Good Afternoon!

**With the weather being iffy lately and sometimes unexpected, here’s the link to the delay/closing policy. When looking at closing and delays on the news, pay attention to SCHOOL CITY OF MISHAWAKA and SOUTH BEND SCHOOLS as these are the two that we focus on. If there is a delay or closing for either of these, please watch for a text to tell everyone if we’re regular open or delayed/closed due to weather. If you haven’t subscribed to the blast text from Tami, please do so. Feel free to ask if there are any questions. If we are delayed, Wee Wee Friends will open at 10:00. Thanks so much! (aren’t we all ready for spring?!)

https://weefriendskids.com/handbook-policies/

For lunch, friends had soy butter sandwiches, banana, and broccoli. PM snack was cheddar cheese and crackers.

Have a terrific evening!

The winter ice didn’t stop us from enjoying some time outside this morning!

We played house with many mommies, daddies, brothers, sisters and kitties.

We drove trucks over snowy sidewalks and icy ground.

We dug in the snow and hacked at the ice.

And we sold various flavors of hot chocolate from the brown house: watermelon, strawberry, and blueberry (YUM!)

Happy Thursday!

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Pea pods. Breakfast: None served today due to delay. Lunch: Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread, broccoli/tomatoes and bananas.  Snack: Peanuts and apple slices.

 

Hello!

A few friends requested paint today so we headed into the kitchen where we worked with an assortment of colors! There were a couple different strategies that children used:

Maya was very vertical today in her painting. Most of her lines went from the top of the page to the bottom. She then tried the ‘dotting’ technique where you ‘gently’ slam the paint brush onto the paper, making a specific mark.

Nahla worked on using the entire paper. She took her paint brush and made swirly marks in a big motion to cover most of her paper.

Tate and Rosemary were extremely sensorial during today’s painting activity. Rosemary took her paintbrush and painted her fingertips. She studied them really hard for a while and squished the paint in between her fingers. Tate took the blue paint and painted his hand. He put his hand onto the paper, transferring the paint! He pointed and said, “Hand!”

For breakfast, children had eggs and grapes. Lunch consisted of egg casserole with hash browns, oranges, and peas. PM snack was rice cakes with cream cheese.

Have a great night.

“What are you looking forward to?” This Many Days ‘Til Chain Links creations.

“Fill the cup with as many pattern blocks as the number on the die!” Visual/Audio counting.

“Slowly, Slowly” by Hap Palmer. Wait, wait, GO……… FASTER, FASTER, FASTER! Techniques in impulse control with TONS OF MUSIC FUN!

“Can we play the freeze game….with Frozen?”

Busy, wonderful morning. –Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Rice cakes with peanut butter and grapes. Lunch: egg casserole, whole wheat tortillas, orange slices, and cauliflower.  Snack: Hummus and pretzels.

Good Afternoon!

For breakfast, children had Kashi and oranges. Lunch consisted of cream cheese and ham on tortillas, peppers and cucumbers, and grapes. PM snack was pretzels and raisins.

Have a terrific evening.

“If I have two books and a add one more, what number do I have?”

“If you have three cups of hot chocolate and you spill one, how many do you have left?”

“Find number three!”

“Where is number 10? Hop to it!”

These are a few of the questions Jessica asked friends of different ages after she created first, a number grid, then a number circle.

In other parts of the classroom, it was game after game after game. Counting, rolling, balancing and spinning.

Old Play-Do was added to a pony habitat. It became the soil system for trees. And the stem of of a rose.

 

Have a great day. – Laurie

Wee Sprouts: PPC Sweet Peppers. Breakfast: Kix and blackberries. Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with ham and cream cheese, cucumbers and apple slices. Snack: Cheese sticks and crackers.

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Anna enjoys standing, holding on to anything she can! She had a blast looking at the fish swim inside the fish tank.

Friends requested the waffle blocks this morning. We’re continuing to work on colors. We’ll use toys and activities throughout the environment, such as the waffle blocks.

Here are some AWESOME happy faces to end your day!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and oranges. Lunch consisted of whole wheat noodles with black beans, apples, and corn. PM snack was yogurt and crackers.

Have a great night!

Today we welcome Kara Runeman to our classroom! Kara, Director of Starz Academy and IUSB Elementary Education Senior will be with us for the next six weeks on Monday and Friday mornings! We are glad you are here!

Sometimes when a Wee Friend request Frozen, the teachers freeze. We thaw out in time to support their passion and press play. Today, the Disney phenomena provided us an awesome learning opportunity: two friends, two Elsa dresses. Dresses that were the same but very different. In the midst of the many morning activities, we stopped and compared/contrasted the dresses.  We studied and shared excitement about the dresses’  differences and similarities.

Enjoy your day. –Laurie

Wee Sprouts: PPC carrots.

Breakfast: Bagel with butter and apple slices.

Lunch: whole wheat pasta with black beans and butter, fresh sliced apples, pears and oranges, and corn

Snack: whole milk yogurt and fresh Purple Porch blackberries. Yum!

Happy Friday!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and banana. Lunch consisted of hummus on tortillas, blueberries, and broccoli. PM snack was pretzels and raisins.

Hope everyone is able to get well and catch up on sleep this weekend!

Have a restful weekend.

Today has been a busy day full of building houses, Frozen songs, creating Elsa-style capes and more. Yet in the midst of all this joy-filled (and noise-filled) activity, when something catches our attention, we put all of our focus into it.

We concentrate as we sort jewels.

 

We give our full attention to figuring out puzzles.

    

We’re engrossed in creating with Magna Tiles.

    

We focus on parking cars and trucks.

May your day be filled with peaceful moments of concentration too.

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Breakfast: Puffins cereal and pears.

Lunch: Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh cherry tomatoes/broccoli  and orange slices and bananas.

Snack:  Mozzarella cheese sticks and Triscuits.