Good Afternoon!

We felt it was a good day for an engaging sensory activity!  Friends enjoyed exploring a large tray with chemistry lab vibes.  They mixed soap, water, pompoms and liquid water colors to make potions in vats and vials.  A couple of friends even stayed to continue exploratory play after everyone had gone outside.  Since we had a teacher inside finishing up some fresh baked banana muffins for lunch, they were welcome to finish exploring! 

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

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh apples.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs, homemade oatmeal muffins, fresh strawberries/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrot/green beans.

 PM snack– Air popped popcorn with butter and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrot/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-06-04

Good afternoon!

We had a musical start to our morning today. Miss Bekah brought down the shaker instruments for our friends to explore and shake.

We then made our way into the kitchen for a water/sensory play activity. The tray at the table contained rocks, faux plants, snakes, frogs and water for our friends to explore. We identified the colors of the frogs and the varying sizes of the snakes. We also discussed the environments where frogs and water snakes reside, and mimicked the behaviors of the frogs by making them jump on the objects in the tray.

A few of our friends engaged with the BounceBlocks after the water play activity. Charlotte stacked them to make a tower to stand on. Cece and a friend played with single blocks.

We headed outside to enjoy this warm morning! We walked with green buckets, rode bikes down the hill, played in the sandbox, explored the water table, drew with crayons and explored baby toys on the grass.

Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh mango.

Lunch: Whole grain wheat tortilla with 1/2 mild cheddar cheese slice, fresh pear slices and carrot chips.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh apple slices.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-06-03

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 kids came to the sign in board where they were given several options to write their name under. They were asked to choose their favorite local spot in our community but several friends couldn’t pick just one. SO, they wrote their name under multiple places .  A few of our favorite places were the movie theater, car wash, and park!

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

We had a creative morning creating a large bubble wrap transfer painting in our outdoor art center. We first made a painting over bubble wrap, creating an abstract collaborative artwork.  Next, we used the painting to make prints.  We pressed individual pieces of paper over the painting, and lifted the transfer.  We made so many prints that we covered the entire back fence!

Congratulations to Arthur on his first kid-spelling!  He has started to hear letter sounds and share the sounds he hears in different words, like noticing the “R” sound in different friends names.  We tried sounding out words in his journal and he was able to write his first “kid spelled” word at journal time, “garden”.  Arthur went on to spell many more words since he was so excited about his new skill!  He chose to write the words “Classroom, Sea, Mommy, Cece, Love, Playground and Lemonade”.

Friends continued their interest in wearable art this morning.  They made masks with black paper and pastels.  One of our friends made herself a pair of shoes!

Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh pears.

Lunch– Melted shredded cheese quesadillas on whole wheat tortilla, fresh mango/pear/orange, and fresh cucumber/carrot.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-06-03

Good sunny and warm afternoon!

This morning we were engaged in a variety of activities.  We began our morning engaged with the big wooden trucks, pushing them along the carpet and adding animals to them to drive around.

We then built with the Mix and Match Magnetic Animals.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage in the light table with the sensory cylinders and pom-poms.  We worked our fine motor skills, placing the pom-pom inside the cylinder and pulling them out.  Cece engaged with the pom-poms and cylinders for the first time while standing at the table.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful morning.  We engaged with toys on our blanket, with dinosaurs in the sand box, climbed to the top of the climbing house, drew with crayons at the art table and had water play at the water table.

Breakfast:  Multi grain wheat toast with butter and cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh banana/strawberries.

Lunch:  Whole grain penne pasta with black beans, fresh cucumber and pear slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and graham crackers.

Wee Sprout:  Orange bell pepper.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-06-02

Good Afternoon!

We kicked off our week by diving into what we did over the weekend, specifically where we went. Friends thought for a moment and shared where in the community they had went. Several children shared that they went to gymnastics—popular weekend activity! Throughout the week, we’ll discuss places in our community as well as specific places in our classroom!

