Good Afternoon and Happy Friday!
Enjoy some pictures from our day!
Breakfast: whole grain rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh pineapple.
Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/apple, and fresh cucumbers/carrots/bell peppers.
Snack: Pretzels, mozzarella cheese stick, and fresh blueberries.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/carrots/bell peppers.
Link to Pictures: 2023-10-27
Have a wonderful weekend!
~ Wee Friends Teachers
Good afternoon!
Today is our friend Eden’s first birthday! We enjoyed sharing this special day with you and hope you have a great rest of your birthday.
Our friends explored the color pyramid squares with the sunlight. They put them up on the windowsill and looked through them. Dax and Eleanor looked at their friends through the rails of the Habi-trail and shared big smiles. Another friend made music with the piano and Eden worked on taking Little People dolls out of the basket.
We made our way to the kitchen to engage in some sensory loose parts play. We used metal spoons and tongs to pick up dominoes and pom poms.
Outside, we enjoyed playing in the rock area with trucks and using our imaginative skills to cook in the play kitchen.
Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex cereal with fresh plum.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, yellow bell pepper, stark crimson pear slices.
Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds with whole wheat Triscuits crackers.
Have a wonderful evening!
Tina and Rebekah
Link to pictures: 2023-10-26
Good Afternoon!
We started off the morning with several different activities including a loose parts activity, puzzles, sensory bin play with kinetic sand, and building with various blocks!
After, we were able to get outside after all the rain yesterday and enjoy some sandbox play, climbing, and looking at all the different leaves that are starting to fall!
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh blueberries.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, fresh bananas/pineapple, and fresh cucumbers/tomatoes/carrots
PM Snack: Corn tortilla chips with hummus
Wee Sprouts: Fresh bell peppers/carrots/tomatoes/cucumbers
Link to Photos: 2023-10-26
Have a great evening!
~ Wee Friends Teachers
Good Afternoon!
Even though it was a rainy day, it didn’t dampen our mood. We brought down the red disc swing for everyone to take a turn to swing.
Miss Bekah also added a color block pyramid to the housekeeping area. We enjoyed taking the pyramid apart and looking through each of the colored squares.
We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Bekah to engage in water play with real leaves. Inside the table we explored using a baster to squeeze that water into and then back out, slotted spoons to scoop up the leaves and watch the water run through, tongs for picking the leaves up with and bowls to place them in or to scoop the water into and then pour it out. During our play, we found that if we were to put the wet leaf onto our skin it would stay in place and we would have to use our hand to remove it from our skin.
We then headed out to crawl through the big tunnel. We had 4 passage ways to choose from and a hole in the middle to pop up and look out. We had a great time using it.
Eleanor enjoyed sitting on the reading step to look at a book and crawling on the habi-trail and peeking around to see Ben. Eden enjoyed exploring and looking inside of the Peek-a-blocks and another friend was crawling over the textured circles to feel them on his knees.
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar cheese, fresh green apple slices, orange bell pepper slices and whole grain wheat English muffin.
Afternoon Snack: Hummus on whole grain wheat flatbread.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah and Tina
Link to pictures: 2023-10-25
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