Good afternoon!

We started off our morning by playing with the plastic blocks. Our friends turned them over to sit in them or to fill them up with our felt snowballs.

We then made our way to the kitchen to engage with a new sensory light table that Miss Tami bought for our classroom. We filled the tray with translucent sensory beads and green sensory tubes. Miss Tina changed the light color and would ask friends what the name of the new color was. Our friends scooped the beads with their hands, stacked the tubes into small towers and watched it pour out of their hands from above.

We headed outside for another beautiful morning. Our friends helped shovel the snow, took turns going down the slide and engaging in the housekeeping area with one of our older siblings.

Breakfast: Whole grain Oatmeal Squares cereal with fresh pear.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, cooked corn and blueberries.

Afternoon Snack: Sunflower seeds and Triscuits crackers.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-30

Good Afternoon!

As we have been painting lately, we have noticed, once again, there is a strong drive to use hands and fingers to paint.  Going with the flow of that interest lead to this activity.  We mixed paint with shaving cream to make it thick and fluffy!  Then we added one of each primary color to our new enormous Tuff tray and allowed friends to explore together.  As our kids painted, we used paper to pick up their finger marks as “monoprints”.

Enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast– Puffins cereal with fresh cantaloupe/blueberries.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded turkey, fresh clementines/banana, and fresh green beans/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter and pumpkin/sunflower seed mixture.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-30

Good Afternoon!

**Reminder that the Conference Scheduling Form is due this Friday! Thanks!

Earlier in the week, we talked about the number of sides when dealing with a shape. Today, we focused on the number of vertices. Each child was able to find their name, identify their shape, and circle all of the vertices on their shape. Everyone was able to identify the vertices and count them!

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

This morning we explored ways to make two and three dimensional shapes.  We used match sticks and balls of clay to put shapes together in different ways, depending upon where we were developmentally.  Arthur built a triangular prism.  When I commented on his work, he corrected “no, this is a tent.”.

We spent much of the morning enjoying the snow and fresh air!  Albert was in the sandbox laughing to himself.  I asked what he found funny and he said he had found that all of the dragons where frozen in a block of ice.  I pulled the block out of the bin so he could look at it.  I asked him how long he thought it might take for the sun to melt the dragons free of the ice.  Albert replied “I’m doing an experiment!” .

We hope you enjoy some more pictures!

PREK2:  We read “The Snowy Day” at group today.  Our kids had noticed animal tracks in the snow when we first went outside yesterday, so today we counted animal tracks on our group board!

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh blueberries.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/pineapple/grapes, and fresh green beans/carrot/cucumber.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a wonderful night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures 2025-01-29

Happy Wednesday! 

We began our morning with Miss Tina reading teacher books to us while we sat in the plastic blocks.

We then danced to several songs.  We went on a Dinosaur Hunt with our stuffed animals and then acted out the song, See The Bunnies Sleeping?

We then headed into the kitchen to scoop and pour the moon sand.

Cece was reaching, crunching and rolling to her side to reach her toys on her playmat.

We then headed outside to play and go sledding down the hill and enjoy some fresh air and sunshine.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bananas.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh cantaloupe and cooked carrots.

Afternoon Snack:  Refried beans and white corn tortilla chips.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-29

Good afternoon!

This morning, our friends were engaged in a variety of activities. Eleanor sat with Miss Mindy and listened to her read a book. A friend snuggled with a pink teddy bear and another friend sat in the cube. Cece played with the toys on her mat and has been showing us her new skill: rolling from her back to her belly!

Our friends then headed to the kitchen for a marker art activity. Our older friends had journal binders with blank paper inside for them and our younger friends drew on single sheets of paper. Miss Tina asked the friends individually which color marker they would like and would then give them the color they asked for verbally. We made dots, horizontal/vertical lines and circles with our markers.

We then bundled up to make our way outside to enjoy the warmer weather, sunshine and snow!  Our friends explored the snow in a variety of ways. Some of our friends took turns sledding down the hill, scooping up snow with our hands and then placing it in a bucket, helping shovel a path and going down the slide.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh red pear slices.

Lunch: Avocado/shredded chicken salad, whole grain wheat tortilla, fresh green bell pepper and blueberries.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with peanut butter, 1/2 mozzarella cheese stick and fresh pineapple slices.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-28

Happy Tuesday!

**Please make sure your child has appropriate gear for snow play this week (snow pants, winter jacket, snow boots, and gloves/hat). Thanks!