Later on in PREK1 group, we talked about the grocery store while reading a few pages from Here and There. First, we talked about the grocery store as we know it as well as the kinds of grocery stores we have. Then, we started reading Here and There, where we found out that in Indonesia, they have ‘floating markets’ on rivers where people sell goods—how fun! Kids were all about that, stating, “I want to go there!”.

This morning we invited kids to use their imaginations to create cooperative imaginative play using “loose parts materials”.  They used boxes, blankets and recycled materials of different shapes.  What manifested in the group was a make believe “donut delivery shop”.  Cardboard rolls cut into pieces became the donuts which were packed in boxes for sale.  Small cardboard rectangles became phones used to order and receive calls from customers.  The large boxes were the homes of customers who order donuts.  Several friends worked to package donuts and deliver them while others ordered from “home”. There was a moment where the donut shop became overwhelmed with calls and we had to create an “on hold system” so orders could be placed one at a time.  Katherine later decided she wanted to grow her store into an “everything store” where a customer could order anything they wanted…maybe her version of the original Amazon book store…but with donuts .

The space under the tree was busy this morning as the art table and water table were at maximum capacity our entire time outside! We love having multiple spaces to utilize water when it’s warm out.

PREK2: At lunch today we got to try asparagus!  Arthur, who had been interested brought some in and we sautéed and mixed it into the pasta.  He was so excited to try it even though he said he had tried it the night before and hand not enjoyed the flavor :).  We made a class chart at group time deciding whether we liked or did not like the asparagus.  Hannah shared that she” kind of liked the asparagus but also kind of did not like it”, so we decided she should place her name on the line between the columns.

Breakfast– Whole wheat english muffins with butter and banana.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded chicken and asparagus (thanks Arthur!), fresh oranges/banana, and fresh cucumber/snap peas.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-06-02

Happy Friday and last day of May.

This morning we went into the kitchen to engage with playdough.  Golf tees were added to our tools.  While a friend was adding their golf tees, they imagined they were candles and sang the Happy Birthday song.  We were also busy making designs with our pizza cutter, making the mold of our plastic egg half, cutting out shapes with our cookie cutters and rolling it between our hands to make snakes. 

Enjoy

Enjoy some pictures from our day!

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

Lunch:  Oven roasted turkey lunch meat, multi-grain wheat bread, fresh cucumber and watermelon slices.

Afternoon Snack:  Pretzels, mild cheddar block cheese slices and bananas.

Wee Sprout:  Cucumber.

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2025-05-30

Happy Friday!

This week, we have had a lot of interest in “Rolly-Polly” bugs in the garden.  Friends have spent much of our outdoor time looking for them, making habitats for them in bug jars and asking questions about them.  Today we decided to bring some inside and create a rolly-polly habitat in the science area.  Friends helped to collect sticks mulch and leaves to put inside.  We added some “Wee Sprouts” to the habitat for the rolly- polly bugs to eat.  We learned that they eat vegetables.  We also noticed that rolly pollys have more than six legs.  We learned that rolly- polly bugs are not insects but belong to a group of creatures called isopods.  Lots of life science this week!

Friends explored loose parts at the round table this morning.  Our play evolved with the kids.  As the kids built tunnels to roll puff balls down, there was an issue with the pipes slipping.  We problem solved, trying several ideas and landed on some silicone pieces being the best way to secure the tunnels.  Problem solving with kids gives offers a great opportunity for their own critical thinking and problem solving skills to grow. 

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

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

Lunch– Ham and cheese sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/banana/strawberries, and fresh pepper/cucumber/carrot.

PM snack– Goldfish with mozzarella cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/carrot.

Have a lovely weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-05-30

Good Afternoon!

A friend asked for “marching sticks” this morning, so we brought out the rhythm sticks to march with in the front. We tapped our sticks together or tapped them on the floor as we marched.

Our friends made their way to the kitchen to paint at the easel. Two friends came in a time so we practiced waiting for our turn patiently. We painted with 6 different colors with 3 different brush sizes: small round, medium round and large flat. We identified the colors we were painting. A friend summed up our activity by saying “the paintings are so beautiful!.”

