A child’s smile is the BEST smile!
Breakfast was Cheerios and oranges. Wee sprout was fresh tomatoes. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs with whole wheat flatbread, grapes, and fresh tomatoes. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers and string cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNZBEDtN9FdySPnjgA
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
In kindergarten today, we played a bingo game that focused on community helpers. Lulu, Lucy, and Maddie each picked a board and teamed up with a younger friend to complete their board. I read a clue and children would look on their board to see if they had that community helper. Even if friends weren’t involved in the game physically, they were still using their listening ears throughout the house and would shout out the answer!
One of the clues read ‘I am a helper of the United States of America. I protect our freedom of our country. Who am I?’ We talked about the word soldier and what it meant. I showed them a picture of my step brother who is deployed in the Army. Lulu commented, “Wow. What does he do?” We had a conversation about the different things that soldiers can do to protect every day. A few other community helpers that we didn’t have any background knowledge on were janitor, lifeguard, and detective.
After playing multiple times, we talked about what it’d be like to be a dentist, astronaut, doctor, etc. We have a few dentists and astronauts on our hands 
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Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.
We tied this in to large group after read, ‘Franklin’s Neighborhood’. A web was created that displayed the different community helpers that we learned about earlier in the day.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and PPC blueberries/banana.
Lunch– Cheesy scrambled egg roll-ups in whole wheat flatbread, oranges/grapes, and PPC green beans.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and PPC blueberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a great night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/30
Good Afternoon!
**Wee Friends will be closed Monday, September 4th in observance of Labor Day. Thanks!
In large group, we read a story titled, ‘Tuckers Best School Day’. In the story, we learned about Tucker’s school and a few specific rules and procedures that Tucker and his friends follow. After the story was done, we came up with our own list of school rules that we try our best to follow here at Wee Friends. After we filled the chalkboard up with ideas, friends talked about why these rules are important. Lulu shared, “If kids open the door, our little friends could get out of the school and run away!” A couple friends also shared that the rules are intended to “keep us safe”.
Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.
We used our hands and eyes to work on our hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills using our puzzles. We used our eyes to look where the piece fits into the puzzles and our hands to connect those pieces together and place them into the correct spot in the puzzles we were doing.
It was a day for building! Max built an airplane with the wood at the workbench, while Lulu and Grady built a ramp for their cars using the wood blocks in habitrail.
When it was time to go outside, we enjoyed many of our favorite activities.
Breakfast: Kix cereal, PPC grapes and blackberries.
Lunch: Refried beans and cheese on whole grain wheat flatbread, cherry tomatoes from the garden/PPC peppers and plums.
Afternoon Snack:Whole grain Wheat Thins crackers and peanuts.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh peppers.
Have a great night!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNU8lA_XIhI8XwNB1Q
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast was Kix and oranges. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with refried beans and cheese, grapes, and peas. Afternoon snack was graham crackers and cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNV57pv_gauw6q-tCg
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
Fall farm time has come around again!
FARM GROUPS–
FARM GROUP A: Riley, Maddie, Lulu, Lucy, Max
FARM GROUP B: Grady, Anna, Brycen, David, Nina, Elijah
FARM GROUP A We will try to go once a week (weather and farm permitting); our goal is Monday mornings but our fall back day will be Thursday. As of right now, our first farm trip will be Monday, September 11th.
FARM GROUP B will go one time this season. Right now, we’re planning on Monday, September 25th. If this changes, we’ll let you know!
**Forrest, Chloe, Ruby, Emma, and Franklin will need to be driven/chaperoned by a parent if you wish for them to go with FARM GROUP B on their trip on Monday, September 25th.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!
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Our FAB’s for the upcoming week are:
Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.
Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.
In large group, we read two stories that focused of a specific community helper: firefighter! We learned that firefighters live at the fire station when they’re working. Several items that firefighters wear were also layed out in the story. There isn’t just one type of firetruck; there are several, including the pumper truck! The following questions was presented:
“If we didn’t have firefighters to help us, what would happen?”
-“Stuff would burn and people may die!”
