Good Afternoon!
Here are a few pictures from our day!
“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding.”
-Robert John Meehan
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal and PPC kiwi.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat tortilla, PPC pears, and fresh carrots.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn and PPC banana.
Wee Sprout– PPC cherry tomatoes/snap peas.
Have a lovely night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 1/24
ANNOUNCEMENT. Due to the increase of children bringing toys from home to school, the teachers ask for you to have your child leave those toys at home or in the car. It causes too many problems in the classroom. Thank you.
Good Afternoon!
We enjoyed picking up and tossing the bean bags into the big block.
This morning we painted with a loofa using the primary colors. The children enjoyed mixing the colors together to make orange, purple and green. After a while we started to use our fingers to spread our paint around on our papers.
We all enjoyed building or playing with the magnatiles within our own skill level.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and PPC banana.
Lunch: Shredded Cheese quesadillas on whole grain wheat flatbread, PPC kiwi and corn.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts: Corn.
Have a great night!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulibt4CA-FfBSgQTCluw
Good Afternoon!
**Housekeeping request: We’ve been having several children bring in toys from home. This is causing problems from time to time so we’re asking that you have your child leave their toys in the car. Wee Friends offers interactive, engaging, and developmentally appropriate toys for our students to utilize while they’re here. We would greatly appreciate your help with this!
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It was a BIG day for our kindergarteners. When Maddie signed into her kindergarten sign in binder, she read the words that I had written which prompted me to get out our BOB books. Shortly after breakfast, her interest peaked which lead to reading the first four BOB books! Not only was she excited and proud of herself, but younger peers watched as she navigated several BOB books.
Another kindergartener is fascinated with dinosaurs and often integrates them into his journaling. Today, he memorized how to spell ‘Psittacosaurus’ which is one of his favorite dinosaurs. His face beamed as he commented, “I didn’t even need to look how to spell it—I remembered!”
Children will learn to read and write when they are ready. What can we do until they are ready?: Support, encourage, nurture, and love them while they come upon these big ‘life’ milestones.
Lucy and Ruby explored a ‘shape matching’ activity at the island this morning. As they matched the shape, we talked about the characteristics of each shape.
K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.
“Learning is not a race for information, it’s a walk of discovery.”
Breakfast– Kix and PPC kiwi.
Lunch– Shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, PPC banana, and PPC cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat english muffin with peanut butter and mozzarella cheese stick.
Wee Sprout– PPC snap peas/cherry tomatoes.
Have a fantastic evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF, 1/23
Good Afternoon!
This morning we were busy in the kitchen finger painting! We were given the opportunity to help choose the colors we would like to use. We enjoyed making lines in the paint with our fingers and mixing new colors together.
We were all about our books today. We enjoyed having many stories read to us.
We were all very busy through out our day in the habitrail area using many of our favorite activities.
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat English muffin with cream cheese and clementines.
Lunch: Whole grain wheat pasta with chicken, fresh PPC kiwi and broccoli.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat crackers and colby jack block cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Corn.
Have a wonderful evening!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulibs1s_YMAIoLDpQk9g
Good Afternoon!
We have a student from Ivy Tech who is doing her practicum with us this semester. Miss Katie will be here until the beginning of May!
Max, Lucy, and Anna explored the use of their fine motor skills this morning as they took a wet cotton swab to essentially erase all of the uppercase letters that were written on the chalkboard. Several skills were being used here including fine motor skills, letter recognition, and communication. Lucy, who is an older preschooler, helped Max and Anna when they were unsure of a letter.
K.W.2.1: Write most uppercase and lowercase of the alphabet, correctly shaping and spacing.
In large group, we read ‘Dinosaur Alphabet Book’. We picked out several words in the story and as a group, we came up with many rhyming words. There were actual words and then a few nonsensical words thrown in there too! Anna said, “I feel like volcano and fire rhyme a little bit.” As a group, we talked about what rhyming words are and what they sound like.
K.RF.3.1: Identify and produce rhyming words.
The rest of our morning look a little something like this–
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and PPC clementines.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and shredded chicken, PPC kiwi/clementines, and PPC cherry tomatoes.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprouts– PPC snap peas/cherry tomatoes.
Have a great evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF, 1/22
Happy Friday!
