Happy Monday and Happy JUNE!!! WOW!!!

We would like to welcome Millie to the classroom today.  We are so happy to have Millie and her family now apart of the Wee Wee Friends family!  

Millie turned two in March, she will be a great addition to our little Wee Wee’s!

This morning we were all excited to engage in coloring with crayons and markers. This is a  fine motor, color recognition and hand-eye coordination activity.

Miss Rebekah gave us brand new markers so the colors were bold and vibrant on our papers! We LOVED it!

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with butter and banana.

Lunch: Whole wheat bow-tie pasta with shredded beef, corn and banana and pineapple.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a fabulous night!

Marty

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Welcome to June!

**We are planning a special art experience that requires each child to have a plain white shirt—we wanted to give each family enough time so we’re asking that each child have their shirt here by June 15. If you have any questions, please let us know!

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In K/PREK1, we started a longer chapter book today: Charlotte’s Web! Penny, Grady, and David are ending their kindergarten year so we thought we’d focus on a few chapter books which requires more comprehension understanding (more words + less pictures). We’ve also been talking about how books can differ from movies and a few friends have seen the movie, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, so friends have already been sharing their understanding of the movie and specific events that they recall. Each day we’ll read one chapter and explore various activities throughout the story.

Our FAB this week is:

Social Studies: K.3.3 Locate and describe places in the school and community.

We made two webs that focus on each aspect of the FAB: places in our school and places in our community. When friends started sharing places in the community, I heard a lot of, “..we’ve been there!”. Personal experiences play a big role in children’s understanding and the things they share throughout the day.

In PREK2, children took various pictures of items and placed it in the correct space in the classroom. For example, Mack placed the pancakes in the kitchen area since that’s where teachers make food!

During our Facebook live session, a story was read before diving into a new art experience. Every child had the opportunity to explore the art experience. First, they wet their piece of paper with water. Then, they used cottons balls and different water colors to cover their paper. Since the paper was already wet, the water colors blended together. Our friends LOVED how the water colors worked together!

Finally, we enjoyed time outside together. One friend found many, many worms and eventually had several friends helping him in his bug/worm finding journey!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and shredded beef, fresh pineapple, and fresh cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt, fresh pineapple, graham cracker.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

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Happy Friday I hope you have all had a great week.  

Please enjoy the pictures from our Friday!

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with peanut butter and apples.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with turkey lunchmeat and cheddar cheese, peas and banana.

Snack: Pretzels and mozzarella string cheese.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

In K/PREK1, we’ve been diving into maps and globes all week  and the differences between the two. Today, we created a web that identified the things we can see on maps and globes such as rivers, cities, and capitals.

We’ve also been reading chapter books for the last two weeks. Friends were quick to point out that there are less pictures but they really seem to like the story lines and character development in the chapter books we’ve read so far!

What a way to end the week—

Check. Us. Out.

The laughter and personalities (and sunglasses) were out in full force on this Friday!

We hope everyone has a terrific weekend!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh watermelon.

Lunch– Turkey on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/banana, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Pretzels and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/29

Good Afternoon!

This simple and short blog condensed such a huge topic into a few paragraphs. The concept of learning is intense and people have varying ideas on how children should be ‘taught’. Teacher Tom used these words to describe his view:

“Learning is the most natural thing in the world. It’s an irrepressible part of being alive. From the moment we come into the world, and even before, the human animal takes in sensations and converts them into thoughts, ideas, theories, and understanding.”

“And when their irrepressible urge to become honestly educated emerges, we beat it back, telling them to sit down, to be quiet, and to focus on material that is as meaningless to the child as motes.”

“Our responsibility is to provide children food, clothing, shelter, and love, then to trust children to direct their own learning. This is the most natural thing in the world.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-most-natural-thing-in-world.html

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We had our fair share of fine motor activities that consumed our morning with a little sprinkle of a movement and dance time during our Facebook Live session!

As the rain fell outside all morning, children became intensely involved in their activities with their peers. It was quite the calm morning .

Breakfast– Kix and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh watermelon, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Peanuts and whole wheat crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/28

Good Afternoon.

Rain Rain Go Away!!! We ALL wanted to go outside but since the rain overcame us we decided to have some gross motor and music fun. We had a BLAST!!!

While Rowan was happily engaged with building with magna-tiles, I asked her what she was building? She very excitedly told me, “A Fairy Garden!” What a FANTASTIC imagination!!!!

Breakfast: Whole grain Chex and watermelon.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded chicken, corn and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat crackers and pumpkin seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Corn

Have a nice evening.

Marty

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Hello All and Good Afternoon.

The Dramatic Play area was a very popular space today.

Miss Caroline cooked many various foods for her friends and teachers to enjoy, meanwhile Ellie and Rowan changed their babies diapers and fed them from a bottle.

We then engaged in the gross motor area and walked on the stepping circles.

We looked at the colors and found which ones matched  and also which ones felt the same.

Breakfast: Whole grain Corn Puffs and apples.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat butter toast, mixed vegetables and banana.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with hummus.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a fabulous night.

Marty

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Happy Wednesday!

Have a look into our paint print, spider web watching, water play filled day!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and banana.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh apples, and fresh cucumber.

PM snack– Frozen blueberries, yogurt, blue corn chips.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/27

Good Afternoon!

As children came into the environment this morning, they asked for different games and manipulatives such as puzzles, ka-noodle, and dominos. Usually when one friend sits down to work on an activity like this, other friends come and join!

Later on in the morning, we hopped onto our Facebook live session where Miss Annastecia read a book about feelings and emotions before leading several children in a yoga session.

The book revolved around colors and associating them with feelings. Evie shared, “I feel like the color blue is a sad color.”

Once our yoga session was done, we decided to go outside and enjoy the weather! Between the water table, our three umbrellas, and a squirt bottle that a teacher had, we stayed relatively cool (even though many of us were super sweaty!).

Friends were super happy to be able to experience the water table again and worked very well together to make sure that everyone got a turn.

Breakfast– Corn Chex and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh apples, and fresh snap peas.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/26

Good Afternoon. I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

PLEASE NOTE: Now that the warmer temperatures are here, please bring in your child two pairs of extra summer clothes for their extra’s bin. Thank You!

This morning during outside play we engaged in the ever so fun and popular water table. We are always more than happy to get our hands and fingers wet in water.  

We engaged in a little more sensory play as well as adding in utilizing our hand-eye coordination and recognition of color skills by painting at the art easel. We made beautiful creations.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix and pears.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with peanut butter, carrots and watermelon.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Have a fabulous evening.

Marty

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