Good Afternoon!

Our PREK1 friends focused on identifying parts of a plant today! There are four important parts of a plant, all with a unique and important job. As children came up to the board, they chose a card from the bottom that had a plant part written on it. We read the word and then taped it next to the plant part.

In our PREK1 group time, we read ‘Spend It!’ which focuses on spending our money to buy things that we want. In the book, the main character has three carrots (money in Bunnyland!) that he earned from his allowance. He also wants three things but can’t afford all three. So, he works at figuring out which one he can afford and ends up choosing a pogo stick for 3 carrots. We love these books (author is Cinders McLeod) that revolve around money that are developmentally appropriate! After we read the book, we looked at four coins that we use to buy things. We identified them and their value. One friend shared, “My mom uses two quarters to buy Pokémon cards!”.

Science: K.4.1 Give examples of plants and animals.

We had another fantastic journal experience with our PREK1 kiddos. We journaled about Pikachu, dogs walking in the summer, and space! So many unique ideas that were journaled about today!

We continued exploring the idea of buying and selling, since friends enjoyed the idea so much yesterday.  Today, we tried a Lemonade Stand with colored water to make it as real as possible.  Friends got into a game of selling “ice” for the lemonade (one of the loose parts components of the activity).  They would trade a quarter for each ice cube to put in the drinks. Every time a friend would collect too much ice and needed to share, we would “sell” the ice to the rest of the table!    

As Dax explored the activity, he discovered when he overflowed his pitcher, he could make a “water slide” for the small puff balls with the pitcher handle.  He also discovered he could catch them and put them back in with his wooden spoon!  He was delighted with the discovery and shared his findings with friends!  Giving kids open ended time to explore allows for these spontaneous discoveries that have nothing to do with the original planned activity but everything to do with interest driven learning!

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PREK2: We read the book “How Much Is A Million?” at group today.  Large numbers have come up a lot in conversation.  After the book, we came up to the board to keep practicing our early math.  We counted how many lemons were next to our name.  Then, we added one more and found the sum.  Some of us wrote the sum ourselves.

Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh bananas.

Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/cantaloupe, and fresh peppers/cucumbers.

PM Snack: Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans and peppers.

Have a lovely afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2025-04-08

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged with rhythm sticks with Miss Tina, tapping them to a few songs. One of the songs was called Tap Your Sticks by Hap Palmer. We then acted out the book There Were Ten In The Bed using the big pillow for our bed to roll out of onto the floor.

We then engaged in the light table with the sensory balls.  We talked about their color being light or dark blue.  We felt the texture of the spikes in our hands and tossed them into the table.  Cece sat on Miss Bekah’s lap to explore the texture of the balls with us.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toasted with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat pasta with red beans, fresh mango slices and cooked green beans.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout:  Mini cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-07

Happy Monday!

We kicked off the week by starting to dive into animals and plants in our PREK1 group: specifically animals! We were able to sort animals based on where they live. We also talked about the word habitat and what it means. There were a few animals that caused wonder in friends: does the bird belong at the zoo or in a house? There were a few animals that could live in a couple different places.

Science: K.4.1 Give examples of plants and animals.

We had a fantastic journal experience today where our PREK1 kiddos really put their head down and went to work, focusing on their journal and what they wanted to share in their description.

This morning we took part in an imaginative farm market as our welcome activity.  We explored different coins as we pretended to buy and sell fruit.  We talked about pennies, quarters, nickels and dimes.  Katherine particularly enjoyed playing the part of the vender as she accepted four pennies per fruit and carefully packaged each purchase into a shopping bag using tongs! One friend exclaimed “I’ll use my knuckle to buy fruit!”.  Younger friends enjoyed sorting all of the like fruit into baskets.  Older friends organized the exchange of goods.  Everyone enjoyed pretending to use the fruit to create pretend baked goods.  As friends played, they naturally and independently practiced sorting, counting and applying what they had learned about coins.  They also practiced social emotional skills through the exchange of their “fruit sale”.  We always try to offer these types of learning experiences, inviting friends to  practice a multitude of skills simultaneously in an authentic way.