PREK1 group came to the sign in board where they chose a card to sign in under. Each card had a different shape on it so children studied them carefully, figuring out what new shape they would like to make. Albert chose to build a trapezoid by using five small triangles!

K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g. create a rectangle composed of two triangles).

Today in PREK1 group, we read one of our favorite stories, ‘The Grouchy Ladybug’. We found out that this story has the same author and illustrator!

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

We explored different ways to build shapes today.  At the round table we used popsicle sticks and clothes pins.  At the art table we tried straws and tape.  We built triangles, diamonds, squares and rectangles.  At he art center several friends got interested in making kite shapes.  We added tin foil to our shape structures, creating solid shapes.  Many friends took off exploring what they could make with the new materials!

We all had a wonderful time playing in the snow!  We never tired of sledding down our Wee sledding hill! 

Breakfast– Kix and fresh blueberries.

Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado salad sandwiches, fresh pineapple/oranges/grapes, and fresh cucumber/snap peas/carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-28

Good Afternoon!

This morning we engaged in a variety of activities.  We engaged with dress up clothes and accessories from housekeeping, snuggled with a stuffed animal and working on matching our colors with the pop-up people toy.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with playdough.  Miss Bekah went and found a circle cutter to help us make circles to make a snowman and heart shape cutters to make hearts since Valentine’s Day is approaching.  We enjoyed working to make the shapes and manipulate our playdough with our hands.

Cece made a big happy smile for the camera while sitting and playing in her chair.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Whole grain wheat penne pasta with red beans, fresh oranges and cooked broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh blueberries.

Wee Sprout:  Orange/red bell peppers.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-01-27

Good Afternoon!

**PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS THEIR SNOW GEAR FOR TOMORROW!

We kicked off a new week of PREK1 sign in where we focused on a specific physical characteristic of various shapes: the number of sides! Each friend blindly picked a shape from a bowl and counted the number of sides. They sorted the shape into a category on the board based on the number of sides their shape had. As they taped their shape on the board, some friends commented on other shapes in their group!

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

Throughout the week, we’ll add the book we read during PREK1 group to our chart. Today, we identified the title, author, and illustrator and talked about the specific jobs of the author and illustrator. The illustrations in ‘A Story For Small Bear’ were so beautiful!

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

This morning we puzzled over pattern blocks, trying to find new ways of putting them together to make shapes.  Several friends made flowers.  They found different solutions using hexagons, trapezoids, diamonds, triangles and squares arranged in different ways.  One friend noticed that the diamond shape resembled a flower seed and added those shapes to the center of her flower where the seeds would be.  Several others did this as well.  We had grown a large sunflower in the garden this summer and we had examined it up close after it had gone to seed.  Friends spent an afternoon removing the seeds with tweezers.  It was fun to see the kids so aware of where the seeds are formed in a flower!

In the art center, we used classroom objects that we see every day to make shape paintings.  We enjoyed some of the new textures, like the dots and lines we could make with the bristle blocks.  This activity opens up new ways of seeing the world, as we break it down into the shapes that are all around us.

Breakfast: Whole wheat English muffins with butter and fresh orange slices

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheesy flat bread, fresh green peppers/carrots and fresh banana/grapes/apples

PM snack: Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh carrots/cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-27

Happy Friday!

PREK1 kiddos ended the week exploring with magnatiles for their sign in activity. Each group member was given a card that showed a picture of a shape created with several magnatile shapes. For example, Ryan was tasked at finding one square and two triangles. He used those three shapes to make a new shape: a trapezoid!

We continued exploring shape building at the light table.  We found that there were a variety of triangles offered to explore.  We tried making different shapes out of the triangles, finding we could make hexagons, diamonds and squares using only triangles.  We also made other kinds of structures like “rocket ships” and “houses” using a mixture of shapes.

Our younger friends enjoyed a shape game to see how many shapes they remembered.  The searched blindly through a jar of beans pulling out all of the shapes and trying to remember what they were called.  Friends also enjoyed re-hiding them for the next friend!

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

Lunch– Turkey on whole wheat bread, fresh pineapple/kiwi/pear/grapes, and fresh cucumber/broccoli/pepper.

PM snack– Fresh pears, cheddar block cheese, and goldfish.

Wee Sprout– Fresh broccoli/cucumber/pepper.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-24

Good Afternoon!  Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Turkey lunch meat, whole grain wheat tortillas, bananas and cooked butternut squash.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole grain Goldfish crackers with mild cheddar block cheese slices.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumbers.

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-01-24