While our friends waited for their turn to paint, Miss Bekah set out several different activities for our friends to engage with. We had waffle blocks out to build with, object permanence boxes to explore and dress-up bear puzzle for friends to complete.

We then headed outside to enjoy this wonderful morning weather.

Breakfast:  Corn Chex cereal and fresh pear slices.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded turkey, watermelon slices and cooked carrot slices.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagel with cream cheese and fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout: Cucumber.

Have a fantastic evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-05-29

Good Afternoon!

Four kids in our PREK1 group went to the farm this morning! It was a slow moving trip which allowed us to take our time in nature, moving whichever way the wind blew us (no pun intended!).

We stopped by the barn where we said hi to all of the animals. Ryan quickly noticed that the chickens had laid a few eggs! As we headed back towards the marsh area, we stopped at the pond where we played a game the kids called, ‘Float or sink’. They gathered a few nature items, mainly sticks and grass, and worked together to guess if items would sink or float in the pond.

We visited our favorite swing where Ryan and Paige worked at pushing one another on the rope swing. This requires a ton of strength, coordination, and balance! We ended our trip by having a quick snack before we visited the ‘lookout’ for a bit. Instantly, we saw several different birds flying throughout the marsh.

One of the things we value most at Wee Friends is our outside time. We try our best to bring our indoor environment, outside. Meaning, we paint, create, build, dig, and explore outside, along with a very loose daily schedule where we can punt and spend majority of our day outside!

I’ve attached an article about the huge benefits of outside time on kids mental health. I loved the ideas the author shared of quality outdoor activities along with activities if you’re short on space! Kids have such a wide imagination that they really just need the space and the materials and they’re off!

https://www.kidsmentalhealthfoundation.org/mental-health-resources/mental-wellness/benefits-of-outdoors

In the classroom, we offered a tadpole observation and painting station.  Our tadpoles have started to grow small back legs, so we spent time looking at how they changed.  Some friends wondered why they had the two back legs but no front legs.  We talked about how the tadpole changes slowly, developing one area at a time.   As we observed and painted, some friends began to notice other living things inside the jar.  There was a snail and, the favorite,  a dragonfly nymph!  We got to talk about metamorphosis in other kids of creatures like the dragonfly.

PREK2:  Outside, several friends were on the hunt for pill bugs.  They looked under logs, in the garden and around bushes.  Some made homes for the bugs inside jars and watched them during our outdoor time.  Some even named them.  At group we read “A Pill Bug’s Life” and counted pill bugs on the board in response to the outdoor interest.

Breakfast– Puffins cereal with fresh strawberries.

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

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

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/carrot.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-05-29

Happy Wednesday!

This morning while we were looking out the reading step window, we noticed a big, stuffed teddy bear sitting on the neighbor’s bench.  Seeing that led us to wanting to grab our stuffed bears/animals to engage with in our play and go on a bear hunt.

We then headed into the kitchen to engage with some bear sorters and our wooden shape loose parts.  The friends were holding up the different colors of the bears to identify and also putting them onto their wood shape pieces.  Cece even joined us in sitting at the table exploring the bears on her tray.

Some of us then headed out to engage with driving the wooden cars on the floor or wooden ramps, or listening to Miss Bekah read books, or looking at one independently from the reading step shelf.

We then headed out to get some fresh air outside before the rain came.  Cece engaged with her basket of toys, Eleanor peeked over from inside the climbing house, Clark engaged with the dinosaurs in the sandbox, Charlotte worked on climbing to the top of the house, a friend interacted with Cece on her blanket and several friends engaged with the sea animals and sea shells at the table.

Breakfast:  Overnight Oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh apple slices.

Lunch:  Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded mozzarella cheese, English muffins with buttery spread, fresh cucumber and bananas.

Afternoon Snack:  Homemade oatmeal muffins and white corn tortilla chips with hummus.

Wee Sprout:  Yellow bell peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-05-28