Happy Monday!

While reading ‘Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash’ in K/PREK1, we discussed what a gardener needs to do his or her job. This lead into a conversation about four specific professions: dentist, teacher, farmer, and doctor. First, friends worked together to come up with a description about what each profession does. Then, we made a list naming the items or tools each professional needs to do their job.

We started off by discussing what teachers need to do their job. After naming tools like pen and pencil, a five year old friend shared, “Teachers need energy, right?! So they need sleep and tons of energy.”

Social Studies: K.4.2 Identify and describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools they use.

In PREK2, children came up to the easel to draw a line between each profession and the tool they need to do their job. Our background knowledge of several of these professions was evident. When Miss Kim asked her group, “What is the person called that makes coffee?”, a friend responded, “Coffier.”

Our science area has gotten a makeover these last few weeks. Children explored our newly put together area as well as the toys are that offered. When friends walked in the door, they shared their thoughts as well as pointed out everything new that they saw!

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh pears.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with butter and shredded beef, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh apples.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a wonderful night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/6

Good Afternoon.

“If it hasn’t been in the hand… and the body… it can’t be in the brain.” ~Bev Bos

What an absolutely gorgeous day! Our friends LOVED being outside and engaging in all the wonderful parts of nature and being with their friends and teachers from the preschool site.  

We utilized our hand-eye and fine motor skills today putting puzzles together. We LOVE puzzles.

If anyone has any puzzles that they would like to donate to our classroom, we would greatly appreciate them. Thank you in advance.

Breakfast: Whole wheat English muffins with cream muffins and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef, carrots and banana.

Snack: Whole milk yogurt with grahams.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a wonderful evening.

Marty

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Happy Friday!

Lucy’s kindergarten sign in tricked down to our three year old’s! Friends took the Lego maze and had to find a path for the marble. They put the marble at one opening and the goal was to find a path to the other opening.

We were able to extend this activity for our older friends. Penny and Lucy took the marble maze and held it with two hands. Using balance and a little finesse, they moved the marble throughout the maze.

The rest of our day was GRAND! We hope yours was too.

Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh strawberries/banana.

Lunch– Ham and cream cheese rollups, block cheese, whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Goldfish and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a great weekend.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/3

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

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”~Confucious

We had an awesome painting sensory experience today. We started off painting with green paint onto paper and then that quickly turned into painting the table green. Why just stick to painting paper when we can have even more fun painting the table?!?!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and oranges.

Lunch: Whole wheat bread with ham lunchmeat, broccoli and apples.

Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and Colby jack cheese slices.

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a fantastic weekend, we’ll see you Monday!

Marty

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Good Afternoon!

K/PREK1 children focused on seeing another person’s perspective during our group time. We read ‘The Tale of Two Beasts’ which focuses on two main characters. It is told from the little girl’s point of view who finds a beast in the woods and takes him home. Then the exact same story is told from the beasts’ perspective with the illustrations matching throughout the story.

After the story was finished, we talked about seeing a situation from someone else’s point of view. Maxwell said, “Yeah like when my parents carry me. They think they’re helping me but I want to walk by myself.”

As we were talking about this, Lucy said, “I can see why the beast was upset. He was happy even though the girl thought he was sad and lonely.”

PREK2 friends made predictions about which animals traveled slowest to quickest. After they made their predictions, Miss Kim told them the actual speed of each animal before placing the animals into the correct order.

Max started exploring different speeds and angles by using various cardboard tubes in the habitrail. He placed two cardboard tubes next to each other, one longer and one shorter. We used two marbles and had races to see which marble came out first. Before we let go of the marbles, we guessed which marble would come out of its tube first.

After, we constructed a cardboard track that had two different pieces. First, we used a marble which was successful! We started talking about another items we could try on the track. We came to the conclusion that the items should be round. We went on a hunt throughout the environment to find round items to test out. Children found a puff ball, a rock, and because we were so interested..a car!

All of these didn’t work because they weren’t completely round. We talked about why it wasn’t successful as a group and were able to come up with conclusions about our experiment.

Science: K.3.2 Investigate that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc.

Breakfast– Corn Chex and banana.

Lunch– Brown rice with turkey, fresh watermelon, and fresh peppers/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Peanuts and Wheat Thins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes and peppers.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/2

Good Afternoon.

Please enjoy the pictures from our day.

Whole grain Kix cereal and banana.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded pork, corn and watermelon.

Snack: Pretzels and mozzarella sting cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Peas.

Have a great night!

Marty

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Good Afternoon and Happy May!!

PLEASE NOTE: WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF UPCOMING CLOSURE DATES…. WF/WWF WILL BE CLOSED FOR MEMORIAL DAY MAY 27, 2019 AND THEN OUR ANNUAL SUMMER VACATION DATES THIS YEAR ARE JUNE 27 THROUGH JULY 7, 2019. WE WILL REOPEN ON JULY 8TH, 2019.

“The way we treat our children directly impacts what they believe about themselves.” ~Adriadne Britt

We finally got a break in the rain and were able to go outside and get some much needed fresh air and play time We were all very happy and excited.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with honey and banana.

Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat toast with butter, corn and fresh strawberries.

Snack: Whole wheat Ritz crackers with cream cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Broccoli

Have a nice night!

Marty

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Happy first day of May!

**Wee Friends will be closed Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day. Thanks!

Enjoy a few pictures from our Wednesday!

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and fresh pineapple.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh mango/pineapple, and fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and fresh banana.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumbers/cherry tomatoes.

Have a fantastic evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 5/1

Good Afternoon!

Zoom is one of our favorite Robert Munsch stories. During our K/PREK1 group time, we read Zoom and discussed important events that occurred. The main character, Lauretta, goes through the process of getting a new wheelchair. She tests out wheelchairs with different speeds. They each end up being too slow!

After the story was finished, we created a web with other ‘action’ or ‘motion’ words that we know. “Well, slow and fast are the opposite of each other!”, shared a friend as we jotted down each thought.

Science: K.3.2 Investigate that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc.

PREK2 children categorized animals into two groups: fast and slow. Each animal was discussed, specifically how fast or slow they move.

“Allowing children to have significant input into the selection of activities has beneficial consequences. Besides allowing them to focus on what is most important and rewarding to them, it also conveys the idea they’re capable of doing things that positively affect their lives.”

-Dr. Stan Goldberg

Breakfast– Kix along with fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh pineapple, and fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Whole grain bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumbers.

Have a good evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 4/30

Good Afternoon.

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” ~ Pinterest.com

The rain and dreary weather did not keep us down today! We were so excited to play in some cardboard boxes from our GFS food order.

At first inspection of the boxes, friends decided to climb right in and see if their bodies would fit. Then we added in our baby dolls and last but not least… the MOST fun we found was stripping the tape off the boxes. We worked hard on taking that tape off and were very satisfied with our end result. Who would have thought boxes could bring so much happiness!?!?

One of our older friends thought it would be a great idea to dress Nesta up with a colorful baseball cap! Nesta sure didn’t seem to mind at all either. How cute!

Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios with banana.

Lunch: Whole wheat tortilla with shredded Colby Jack cheese, peas and fresh pineapple.

Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese/peanut butter (Kids choice)

Wee Sprouts: Corn.

Have a fantastic evening.

Marty

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