Hello, everyone!
Enjoy some of our favorite photos taken throughout the day!
Breakfast was Kix cereal with bananas. Lunch consisted of rice with cheese, pears, and corn. Afternoon snack was mozzarella string cheese with kiwi, bananas, and pears.
Have a great weekend! We’ll see you Monday.
Amanda
This morning we traveled to Springhope Farm to pick apples. Enjoy these pictures from our trip!
Our first stop was to watch the apple cleaning machine in action. The little apples get sorted from the big ones, are polished and then dried.
Next, each friend got an apple picking bag of their very own.
We saw a tractor in the barn and then got to ride on another one out to the apple trees.
It was a fun ride on the big tractor!
We heard about all the different apple varieties and then got to picking.
We filled our bags to the brim!
Look at all them apples!
We were glad so many parents and grandparents were able to join us!
Enjoy the apples and have a great weekend! –Jessica
Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter, hard boiled eggs and bananas. Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with quinoa and chicken, carrots and fresh pears. Snack: Honey crisp apples fresh from the orchard with a peanut butter/organic whole milk yogurt dipping sauce!
Franklin worked on his hand-eye coordination by playing with one of the object permanence boxes!
Anna has been all about baby dolls this week! Outside or inside, they’re her go to toy.
Rosemary was a great helper when she picked out story books for her friends to enjoy.
Breakfast was Kashi’s Blueberry Clusters cereal with pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with black beans and cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was graham crackers with hardboiled eggs.
Have a good evening!
Amanda
Happy 1st Day of October!
This morning started off with a group meeting to predict what was in this large package that arrived at Wee Friends. After some interesting ideas, ranging from “bananas” to “bricks,” we discovered it was a pump for our bicycles!
We took turns pumping air and feeling it on our hands:
Afterwards, we had another community matter to discuss: what to do with our pumpkins?! The teachers narrowed down our ideas from yesterday to three options we could vote on: Carve It, Pound It, and Bake Seeds. After some time to think, friends came up to graph their vote.
In the end we decided we could do all three options, pound one pumpkin and then carve and bake the seeds of the other pumpkin. As one friend pointed out, in order to bake the seeds, we’d have to cut it anyways! Because pounding the pumpkin got the most votes (eight) we started with that work.
We love choosing where to hammer in our golf tees!
Outside, the fallen leaves have proven to be very interesting to the Wee Frienders! Filling trucks with leaves, making leaf piles and sweeping leaves have been popular choices this week.
Kindergarten: Today Elizabeth and Elliott were introduced to the symbols for “less than” and “greater than” through a game involving an alligator/shark. Although learning about these symbols were not specifically mentioned in this week’s math FAB, the kindergarteners have been doing so well identifying greater than and less than values Jessica wanted to give them a challenge.
Have a wonderful afternoon on this sunny day! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Red and green bell peppers. Breakfast: Whole Grain Cheerios and fresh strawberries. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with turkey lunch meat and fresh cauliflower and grapes. Snack: Snap pea crisps and peanuts.
What a beautiful day to be outside!
Our friends are especially loving all the fallen leaves available to play with!
Breakfast was whole grain oatmeal with bananas. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs with whole wheat flat bread, strawberries, and cucumbers. Afternoon snack was hummus and wheat crackers.
Have a great night!
Amanda
Hello! While the older children were at the farm, the other Wee Friends had a great morning. It started with an exploration of our stencil collection.
Friends chose a stencil that interested them and used it in the way they saw fit. Some friends put their stencil under their paper and drew on top, while others drew inside the stencil. Other friends chose to color without stencils and some used them to make specific shapes in their drawings. Each friend worked the way they wanted to and were peacefully engaged in their creations.
After our inside work, we had SO much energy to expend outside. We definitely used our voices and lungs to their full capacity this morning! These three friends had a dance/singing party as they jumped and twirled to songs of their choosing, such as “ABC,” “This Old Man” and “Twinkle, Twinkle.”
Later, friends pretended to be lions and crawled/roared their way across the yard.
Kindergarten: Today the kindergarteners spent some time outside on the bridge, reading Mirette on the High Wire. After reading this exciting story about a girl who meets a famous high-wire walker and learns to wire walk, we had a discussion about the story and its characters and setting [working on literacy FAB K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings or events)]. We decided that it would be very scary to walk across a high wire!
Later this afternoon, we held a pumpkin meeting! Ms.Tami bought our classroom two BIG pumpkins, so Ms. Melinda led a discussion about what we should do with them.
Each friend had a chance to share and we came up with some pretty great ideas:
Have a wonderful Wednesday!–Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Hot wheat cereal and red grapes. Lunch: Farm fresh eggs with cheddar cheese wrapped in whole wheat flat bread, cucumbers and fresh strawberries. Snack: Refried beans and blue corn chips.
Hello! While the older children were at the farm, the other Wee Friends had a great morning. It started with an exploration of our stencil collection.
