Good Afternoon!

**Attached at the bottom is the link for yesterday’s pictures.

**As most of you know, we have an icky cold/cough/fever bug going around. We’re doing a vigilant effort of cleaning and sanitizing around the classroom. As a reminder, here is our illness policy: https://www.weefriendskids.com/handbook-policies/

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This week, we’ve been talking about the differences between a globe and a map as well as identifying the different things we see on each. Children took blue and green tissue paper squares to create their own globe. We talked about how the blue on the globe represents water and the green represents land. Maddie commented, “I’m going to make my globe have water on the outside and land on the inside.”

Social Studies: K.3.2: Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.

After Maddie and Lulu made their globe at the art table, they tackled the new globe puzzle that we got. This puzzle is a little different than the ones we have because the inside pieces are not like normal puzzle pieces. It provides a great challenge!

A few children requested the light table this morning. We explored various items including rocks, shells, and gems. Lucy and Anna sorted them by different characteristics before Anna announced, “Now we’re going to make a pattern!”

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat bread, banana/PPC pears, and PPC cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Hummus with blue corn chips.

Wee Sprout– PPC cherry tomatoes.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/6

Link to pictures from 12/5 (yesterday): WF 12/5

Good Afternoon!

The application that creates the photo link was not working this afternoon.  I’ll try to post the photo album tomorrow!

This morning we all spent some time looking at our books.

While Sophia was visiting the other classroom, Mack was the only child awake. So he requested puzzles and play dough. He worked on his fine motor skills with both activities putting his pieces into his puzzle board and placing the golf tees into his play dough.

Aggie and Daniel enjoying talking on their telephones to their mommy and daddy.

Emma and Mack pulled out the star rainbows. Emma was using hers as a teeter totter and Mack was being a gymnast while singing the Happy Birthday song.

Breakfast:  Kashi’s Blueberry Clusters cereal and clementines.

Lunch:  Turkey and cheese on whole grain wheat tortillas, PPC blueberries and peas/PPC cherry tomatoes.

Afternoon Snack:  Mini blueberry muffin and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a great evening!

Rebekah

Good Afternoon!

*The application that creates the photo link wasn’t working this afternoon. I’ll try to post the photo album tomorrow!

A poinsettia was used for a still-life drawing at the art table this morning. Children had the choice to use various mediums including crayons, colored pencils, and water color. We used red, green, and brown to express our view of the poinsettia.

As children were drawing or painting the plant, we used our nose to smell it and our fingers to touch it. A six year old friend commented, “I’m drawing this abstract.”

The rest of our day consisted with various engaging activities including habitrail creations and pattern blocks.

Breakfast– Corn squares and PPC blueberries.

Lunch– Turkey and shredded cheese on whole wheat tortillas, banana/apples, and PPC snap peas/carrots.

PM snack– A birthday treat for our newly six year old friend: fruit kabobs and peanuts.

Wee Sprout– PPC cucumber.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Now that we are in the month of December, just a friendly reminder that we will be closed Monday, December 25- Friday, January 5, 2018 for our Winter break. We will return Monday, January 8, 2018. Thank you!

We hope you had a great Monday. Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Toasted whole grain cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and PPC banana.

Lunch:  Homemade whole grain wheat macaroni and cheese (made by Miss Kim), PPC banana and carrots.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh apples.

Wee Sprouts:  Corn.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliaR3saTyhF77hipVsA

Good Afternoon!

Miss Melinda and a group of children interacted with a ‘season’ game this morning where we had to decided if an item went in the ‘spring’, ‘summer’, ‘fall’, or ‘winter’ box. When a turkey came up, one of our two year old friends said, “I go to the barn to see them!”

Several art materials were made available at the art table this morning including feathers, colored wooden sticks, cardboard tubes, and a seasonal item: wrapping paper! At first, children used the wrapping paper to create a collage but after a while, friends started to incorporate various other materials into their projects.

Maxwell and Grady used toy cars as a manipulative to solve addition and subtraction problems.

M: “Grady, here are the cars. I’m going to take one away. How many are there?”

(Grady counts using his one to one correspondence skills): “There’s seven!”

M: “Okay, now I’m going to take another one away. How many do I have left?”

(Grady counts) “Now, there’s six left!”

