Good Afternoon!

Yesterday Miss Tami brought over the cab of a wooden semi truck for us to use in our classroom.   There is a peg on it to add more pieces to.  Miss Bekah went downstairs this morning and found our shape train pieces.  We enjoyed adding train cars to it or building our own train cars with the train pieces and adding shape blocks to them to haul.

Arthur laid out the liquid stepping mats to walk across.  Several of us joined him in the activity.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Cheerios and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Peanut butter on whole grain wheat tortillas, green bell pepper slices and fresh strawberries.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat bagels with cream cheese and watermelon.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

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Happy 5th Birthday Maggie!

Today, we worked on an ant tunnel and mound building project.  Last week, when we used the sand dough, a few friends were interested in the ant that was one of the animals out on the table.  Someone buried the ant in the dough and it spurred a conversation about how ants build enormous complex systems of tunnels and rooms where they live under the ground. Today we made that idea come to life building tunnels and rooms in our sand for our any colony.  We read books about ants at the table while we worked.  We learned that different ants in the colony have different jobs.  Some are guards, others gather food and others care for the young ants.  We also talked about how ants look like worms when they are born and go through a pupa stage just like butterflies.  As we worked the project began to evolve.  One friend was very interested in the fact that some ants can lift 20 times their own body weight and made his ant carry large balls of sand.  Several of us expressed a need for ant eggs in our ant nests so we found some glass beads to serve that purpose.  Another friend wanted to build an extra long tunnel and his finger was not long enough so we solved the problem finding a stick to use as a tunnel building tool.  One friend added spiders to his ant nest and we got to learn that wolf spiders carry their babies on their backs.  After talking about the elaborate systems of tunnels and rooms plus the fact that there is a queen ant, two friends decided that ants live in castles and decided to build a castle for their colony!

Since our friends were working with ant mounds, we also brought out an ant game to incorporate math into this theme. Our friends had a mat with picnic food on it. It was numbered 1 through 10. They were to place the same amount of ants on each number.

Never a dull moment at WF! So much to do and so little time!

Breakfast: Kix & oranges

Lunch: Cheese quesadillas on flatbread, green beans/cucumbers, & watermelon

PM Snack: Homemade banana bread & pineapple/oranges

Wee Sprouts: Green beans & cucumbers

Link to pictures: 2023-03-14

Have a good afternoon,

Ms. Kim & Ms. Linsey

Happy Monday!

We began our morning engaged in a variety of activities.  Emily used the baby basket as a bed for her babies, Ben engaged with a cup, Dax and Paige created their own unique dress up outfits with accessories and Arthur engaged with an object permanence box.

We then headed into the kitchen with Miss Bekah to paint at the easel.  One side had red and purple tempera paint, while the other side had blue and yellow tempera paint.  Each side had a wide bristle and a skinny bristle brush.  We loved mixing the colors to create new ones.  Emily was painting with blue and yellow and said, “ I am doing Mouse Paint”, as she is recalling what she has learned about mixing colors in the book.  Ben enjoyed finger painting to spread his colors together as well.

Eleanor engaged in toys during tummy time on her playmat.  She reached and grabbed a different spinning toy to explore.  She then sat up a little with support from the boppy pillow to play and gave some smiles.

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

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with butter and red beans, cucumber slices and fresh pineapple slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Have a marvelous evening!

Rebekah

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Brrr!

Everyone has been very into the “Candy Shop” imaginative play theme lately. Ttoday we expanded the play into the housekeeping area so we could become artisan candy makers seeing the imaginary process of candy making through from start to finish.  First we pretended to make our candy in the kitchen, heating it over the stove, stirring it and putting it into molds (muffin tins) to cool.  Then we took our candies to market.  We had two shops complete with cash registers where we could put our candy in jars to sell to costumers.  Of course, we now needed wallets and bags to carry our money so we added that.  At the round table we had a restaurant where we could serve tea with our candies.  Later, as the game evolved the doctor tools came out. The candy shop was transformed into a pharmacy.  The candy turned to vitamins and medicines that we were selling!  What a fascinating and interesting progression all on their own. 

We got out new colors at the art easel. We just selected the primary colors. We have encouraged the WF to mix them together and see what results they can create. Imogen chose to just use the three colors, and the results are AMAZING!

The rice table came out with the tubes again. Our friends always enjoy the cause-and-effects of this activity.

A group of our older friends got out books to “read” to one another. They had some interesting conversations in between as well. We enjoy seeing their love of reading unfold.

Breakfast: PB bread & pears

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta w/ beans, green beans, and pineapple/banana

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt & granola

Wee Sprouts: Green beans

Link to pictures:  2023-03-13

Stay warm,

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Happy Friday!

**Happy 3rd birthday Katherine!!!**

Daniel and Bo wrapped up their last day of studying snakes. We investigated a map that contained all the areas snakes reside including the oceans. They took that information and applied it to the map in their journal. They discovered that snakes don’t live towards the northern and southern poles because the climate is too cold.

Since there has been a lot of interest in animals and habitats lately we enjoyed an play based activity creating and learning about animal tracks.  We got to study animal track matching cards and attempt to find the animal they belonged to.  We had books and charts to look at as well.  There was special interest in what frog, turtle, cow, horse and alligator tracks looked like.  Next we used our animals to make tracks in our home made sand dough.  Several of our friends helped make it this morning.  Expanding on the project questions came up like how to build a bird nest for the eagle that we were using to make eagle tracks.  Another friend berried an ant in  his sand which lead to a discussion about ant hills and how ants live in large colonies under the ground… so next week we will use our dough to create some of these ideas and learn more. 

