Good Afternoon!

It was quite a hands on Wednesday here at Wee Friends.

We tested our puzzle abilities by challenging ourselves with new puzzles that we’ve never done before. A few friends who normally do the 24 piece wooden puzzles decided to try the 48 piece puzzles. Lucy and Calix teamed up and finished a few by working together.

A group of friends started their morning off by learning how to play the game ‘I Spy’. The game had children using their sight to find various items on their piece of card board. Once they found all of their items, they hit the buzzer (this was their FAVORITE part!).

The art table opened up after breakfast to allow children the opportunity to create! Maddie used several materials to build a bed for her yellow giraffe.

Jackson requested that we investigate volcanoes so Miss Melinda called a couple friends over to the art table to explore this idea more. Using red tubs and glass bottles, we created our own volcanoes! Each child took a spoon and poured a spoonful of baking soda into their glass jar before vinegar was added. Once the vinegar was added, friends anxiously waited to see what would happen. When the liquid started to bubble over the top, friends wanted to see this over and over again!

Just look at our faces .

The sensory table was made available again this morning as friends moved the moon sand throughout the container using various materials such as cups, spoons, and rolling pins.

Large group explored their thoughts and put them on paper. From pools to fairy gardens, our creativity was bursting!

After reading, “Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?”, which contained various nursery tales, we discussed rules that we follow at home. Earlier in the week, we came up with a list of rules that we follow here at school. So, today we shared rules that our Mommy’s and Daddy’s make us follow at home. We had a hard time choosing just one so many children shared multiple rules that they follow at home. Addi shared that she’s not supposed to work with her daddy’s tools. She looked at her friends and said, “I can’t work with them because they’re for grown ups and they could hurt me!”

Breakfast– Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon and pears/kiwi.

Lunch– Refried bean and melted shredded cheese tortillas, PPC green grapes, and cucumbers.

PM snack– Air popped popcorn and raisins.

Wee Sprout– PPC peppers.

Have a terrific night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/11

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

Breakfast was Kix and blueberries. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with refried beans and cheese, clementine’s, and peas. Afternoon snack was blue corn chips and Colby Jack cheese.

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Have a good night!

Amanda

This morning Miss Melinda offered a musical activity. First the children listened  and danced to some songs on a CD. Then they were given a rhythm stick to use as they walked throughout the house tapping their sticks on different items to check the different sounds they made. Afterwards she placed water at different levels in beakers and they tapped gently to listen for the different timbres.

For a sensory experience, the moon sand table and art easel were available for the children to enjoy digging and building castles or painting using long brush strokes to make lines down the paper.

The children were busy enjoying a good book, playing a board game together, building with the color viewer blocks in the new loft or building with magnatiles.

Breakfast: Corn Chex cereal and pears.

Lunch: No Nut butter sandwiches on multigrain bread, oranges, tomatoes and green beans.

Afternoon Snack: Toasted whole wheat bagel and colby jack block cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Green beans.

Have a great night!

Rebekah

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5gSRf5K-rA0MTBijQ

Today we decorated hearts with dot paints…

Cooked together in housekeeping…

Raced through tunnels…

And were great helpers when a big truck brought our groceries!

Breakfast was Corn Chex and blueberries. Wee sprouts was mixed veggies. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5hL8MFYeqALDdnLhg

Have a great night!

Amanda

Welcome back! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday break!

Breakfast was Cheerios and oranges. Wee sprout was peas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with chicken, apples, and mixed veggies. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and blueberries.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5csVyLrmHuysWUgNg

Have a great night!

Amanda

Welcome Back!

FAB’s for the week:

Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

First, a BIG thank you to Miss Tami and her husband, Charles, on another spectacular Wee Friends renovation. The habitrail and art area got a facelift including new shelving, colored wood on the walls, and a new small loft, among other things. We all loved exploring this morning to find new things in the environment. We appreciate all of your work!

We were all so happy to get back into our Wee Friends routine today! Friends moved throughout the house, observing the new additions before diving into their play.