In large group, we read ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ which lead us to count the syllables in each of the animals that were a main focus in the story. When we were almost done, a kindergartener said, “Hey! There are three animals so far that have two syllables!”. Hippopotamus was a challenging word for our friends as we really had to focus to find all five syllables in the word.
K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.
Our ‘Music Garden’ class started this morning lead by Miss Melinda! It’s a fifteen week class that eight of our children are apart of. The fifteen week class will focus on all aspects of music.
While the Music Garden class was going on, the rest of our friends occupied themselves with various activities.
Anna and Maddie matched uppercase letters to lowercase letters using the cardboard box activity. Afterwards, they worked together to find the syllables in several words using clip cards. Anna was having difficulty with the three syllable words so Maddie helped her by showing her how she counts syllables.
K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.
The art table was also transformed into a play dough exploration center this morning where things from poisonous worms to hot dogs were created.
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
-Albert Einstein
Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and PPC kiwi.
Lunch– Turkey or ham on whole wheat bread, PPC banana, and PPC broccoli.
PM snack– Mozzarella string cheese with goldfish.
Wee Sprout– PPC broccoli.
Have a fantastic weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 1/19
Good Afternoon!
Today, we started our morning by looking at a book or building with the magnatiles with a friend.
Emma and Mack said, “ta da” as they each proudly stood tall on top of their blocks.
We enjoyed working on our fine motor skills as we drew with our markers. Emma and Mack went another step further by adding science as they each painted over their marker drawings with water to see what happened! They found out that their colors bled out on their papers.
Breakfast: Toasted whole grain wheat bread with sunflower butter and fresh PPC banana.
Lunch: Grilled turkey and cheese on whole grain wheat bread, fresh cherry tomatoes, banana and broccoli.
Afternoon Snack: Goldfish crackers and mild cheddar block cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Broccoli.
We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliboH-67EG9EaUK23HQ
Good Afternoon! We hope you enjoy some of the pictures from our day.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh PPC banana.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with turkey, banana and corn.
Afternoon Snack: Graham crackers, mozzarella cheese stick and banana.
Wee Sprouts: Corn.
Have a wonderful night!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliblLIQGEAVQKPcvsgQ
Good Afternoon!
The circle table was full of different counting manipulatives this morning. Chloe took the people counters and lined them up in a straight line while counting them with her index finger while Lucy specifically used the bears. She counted them as well while incorporating her own A-B-A-B pattern.
K.NS.4: Perform one to one correspondence tasks.
Lucy extended her patterns into four rows while focusing on different colored bears to complete her pattern.
We explored various wonders throughout the environment.
A three year old child used the light coming in from the back door to make various hand puppets on the refrigerator door. He moved his fingers and hand various ways to see how the reflection would change on the refrigerator.
Grady and Max noticed that when they moved the sensory pillow that we have in the habitrail loft, the sequins made shiny lights throughout the environment. They each took turns moving the pillow around to see where the lights were going to show up.
Today, it was the 48 piece puzzles that challenged us. A couple of our friends are transitioning from 24 piece puzzle to ones that challenge us a little bit more!
Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and PPC kiwi.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, PPC banana/clementines, and PPC green beans.
PM snack– Triscuits and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprout– PPC red pepper and green beans.
Have a fantastic evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 1/18
**First reminder: Wee Friends will be closed on Friday, February 16th for conferences. We will be sending out pre-conference forms in the next couple of weeks so that we can get the schedule set! Thanks!
Good Afternoon!
Our friends started the morning off making their own music on the xylophone. They enjoyed tapping the different keys with the mallet and hearing the different sounds of the keys.
We brought some snow inside for a sensory activity. The friends were given different size scoops to use in their snow. Aggie brought a ball in to roll around in hers.
Emma and Mack helped Miss Marty get our painting activity ready. Miss Marty also turned it into a science experience. She added white paint to the colors, then asked the question, did it turn light or dark? Emma said, “light.”
To get ready for Valentine’s day we painted some small and large hearts using red, pink and light and dark purple paint. We all used a variety of colors and they turned out beautiful. You can find them hanging up in our classroom bamboo boards.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh PPC banana.
Lunch: Scrambled eggs, whole grain wheat bread, banana and carrots.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat crackers and hummus.
Wee Sprouts: Carrots.
Hope you had a great Wednesday!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulibgp9WZ8bPcBKDxaLw