In small journal group today, two of our friends had a wonderful idea to make a list of all of the names in our journal group.  Several of us have been using name index card to help with learning to write names.  Maggie and Imogen lined up the name cards and and worked together to catalog all of the names.

Closeups from our snow play!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes & banana

Lunch: Hummus wraps on whole wheat tortillas, carrots/peppers, & banana/apples

PM Snack: Katherine’s birthday treat (pumpkin bread & blueberry muffins) & hard boiled eggs

Wee Sprouts: Carrot chips & peppers

Link to pictures:  2023-03-10

Have a fantastic weekend!

Ms. Kim & Ms. Linsey

**Reminder:  Wee Friends will be closed on Friday, April 7th for Good Friday.  Thank you.

Good Afternoon!

Enjoy the pictures from our snowy Friday.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and bananas.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat bread, fresh pear slices/bananas and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Yellow bell peppers.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

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Good Afternoon!

This morning we began making music with the pianos and xylophones.  We listened  to the different sounds as we pressed the keys or tapped on the bar with our mallet.

Emily asked for a running song.  Miss Bekah thought of a song that has the running action in it called That’s The Way We Do It, by Greg and Steve.  We all loved acting out the variety of actions in the song.

Even though today was a bit chilly, we bundled up and headed outside.  We were busy in the rock area driving the construction trucks and filling them with rocks.  Some of us were busy digging in the sandbox.  Hannah filled her container and said “pat, pat” as she used the bottom of her shovel to flatten her sand in her container.  We also climbed up the rocks and went down the slide.

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Chex with fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey and butter, bananas, and corn.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds with whole grain Wheat Thins crackers.

Wee Sprout: Carrot Chips.

Have a terrific evening!

Rebekah

Link to pictures: 2023-03-09

Greetings!

We took our Kindergarten sign-in outside this morning. They each had a list of snakes found throughout the world. We took our tape measure to see how large they are in real life. We discovered that the Reticulated Python was the biggest coming in at 21 feet. The smallest was only 4 inches long. A few of the snakes were about the same size as Bo.

Today we created mixed media paintings.  One of our friends had the idea to draw something and then paint it so we turned it into an art project.  We learned that mixed media is when two or more materials are used to make a piece of art.  Many of us tried making artwork using markers and water color paint.  Another fun discovery was how to flick the paint using ones thumb against the bristles as a way to make a splash painting.  It was both an interesting effect and a technique that kept the paint within our own image and off of our neighbors. 

We also played candy shop with glass beads.  We organized our candies into jars based on color.  We got out some pretend money and interacted buying and selling our candy.  They were hot ticket items selling for up to 100 dollars a piece!

Breakfast: Oatmeal Squares & banana

Lunch: Brown rice w/ pork, pepper/carrot chips,  & cantaloupe

PM Snack: Wheat Thins & sunflower seeds

Wee Sprouts: Carrot chips & peppers

Link to pictures:  2023-03-09

Have a fantastic rest of your day,

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim

Good Afternoon!

Today we engaged in books and having Miss Bekah and Miss Tina both read to us throughout the morning.

Several of us then created our own unique outfits with dress-up clothes and accessories.  Paige shared she was dressing up in her Halloween costume.

Ben and Dax engaged with the shape stackers.

Arthur and Hannah were engaged building with the Duplos.

What a busy morning we had as we all engaged in a variety of activities all throughout the classroom.

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

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, fresh apple slices, sweet potatoes and whole grain wheat bread with butter.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat flatbread with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

Rebekah

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Hello!

Our Kindergarteners were asked to create a graph to see which snakes are poisonous, and which ones from the book were constrictors. In addition, they practiced their pattern skills using multicolored stickers on their snake printouts. For group, we continued our snake theme by reading about vipers.

 

Daniel wanted to draw outside, so we brought out our parachute for them to enjoy. We made small booklets with their names on it. Daniel was feeling very artistic, and asked Rowan to be his model to copy into his book. She struck a pose and he recreated what he saw.

This morning, we enjoyed a welcome activity building our own math equations using sparkly treasures. Each of us was able to work with numbers based on our abilities.  Our youngest friends counted treasures in their cups and found the corresponding numbers.  Some were able to count the total and with help create the addition problem with the wooden numbers.  Our oldest friends count do this themselves.  There were Kindergarteners who were able to create addition problems like 10+10=20 with out help. 

Our mathematically inclined young man Daniel was able to do a division problem.  I asked him if he took 20 treasures and divided them in half how many would he have.  He though a minute and said 10.

Hannah did a great job with her math equation but insisted that the equal sign should be parallel…giving us a wonderful opportunity to talk about what parallels lines are.

Based on some various interests, we introduced some books to support those interest areas.  There were books on the internal workings of ship, submarines and airports.  One book was about the universe with large color photographs of Nebulas, galaxies, and planets.  We went as far as to talk about Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, star clusters and Nebulas.  Some favorites were the Crab Nebula, the Cats Eye Nebula and the Horse Head Nebula .  We learned that a Nebula is beautiful and colorful space dust that will give birth to new stars.  Some friends were so excited that they brought the book to other friends to share what they learned!

Breakfast: Oatmeal & strawberries

Lunch: Hard-boiled eggs, bread slice, cucumbers/peppers, & pineapple/strawberries/oranges

PM Snack: Popcorn, raisins, & block cheese

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers

Link to pictures: 2023-03-08

Warmest Greetings To All,

Ms. Kim & Ms. Linsey