) and had to figure out the total. The equations were a mixture of addition and subtraction. Once they figured out the total, they taped their equation under their total!

K.CA.1-2: Solve real world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1)

William was in the mood for projects this morning!  He first got to work creating a comic book about “Building things”.  The comic book was appropriately named “Road Builder”.  Next he built a bird, an airplane and a shield all out of paper and tape! It was a very productive morning for William!  

The interest in book making continued among others in the class as well!  Many of us participated in the creation of a class book.  Everyone worked on creating one page and describing what they had made.  Everyone that was able signed their work.

The collage project with scissors, shaped paper punches and leaves continued today as well.  Several friends revisited these tools creating more collages while others who had not joined in before gave the project as try.

There has been an ongoing chain project that many of our classmates have worked on over the past couple of days.  During this process the round table has been wrapped all the way around in chains.  Against all reason, several fiends have enthusiastically volunteered themselves to be chained to a chair like some sort of meticulous preparation for a magicians trick…though no one ever did make a miraculous escape…

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter with fresh pears

Lunch: Ham sandwiches on whole wheat bread with fresh cantaloupe and sliced carrots

PM Snack: Colby Jack cheese with pretzels

Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers and green beans

Link to photos:2023-11-17

Enjoy your weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

Today we celebrated a friend’s birthday so we brought out the stacking birthday cake. We helped each other stack the different number layers and noticed that the layers alternated between brown and white.

We then made our way to the kitchen with Miss Bekah to engage in some sensory play with shaving cream and trucks. We first explored it with our hands and rubbed it all over our spot at the table. We then used trucks to create prints in our shaving cream.

Our friends enjoyed playing with balls and using them to practice their throwing skills. Even our babies got to explore the balls. Our friends also enjoyed riding the bikes down the hill.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Kix cereal and bananas.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh pineapple, and frozen whole kernel corn.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Wheat Thins crackers with peanut butter and GoGo Squeez Organc Fruit & Veggie pouches (friend’s birthday treat).

Wee Sprouts: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-11-16

Good Afternoon! Enjoy the pictures from out day!

Breakfast– Chex and fresh strawberries/banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh pineapple/banana, and fresh pepper/green beans.

PM snack– Trail mix with sunflower seeds, pepita seeds, granola and peanuts

Wee Sprout– Fresh green beans/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2023-11-16

Good afternoon!

This morning we began by engaging in a book independently.

We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Tina to work with our loose part beads.  We were given a pipe cleaner to work on stringing our beads onto it.

Eden and Eleanor engaged with the object permanence boxes with balls to place the ball into the hole and watch for it to reappear in the drawer or tray.  They were also sharing and handing their balls to each other.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and Fall morning.  We rode with a friend on the teeter totter, ordered food from our friend in the play house and Eleanor enjoyed her toys on the blanket.

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh strawberries.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh cucumbers, pear slices and whole grain wheat tortillas.

Afternoon Snack:  White corn tortilla chips and hummus.

Wee Sprout:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-11-15

Good Afternoon!

We have been noticing Nesta’s continued interest in daily renderings of the alphabet in marker, stencil, pencil and just about every material available.  In response this morning we put out materials for a little alphabet book making project to see if it would offer a new angle and material for this interest.  We offered stamps, colored pencils and markers plus a little book with a colored paper cover.  There was interest from the whole class who joined in to created their own version of a book.  Some mixed print with illustration.  Some devoted a page to each letter in the alphabet.  Some stamped and some wrote the letters.  There were several letter books but only one that made it all the way to letter Z:)  The project was open ended and had a lot of room for creative solutions!

Breakfast- Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh strawberries.

Lunch- Farm fresh hard boiled eggs, fresh apple slices/homemade baked cinnamon apples, and fresh carrots.

PM snack-Popped corn with raisins

Wee Sprout- Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2023-11-15

Good afternoon!

This morning we enjoyed reading books with a friend and with Miss Bekah. We also looked at our reflection in the mirror and played with bean bags.

Our babies attempted building with Legos and exploring the Habi-trail.

We got new rakes for our friends. They all took turns raking leaves and helping each other collect the leaves into their green buckets.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios cereal with fresh pear slices.

Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with refried beans and shredded Colby-Jack cheese, fresh apple slices, and red bell pepper.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and strawberries.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Tina and Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-11-14

Good Afternoon!

Our PREK1 friends have been focusing on simple addition problems. Today, they came to sign in and after finding their name, identified the two numbers that they’d be adding together. Some friends were able to do the addition problem without any manipulatives while others used color sorters to add the two numbers. A few friends needed help writing their sum so they connected the dots to make the correct number with the help of a teacher!