PREK2: We read “Market to Market” at group today after our farm market play activity this morning.  We got a chance to talk as a group about real experiences we have had at farm markets and what kinds of things we bought when we visited.  At the end of the story, we sorted the fruits that we had been pretending to buy and sell at our morning activity.  We counted how many were in each category as we went.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, fresh mango/strawberries, and fresh green beans/pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-07

Happy Friday!

We began our morning engaged in a variety of activities.  We worked at creating our 3 piece bear dress up puzzle set.   We choose a head, a shirt and pants that we like to create our bear in the puzzle board.  We also built with our BounceBlocks to sit on, snuggled with stuffed animals in the chair and Cece engaged in her activity table.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in a toy washing/water play sensory activity.  The friends were working on their pouring skills from one cup/bowl to another and strengthening their hand muscles to squeeze the water from their sponge.  We also have clean housekeeping toys.

We then headed outside to get some fresh air and engage in our favorite activities.

Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and banana.

Lunch: Whole grain honey wheat bread with hummus,  fresh mango and cucumber.

Afternoon Snack:  Goldfish crackers and mozzarella cheese stick.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-04

Happy Friday!

**Wee Friends will be closed Friday, April 18th for Good Friday.

The theme today seemed to be working in pairs to make things that were “the same”.  At the art table, two sets of friends worked to make pictures and projects that were the same.  A pair of boys chose to work together to make “winter pictures” that each had a house, snowflakes and a snow covered ground made of light blue pipe cleaners.  A pair of girls chose to make “rainbows and rain” pictures that looked the same.  The girls also went on to make wind chimes together, trying to make them look alike.  We talked about how interesting it was that people could make the same artwork but still each add something unique to it.  We love to see this kind of teamwork building bonds between classmates.  These are such young children with so much social emotional intelligence that they can successfully create projects together, share ideas and problem solve with no help needed from adults!  That feels like success from the perspective of a teacher!

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh clementines.

Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado salad sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh mango/pineapple/oranges, and fresh cucumber/pepper/carrots.

PM snack– Pretzels and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot/pepper.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-04

Good afternoon!

Our friends explored the wooden vehicles this morning. Our friends played with the firetruck, bulldozer and the dump truck. They used their gross motor skills to push the trucks around the carpet and floor.

We then made our way into the kitchen to engage in a loose parts activity. Our trays had miniature farm animals, tongs, wooden bowls or cups and wooden blocks. We stacked the blocks to make towers or worked our fine motor skills to squeeze the tongs to pick up the animals. We also worked on identifying the animal we were playing with and saying the sound it makes.

We then headed outside to enjoy the sunshine after a rainy day. We engaged in the sandbox and rode bikes down the hill.

Breakfast: Whole grain Puffins/ Corn Chex cereal with fresh oranges.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, cooked zucchini spirals and fresh cantaloupe.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat Ritz crackers with peanut butter and fresh apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Red bell pepper.

Have a beautiful evening.

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-03

Good Afternoon!

We focused on addition and subtraction problems this morning for our PREK1 sign in. Children found their name on the board and we looked at their math problem, identifying it as either an addition problem or subtraction problem. We used gem manipulatives to help us find the total to our problem.

K.CA.1-2: Solve real-world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g. 5= 3+2 and 5= 4+1).

This morning we explored movement with our welcome activity.  This group has been interested in moving parts and tunnels this week, plus ramps for many weeks!  We combined those components in this loose parts exploration activity. 

Younger kids have begun to join in the building projects at the art center more and more.  Dax made a “jet” and was able to get help problem solving how to tape one of the tubes to his box.  Ryan and Arthur helped with some brainstorming and it was decided that Dax needed a longer piece of tape!