We took advantage of the nice morning and headed outside where we patiently waited for the bikes to be made available. It was a great activity for us to get out some energy and work on our ever growing gross motor skills.

Breakfast– Toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Homemade macaroni and cheese, PPC pears, and PPC snap peas/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with PPC oranges.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/4

Good Afternoon!

Emma and Sophia were building with the magnatiles. It started out as a small structure and they kept adding more and more to it until it was a large structure. They then added snowballs and babies inside of it.

Today we were excited about our art activity. We painted glitter glue onto paper plates with our paint brushes to have a snowflake affect. We have them hanging up for everyone to see in the classroom!

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We all enjoyed going up or down the slide by our self or with a group of friends in a variety of different ways.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh blueberries.

Lunch:  Hummus on whole grain wheat flatbread, banana and corn.

Afternoon Snack:  Mini blueberry muffins and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprouts:  Corn.

Have a great weekend!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliaNdaUupyfmcZE-dFw

**IUSB’s ‘Teddy Bear Concert’ is coming up! The concert is featuring the IUSB’s dance troop, student choirs, the South Bend Symphonic Choir (which is the choir in residence) and the Christmas Carolers which feature our very own Maddie and Lulu!

Details: Friday, December 8th at 7 pm at IUSB’s Northside Auditorium.

IF YOU BRING A NEW TEDDY BEAR, YOU GET IN FREE OF CHARGE!

If you have any questions, please refer to the poster posted by the cubbies at Wee Friends.

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Maddie and Lulu explored our new globe this morning. We’re gearing up for our new FAB starting on Monday that focuses on globes and maps. Lulu travels to Germany quite frequently so we looked at the distance between South Bend, Indiana and Germany. Maddie asked to find Montana and St. Louis, two places that she’s familiar with. Maddie also asked to find..Madagascar! We found it .

Miss Kim taught us a new trick with the old, dried out markers. We took cups of water and dipped the tip of the marker into the water. The marker color was then transferred to the paper! Children used paper flowers to create with, cut, and explore.

Maxwell found out that three is better than one when transferring a bucket FULL of rocks.

“We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.”

Breakfast- Rice cakes with peanut butter and PPC pears.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, PPC apples, and fresh carrots/snap peas.

PM snack– Pretzels with string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a fantastic weekend!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/1

Can’t believe it is the last day of November!

Today we used the table as a prop while we played with our babies. We crawled under and put the blanket over it as if it was the covers for our bed.

A friend requested play dough as our sensory activity. We used our fine motor skills to place golf tees into our play dough after pounding it out with a wooden hammer or rolling it out with a rolling pin.

Miss Marty styled our hair. Emma and Sophia each had 3 pony tails while Mack had a nice comb over.

Our 2 friends that were awake were busy in the habitrail. They climbed up onto the habitrail together, rolled the balls and took the dancing scarves out of the box and shook them.

Breakfast:  Kashi’s Blueberry Clusters cereal and fresh blueberries.

Lunch:  Whole grain brown rice with chicken, clementines and peas/fresh cherry tomatoes.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with sunflower butter.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliaJFP4RXl2duUptkaA

Good Afternoon!

***Please make sure that your child is coming to Wee Friends with a winter coat along with a hat and gloves if needed. We try to go outside as much as we possibly can and we want them comfortable! –thanks!

Here are a few pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and PPC apples.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken and cheese, PPC pears and clementines, and PPC cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Cinnamon raisin bagel with

Wee Sprout– PPC cherry tomatoes/cucumber.

Have a fantastic night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/30

Good Afternoon!

This morning we played peek-a- boo with the big pillow or corner of the wall.

We brought up some small board books for the babies, a few Five Little Monkey stories and Christmas books to get us into the holiday spirit.

Sophia and Emma worked together building with the magnatiles. They both said, “this is a bed.” They then went over and got a baby. The baby fit perfectly. They then added more magnatiles on top for a blanket to cover their baby.

We then headed outside to enjoy some fresh air and our favorite activities with each other or a friend from the other classroom.

Breakfast:  Kix cereal and apples.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat bread, blueberries and peas.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain wheat crackers with hummus.

Wee Sprouts:  Peas.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to pictures:  https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliaFMG0h4oxWRvq06cA