K.CA.1-2: Solve real world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1).

This morning we created some interactive math activities that were designed to meet our young learners where ever they were, based on age and/or development.  Our youngest friends were able to sort by color and count a few of their sorted objects.  Some were able to select the correct corresponding number tile for their sum.  Older friends used the wood number pieces to create some simple addition problems.  Since the opportunity was there, friends who had the understanding were able to create subtraction and multiplication problems as well.  It was wonderful to see the curiosity, enthusiasm and confidence to try this activity from all of our Wee Friends!

Outside we all got to try out our new classroom leaf rakes.  We had quite the leaf clean up crew!  Many of our friends did a wonderful job working together to rake, pick up and cart the leaves to the yard waste bin.  Older friends helped younger friends pick up the cart to dump it in.  Older friends also helped to show younger friends how to use the rake to get it to rake up the leaves efficiently.  Great teaching and team work Wee Friends!

Our younger friends are continuing to work on their journaling skills.  Most of our PREK2 journaling group has been able to recognize and pick out their name stick.  A couple of friends are starting to write their names as well.  We have such rich descriptions of artwork coming from this group!  Bubble drawings were popular this time around!  We had girls trapped in bubbles, Bubble monsters and bubble machines!

Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh pineapple.

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh strawberries/pineapple, and green beans/cucumber.

PM Snack: Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers.

Link to photos: 2023-11-14

Enjoy the rest of your day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Good Afternoon!

Today we….

tried on a variety of dress-up hats…

engaged with playdough. We explored alphabet letters as a few friends have shown interest in, that we could stamp in it; shape cookie cutters, rolling pins and hammers to cut with and flatten it…

and then headed outside to hold hands with a friend to go down the slide, engaged with the dinosaurs and poured sand down a chute, and watched it slide down into the sandbox.

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

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat elbow macaroni with red beans, fresh cucumbers and strawberries.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures:  2023-11-13

Happy Monday!

PREK1 friends had the option to sign in this morning where they worked on an addition problem. We used our fingers to help us add 5 and 3 together. When children got total, they had to identify the number 8 below!

K.CA.1-2: Solve real-world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1)

Our focus remained on numbers during PREK1 group as we read, ‘Goodnight Numbers’ before solving five addition problems. Some friends chose to use their fingers to add the two numbers together while others strictly tried to do the math in their head.

K.CA.1-2: Solve real-world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1)

Many of our friends were every engaged with the shredded paper sensory bin this morning.  It was a new, interesting material offering a weight and texture that was novel.  Many ideas were born of this new material experience.  One of our fiends came up with a coconut factory.  He put together a tube and funnel that was a “coconut shredding machine”.  He used the whisk and the factory’s “coconut tornado” machine as part of the coconut preparation process.  He said that the factory’s main product was Coconut soup!  Loose parts always spur such creativity.

The art center was productive this morning in developing  language arts skills!  Nesta has been diligently studying the alphabet and practicing her hand writing.  Other friends watching her got interested in writing as well.  Other friends practiced writing numbers today.  Several of younger friends have had continued interest in collage art.  The paper stamps have been appealing little contraptions creating a variety of shapes to add to the collage art.  One of our younger friend made a job for himself of just punching shapes for other friends.  He had no interest in making anything…just stamping!

PREK2:  In group today we read the story “The Listening Walk”.  After the story we thought about sounds that we heard when we were walking outside to create a list on the board.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh clementines .

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara and cheese, fresh pineapple/strawberries, and fresh cucumbers

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans and carrot slices.

Link to photos: 2023-11-13

Have a great night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Reminder:  Wee Friends will be closed Thursday, November 23-Friday, November 24th for Thanksgiving break.  Thank you.

Happy Sunny Friday!

This morning we began by climbing.  We climbed on the rainbow mats to sit on them and then stacked the big plastic blocks together to stand on top of while holding onto the metal bars of the habi-trail top rung of the ladder.

We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Tina to engage with our dot markers on coffee filters and pieces of paper.  We filled our coffee filters and papers full of colors to create dot masterpieces.

We then headed outside to engage in many of our favorite activities.

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

Lunch:  Turkey lunch meat and sliced cheddar cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh watermelon and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Pretzels, mozzarella cheese stick and watermelon.

Wee Sprout:  Red bell peppers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah and Tina

Link to pictures: 2023-11-10