PREK2: Today we read the story “The Color Monster”.  We talked about the “scared” monster and thought about how some of us felt a little scared during the thunderstorms this week.  We also talked about how we were still ok even though we felt scared.  On the board, we did a little math.  We counted how many bugs we we found next to our name.  Then we added one more bug.  We determined how many bugs we had after we added one.  Several kids wanted to try writing the number themselves, so anyone who wanted to tried writing the number after their teacher wrote it.

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Kix cereal with banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Trail mix with granola, sunflower/pumpkin seeds and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-03

Good Afternoon!

This morning Cece engaged in stacking the nesting bowls together.

The older friends engaged in building with the Mix or Match Magnetic Animal sets to create the animal how it is supposed to look or a unique animal.

Since it was a rainy morning we brought down the sensory tubes for us to explore the items inside and their sounds as some resembled the rain.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with kinetic sand in the big table with Miss Bekah. She added dinosaurs, plastic eggs and small dishes for us to use to enhance our play. Several friends made the molds of the plastic eggs to put in their dish or on the back of their dinosaur.

We all then enjoyed our turn on the swing with Miss Tina.

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh honeydew melon and red bell pepper slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Hummus and whole grain wheat tortillas.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-02

Good afternoon!

Today we we thought about who we might write a letter to.  We picked one person to write on the board.  We used our “kid spelling” to listen for the sounds we heard in the name we wanted to write.  we wrote the letters we heard on the board.  As we worked on this activity, we practiced the idea of writing for a specific audience.  We also practiced listening for both consonant and vowel sounds.

K.W.1: Write for specific purposes and audiences

K.RF.4.3:Recognize the long and short sounds of the five major vowels

After a friend added some new materials to our bin this morning, several friends got to work in the art center.  We tried cutting some of the cardboard into strips to see what the kids would do.  We also added bottle caps to the mix of options to see what ideas would emerge.  One friend had an idea to make a play ground.  He used a box and a bottle cap from the materials bin, then pulled some yarn from our string jar.  He asked if I could cut the string in half so the two sides were the same (a little early math naturally thrown into the building project).  After that, he used some tape to make a swing set the set with the strings and cap.

Another pair of friends made superhero suits of armor that they could wear.  One suit, which was made of cardboard and tape covered the maker from head to toe!  Another suit came with a cape made of paper.  The two friends put on their costumes and proudly showed them to classmates! 

We have noticed a lot of leadership at the art table from our older friends.  This morning the swing project was the result of a collaboration of ideas between a younger friends and an older friend who helped problem solve.  What amazing brains these kids are building through this kind of experiences!

Friends explored a bit of early math during the welcome activity this morning.  Friends were able to use our Montessori building set to create three dimensional geometric shapes like pyramids and cubes.  They created other things as they joined the shapes.  There were houses, roads and even dragons!

We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh strawberries

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs and cheese with fresh Cucumber/carrots and Honeydew melon/banana

PM Snack: Humus with blue corn tortilla chips

Wee Sprouts:Fresh Green Beans and carrots

Have a wonderful afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to Pictures:2025-04-02

Good afternoon!

Several of ours friends engaged with play food in the kitchen area this morning. Our friends used their imaginative play skills to pretend to cook food and then shared it with their friends sitting at the table.

We then made our way into the kitchen for an art activity with puffy paint. Miss Tina mixed glue, shaving cream and liquid watercolors to make the paint. Our friends identified the color they were using and shared how the paint felt “sticky.” A friend also shared that he made a “meow meow” painting.

We headed outside to enjoy the sunshine and engage with our favorite outdoor activities. We rode bikes, practiced our balance skills on the beam course, played with trucks in the rock area and explored dinosaurs in the sandbox.

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with fresh strawberries.

Lunch: Refried beans with shredded mozzarella cheese, whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh apple slices and cucumber.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with peanut butter and fresh oranges.

Wee Sprout: Orange bell pepper.

Have a beautiful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-04-01