The housekeeping area was busy all morning as children used several props within their play. Anna, Rosemary, and Tate gathered a few babies along with blankets and proceeded to read stories to them. As they were reading, Tate noticed a ‘T’ and said, “That’s a T for my name: Tate!”

There are also new bins for all of our toys! We had a group meeting pertaining to the rules with the new loft and allowing all of our friends to become acquainted with the new features, such as the new bins!

The new loft was utilized a lot this morning. As a group, we decided on what toys we should allow up in the loft. We came to the conclusion that the colored blocks would work well!

Jackson and Addi started a new sign in this morning that focuses on writing using writing strips. Since the sentence strips are somewhat new, I assisted Jackson by scaffolding his experience by demonstrating how upper case and lower case letters look like on the sentence strip. He took another colored marker and traced my letters, allowing him to get the feeling of the letters. Throughout the week, sentence strips will be made available so that we can become more comfortable using them.

Not only will the sentence strips help increase our writing experience but it allows us to work on spacing, capitalization, and letter formation.

We welcomed Tate and Lucy into our large group today! Jackson and Addi did a great job showing Tate and Lucy the procedure for going to large group as well as journaling.

We read a story together before making a list of some classroom rules that we follow here at school. After we made the list, we talked about why these rules are important. The consensus was that these rules keep us SAFE. A few friends shared personal stories about getting hurt and how it made them feel—“Which is why it’s important to follow the rules!”, stated a friend.

(Social Studies: K.2.3 Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us)

Breakfast– English muffin with no nut butter and apples.

Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and chicken, apples, and mixed vegetables.

PM snack-Whole milk yogurt with blueberries.

Wee Sprout– Carrots.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/9

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break! See you in the new year!

Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and blueberries. Lunch consisted of egg salad sandwiches, peas, and apples. Afternoon snack was yogurt and blueberries.

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Have a great weekend!

Amanda

Good morning!

We were quite low today which allowed for a quiet, low key day.

Many of our friends became involved at the art table or with puzzles! Riley asked to make another bird feeder and friends soon flocked to the table with him.

Anna and Rosemary occupied the tent while Elijah got his swinging quota in for the day. The new red swing is by far our favorite swing that we have available!

Calix played a letter game where he threw bean bags on various circles and we talked about the letter the bag landed on. For example, he threw a bean bag on the letter ‘C’. He said, “Hey! That’s C for Calix!”

Breakfast– Rice cakes with no nut butter and blueberries.

Lunch– Homemade egg salad on tortillas, peppers, and apples.

PM snack– Block cheese and crackers.

Wee Sprout– Peppers.

Have a safe and joyful Christmas vacation! See everyone in 2017.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 12/23

Today we made something special for the birds. We started out with a plain pinecone.   Next we had to spread shortening all over it before applying Cheerios. Each child made 2 so they could have one here and another one at home. We’ll have to wait and see what’s left of them here at school tomorrow or when we get back from our Christmas break.

Our day was also filled with building, with blocks, swinging, working on puzzles or enjoying a great story.

The highlight of our morning was that it was warm enough for us to go out and play in the  snow! We made snowballs, took turns sliding down the hill on the sleds and checked to see how fast we could go down the slides in our snow pants. We had a blast!

Breakfast: Oatmeal pancakes and blueberries.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, grapes, oranges and broccoli.

Afternoon Snack: Wheat Thins and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.

We hope you enjoyed your Thursday as much as we did!

Rebekah

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Our friends made birdfeeders today!

Fist, we rolled pinecones in shortening. This was the messy part; more than one friend was rubbing their hands together to feel the slippery shortening on their skin.

Then, after sneaking a few, we stuck Cheerios to the pinecones.

Ta da! Birdfeeders ready to take home and hang outside!

Breakfast was Kix and oranges. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with chicken, blueberries, and green beans. Afternoon snack was graham crackers and blueberries.

Link to photos: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIulh5R60yTui7557_571Q

Have a good night!

Amanda