We talked about how important firefighters are to our community and how dangerous their job can be.
Children were invited to the art table this morning to paint with a vegetable that we picked from our garden; an overgrown zucchini! Miss Melinda cut the zucchini into circles and friends picked the color of paint they wanted to paint with!
We came up with a list of other materials we can paint with besides paint brushes. Friends shouted out ‘sponge’ and ‘hands’ to name a few.
Maddie focused on pattern blocks this morning. She picked several pattern cards and completed the pattern using colored blocks. These pattern blocks are quite tricky as the blocks have to be put in a certain way! Maddie shouted, “I did it! I think I’ll do another one!”
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and PPC grapes.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with kidney beans, PPC pears/blackberries, and fresh carrots/snap peas.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with banana/blackberries.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a great night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/28
Mack, Sophia, and Emma spent most of their inside time this morning taking care of baby dolls. They each found a blanket for their babies to wrap them up with. They all rocked, carried, and burped their baby dolls. Emma said her baby was sad and gave her a big hug. The girls also set up a diaper changing station and worked hard at getting the diapers on their dolls.
Breakfast was Cheerios and banana. Wee sprout was mixed veggies. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with red beans, oranges, and corn. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and banana.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNQWK800o0bfMk8yrQ
Have a good night!
Amanda
Happy Friday!
This morning, Maddie and Lulu took several magazines and looked through them. Using scissors, they cut out any face that they saw. After getting a good collection of faces, they took glue and made a collage. They engaged in a collaboration by creating a collage together and talking about the faces they were cutting out.
In large group, we looked at the collage that Maddie and Lulu made. We talked about the faces and discussed what we saw that was similar and different. To go along with this, we read two books; ‘Little Blue and Little Yellow’ and ‘Whistle for Willie’.
“They have different color faces but they’re all the same; people!”
Social Studies: K.3.6 Identify and compare similarities and differences in families, classmates, neighbors and neighborhoods, and ethnic and cultural groups.
We had a great Friday! We hope you did too.
Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and PPC pears.
Lunch– Shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, banana/pear, and mixed vegetables.
PM snack– Pretzels and block cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a terrific weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/25
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast was Kix and banana. Wee sprout was carrots. Lunch consisted of whole wheat flatbread with cheese, oranges, and carrots. Afternoon snack was cheese crackers and string cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNJ8WFXP7qNUyLCN3A
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
One of the most meaningful activities that children partake in is journaling. Large group journals daily; small group children can journal whenever they’d like but have no set time to journal.
Our large group consists of four and five year olds. All five of our friends are at different stages in their language development. A few children are working on the formation of letters and matching the letter with a sound (mostly consonants). When they hear the sounds, a teacher dictates what they’re saying. A couple of our older friends are kid spelling which means that they’re hearing sounds in given words and writing what they hear. For instance, ‘friend’ may look like ‘frnd’. MOST children hear consonants first before hearing any vowels. This is completely normal and an important part of development! We are always excited to have a time to draw what’s in our heads or just something we’re thinking about. Putting words to our pictures makes it that much more meaningful. OUR WORDS MATTER.
The following attachment goes into the specific of handwriting and the various stages that children go through!
http://www.mecfny.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/StagesofWritinghandout.pdf
The rest of our morning focused around ourselves; drawing our portraits and coloring our hands that we made yesterday.
A song comes to mind; ‘The itsy bitsy spider…’
Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and banana.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, corn on the cob from PPC, and PPC grapes/banana.
PM snack– Wheat thins and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumbers.
Have a great evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/24
Our friends enjoyed their time in the sandbox this morning. Mack and Rose played with the trucks and shovels, and Sophia and Emma took turns jumping from the tree stumps.
Miss Rebekah started a game of ring around the Rosie with the big kids, who very nicely let Sophia and Emma join in.
Mack climbed the log house multiple times. Each time he reached the top, he proudly said, “I did it!”
Breakfast was toast with sweet pea butter and strawberries. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with chicken, grapes, and peas. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with cream cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliNJCmc4jwT8A25xsQQ
Have a good night!
Amanda