Enjoy the pictures from our rainy day in!
Breakfast was Kix and grapes. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs with cheese, whole wheat bread with butter, banana, and corn. Afternoon snack was blue corn chips and string cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPs6ohpGhBvWm78ipQ
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
In large group, we read ‘Bob the Dog’ and talked about the important events that made up the story. After we finished the story, we put the events into the correct order. As a a group, we discussed how if one event was out of place, the story wouldn’t make sense. A friend shouted, “That’s the authors job; to have the story make sense!”
K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence. (2006 standard)
Everyday after we read our story, we complete the calendar for the day by talking about the month, year, and day as well as any special birthdays or holidays that we see. A couple months ago, I started highlighting the weekend days so that children knew the days that they were at school versus the days that they stayed at home.
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
Yesterday the friends that went for a walk around the block collected some leaves to bring back to Wee Friends. This morning we made a group collage by sticking the leaves on a large piece of contact paper. We then placed another piece over them to seal it together. You can find our collage hanging in the science area.
Playdough is one of our favorite sensory activities. We made two batches of playdough a few weeks ago. One of the batches we added a nice smelling scent of cinnamon. The children were busy making animals and pretend food to share with their friends and teachers.
We then headed outside for some bike riding, climbing and to work on our balancing skills.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and fresh pears.
Lunch: Red pepper hummus on whole grain wheat tortillas, oranges/strawberries and cherry tomatoes/peppers.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat crackers and peanuts.
Wee Sprouts: Peppers.
Have a great evening!
Rebekah
Link to pictures: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPpwOcmisPHBZjdT8w
We switched our corn and bean sensory bin out for moonsand! Friends were very interested in the different tools that were in this bin. There were tongs, popsicle sticks, and scoopers of all sizes. The first thing our friends did was use a cup to build a birthday cake in. They decorated the cake with a few popsicle sticks sticking out of it. Sophia packed moonsand into a measuring cup, tipped it out into her hand, and said it was a cupcake!
Breakfast was Kashi’s Blueberry Clusters and banana. Wee sprout was corn. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with hummus, grapes, and corn. Afternoon snack was toasted whole wheat bagels with butter and tomatoes.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPoY1NZhotnyBDhdYQ
Have a good night!
Amanda
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and apples. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with red beans, apples, and corn. Afternoon snack was graham crackers and cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPlTHh2Xu2C2flpcsw
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
This week, we’re focusing on concepts of time. We read, ‘There’s A Nightmare In My Closet’ and afterwards, we made a list of things we do in the morning, afternoon, and night whether we’re at home or at Wee Friends. Through making the list, we found that some of our daily routines differ between peers!
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
When we got to the farm, we were able to watch Miss Charlotte milk a goat! She told us that the milk from a goat is good for our skin but we were a little skeptical of that.
We were all ecstatic when we saw kittens! An older friend told us that they are five weeks old. Every friend took a turn petting the kittens; we LOVED them and are hopeful we’ll see them again next week.
We took a short nature walk and noticed that the leaves are really changing colors! Friends used their sense of sight to look for different colored leaves.
When we got back to the farm from our nature walk, we noticed that the turkeys were getting ready to leave the farm. Miss Charlotte takes such good care of her animals but sometimes, such as the turkeys, they have an ultimate end place. We talked about how when we eat any type of meat whether it’s ham, turkey, or chicken, it has to come from somewhere! We watched as the turkeys were gathered and put into a trailer before they left Prairie Winds Farm.
Our non-farm goers took a nature walk themselves this morning to look at the leaves changing color. Our friends observed leaves that had fallen as well as leaves that were still on the trees.
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and oranges.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and red beans, oranges/banana, and cucumber.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with pumpkin flax seed granola.
Wee Sprout– Cucumber.
Have a great evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/9
Link to farm pictures: WF 10/9 FARM
Learning is their journey.
Let them navigate.
Push them to explore.
Watch them discover.
Encourage their questions.
Allow them to struggle.
Support their thinking.
Let them fly.
Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and PPC pears.
Lunch– Shredded mozzarella cheese on whole wheat flatbread, oranges/PPC grapes, and PPC peppers.
PM snack– Pretzels and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– PPC peppers and cherry tomatoes.
Have a lovely weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/6
Enjoy the pictures from our day!
Breakfast was Kix and oranges. Wee sprout was corn. Lunch consisted of whole wheat flatbread with cheese, corn, and apples. Afternoon snack was cheese crackers and block cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPdpxHxMJbvlYUeM7g
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Today we ran…
Jumped…
And climbed! We love all the gross motor opportunities our outside environment provides us!
Breakfast was Kix and apples. Wee sprout was corn. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with shredded beef and cheese, corn, and banana. Afternoon snack was graham crackers and string cheese.
Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuliPc78KCLG1N0fvrbWg
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
The light table was set up this morning in the science area. We used a variety of manipulatives to talk about greater than and less than symbols. I associated the signs with an alligators mouth, the wide side wanting the bigger number. Lulu, Maddie, Lucy, and a few younger peers who joined in used the gems as counting manipulatives. The number cards 8 and 10 were put on the light table so older friends and their younger friends worked together to put the correct number of gems on the cards.
Afterwards, we talked about what number was the greatest and how the sign should go. “An alligator would want ten cupcakes instead of eight cupcakes because there’s more cupcakes!”, Lulu shared.
K.NS.7: Identify whether the number of objects in a one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.
We continued with this theme in large group as we read ‘More Pies’ by Robert Munsch. In the story, Samuel is super hungry so he enters a pie eating contest and wins! After we read the story, we contemplated whether or not Samuel would rather have eight pies or six pies. The five children in large group took turns placing the greater than or less than sign up on the chalkboard.
Grady, Max, and David used different materials this morning to create with. Grady sorted the pegs into groups by color while Max placed the rubber bands on two different peg boards. David used mostly triangles to build a house using magnatiles.
There is no set instructions on how to interact with these activities; it is open for our own interpretation!
We felt the sun on our face and the sand on our toes this morning as we experienced the outside environment!
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Breakfast– Kix and PPC pears.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef and cheese, banana/PPC grapes, and green beans.
PM snack– Woven wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprout– PPC green beans and fresh cucumber.
Have a fantastic night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/5
Good Afternoon!
**Halloween is coming up! We are going to continue with our tradition of taking a walk around the neighborhood in our Halloween costumes! We will start our parade at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 31st. If you can make it, please let a teacher know so we can get a head count! 
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I often look at the ‘Teach Tom’ blog to see if there’s any written articles that we can relate to here at Wee Friends. I just happened to read an article about forming lines today which seems appropriate.
Is it developmentally appropriate to expect 16 two-five year olds to form an orderly line? Absolutely not. The one time that we incorporate this into our day is while we’re outside at the drinking fountain. We are able to from an ‘age appropriate’ line but really, we implement this for order and the notion of ‘taking turns’ at the water fountain.
Throughout our day, we constantly ask ourselves: “Is this age appropriate for THIS child?”. We all know that children are different; what appropriate for one three year old may not be appropriate for another three year old.
Today, there were a couple examples of ‘forming lines’ that were entwined in our play. Franklin formed a line with his gingerbread while Elijah formed a line with all of the little people vehicles. Developmentally appropriate?: YES!
‘Forming lines’ Teacher Tom article:
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/marching-in-line.html
As for the rest of our day, it was one full of curiosity, relationship building, and intrigue.
..of course our infamous smiles!
Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with honey and PPC strawberries.
Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs, whole wheat bread, banana/strawberries, and PPC cucumbers.
PM snack– Blue corn chips and refried beans.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a great evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/4