Friends chose a stencil that interested them and used it in the way they saw fit. Some friends put their stencil under their paper and drew on top, while others drew inside the stencil. Other friends chose to color without stencils and some used them to make specific shapes in their drawings. Each friend worked the way they wanted to and were peacefully engaged in their creations.
After our inside work, we had SO much energy to expend outside. We definitely used our voices and lungs to their full capacity this morning! These three friends had a dance/singing party as they jumped and twirled to songs of their choosing, such as “ABC,” “This Old Man” and “Twinkle, Twinkle.”
Later, friends pretended to be lions and crawled/roared their way across the yard.
Kindergarten: Today the kindergarteners spent some time outside on the bridge, reading Mirette on the High Wire. After reading this exciting story about a girl who meets a famous high-wire walker and learns to wire walk, we had a discussion about the story and its characters and setting [working on literacy FAB K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings or events)]. We decided that it would be very scary to walk across a high wire!
Later this afternoon, we held a pumpkin meeting! Ms.Tami bought our classroom two BIG pumpkins, so Ms. Melinda led a discussion about what we should do with them.
Each friend had a chance to share and we came up with some pretty great ideas:
Have a wonderful Wednesday!–Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Hot wheat cereal and red grapes. Lunch: Farm fresh eggs with cheddar cheese wrapped in whole wheat flat bread, cucumbers and fresh strawberries. Snack: Refried beans and blue corn chips.
Good Afternoon!
It was a BEAUTIFUL day for our farm trip!
When we first got to the farm, we noticed baby goats! We were able to go into the fenced in area and interact with them.
Friends gathered grass to feed to the goats. We found out that they like grass AND dandelions!
We were able to lend a hand to Miss Charlotte today! The first item on the list was to line the green house floor with cardboard and newspaper. The goal was to kill off all of the weeds that had grown within the greenhouse. Friends got in a line and worked together to carry the hose over towards the greenhouse.
We all took turns spraying down the greenhouse. Friends made sure they got the corners and sides of the ground.
Next, we had to tear down cardboard boxes to make sure they were completely flat. Once the boxes were flat, friends laid them down. Throughout this activity, friends were extremely vocal with one another. Language such as, “We should lay it here”, or “This area needs covered!” occurred between friends.
Finally, we had the entire ground covered. Our next step: getting the ground wet!
After our greenhouse project was complete, there was a pile of goodies that Miss Charlotte asked us to take down to the red barn. We were all super eager to pitch in and do our share of work.
A few of us spotted a “ big tractor” as someone called it. The farmer was nice enough to answer some of our questions. First off, it’s called an ‘excavator’. Secondly, it takes a LOT of gas to operate this machine. We watched as gas was poured into the excavator. We discussed how its extremely important to stay a ways back from big machines like this one. Safety first!
Miss Charlotte gave us a bucket of apples to feed to the pigs. Each child got an apple to give to the pigs. BOY, were they hungry 
.
To end our morning, we took a small walk admiring the nature around us. We stopped and looked at milkweed as well as a flower bush that had A LOT of bees!
It was truly a GREAT morning! We achieved a great amount within the time that we were at the farm.
Our friends found chalk outside while playing this morning. They drew colorful pictures together on the sidewalk!
Then this afternoon, David did a puzzle and Anna and Rosemary wrote in their journals.
Emma and David played with the object permanence boxes together. Emma used the coins and David used the balls.
Breakfast was Chex cereal and pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with cheddar cheese, grapes, and cucumbers. Afternoon snack was brown rice cakes with sweet pea butter.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Announcements:
*Group A [Elizabeth, Elliott, Emerson, Daniel, Jackson, Clara, Addi, Eren] will be going to the farm tomorrow—Wednesday, September 30th.
*This Friday, October 2nd we will be taking a field trip to the apple orchard at Springhope Farm [18720 Cleveland Ave Galien MI 49113].
Thank you and let us know if you have any questions!
This morning friends continued work on one of our math FABs for this week, which involves dividing objects into equal groups. Concepts like these can be directly taught during group time, or brought up during the course of the day individually/in small groups. Miss Melinda used a friend asking to get out the play dough as an opportunity to teach about dividing into groups.
Friends were challenged to divide up the big bin of play dough equally among 6 trays!
While the swimmers were at swimming lessons today, we decided to tackle a big project up in the science area: reattaching the back of the bookshelf! Friends were a great help taking everything off of the shelf, working together to carry the big items.
Once everything was off the shelf we examined the gap, pulled the shelf back from the wall and discovered a treasure trove of lost items.
After some vacuuming and hammering, the science bookshelf was back in business and will soon be filled with some reorganized books and materials.
Have a great day! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Cucumber. Breakfast: Corn Chex and kiwi. Lunch: Whole wheat bread with hummus, tomatoes and fresh apples. Snack: Homemade blueberry bread in honor of Emerson’s birthday yesterday with colby jack cheese slices.
