Anna got comfy in our reading area with soft pillows and a book.
In the afternoon she played with not one, but two shakers!
David asked for the soft slide to be pulled out today in the gross motor area. Climbing up and down it is so enjoyable to him!
Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and grapes. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with cheddar cheese, apples, and broccoli and cauliflower. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and apples.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Good Afternoon!
It was Tangram Tuesday.
Friends took turns using the tangram outlines and different shapes to complete the tangrams. Not only did friends notice the difference between shape but also color!
We’re continuing to explore our new scale! Using different items, friends ask the question, “Which side is heavier?”
We worked our legs on our bikes this morning. Active and ‘on the go’ could be used to describe our morning! 
Wee Sprouts—Cucumbers.
Breakfast—Whole Grain Cheerios with fresh pears.
Lunch—Whole wheat tortillas with mozzarella cheese, strawberries/grapes, and cucumbers/tomatoes.
PM snack—Toasted whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Have a great night!
Anna got comfy in our reading area with soft pillows and a book.
In the afternoon she played with not one, but two shakers!
David asked for the soft slide to be pulled out today in the gross motor area. Climbing up and down it is so enjoyable to him!
Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and grapes. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with cheddar cheese, apples, and broccoli and cauliflower. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and apples.
Have a good night!
Amanda
This Week at a Glance:
Tuesday—swim class at the Y
Wednesday—trip to the farm for Group A [Elizabeth, Elliott, Emerson, Daniel, Jackson, Clara, Addi, Eren]. This is potentially our last trip to the farm, dependent on the weather next week!
*Next Friday (October 30th)—the WF Halloween Parade! Next Friday we will have our Halloween parade at 4:00 pm (outside, weather permitting). Parents are welcome to join us as we showcase our costumes and perform a short Halloween song! If children would like to dress up, they can bring their costumes to school and the teachers will help them get dressed before the parade.
Hello! This morning we began to work with the corn kernels we popped off the corn cobs last week. Friends used glue and popsicle sticks to make a design with the kernels. The complexity of friend’s designs varied with age, but everyone was very focused in this fine motor skill work.
Habitrail was a busy area today as friends worked with cars and explored a toy from the basement, our wooden fire station!
Several large creations were made today as well, including a car track and swimming pool complete with a “kiddie pool.”
Today for snack the Purple Porch brought us a unique fruit known as a “Jujube”! We learned that the jujube has a small pit and tastes very sweet. After hearing a teacher spell “jujube” out loud, Clara declared, “it has a pattern! J-u-j-u!”
Reactions were mixed with some friends refusing to try, others disliking the taste and some loving the sweet flavor!
Kindergarten: For kindergarten today Elliott and Elizabeth decided to start a “stocking project.” Today we chose the color felt we wanted to work with, drew a stocking shape and cut it out. Future steps that the two decided on include sewing the stocking together, stuffing it and then taking it home. We will see where this project takes us!
Have a wonderful Monday! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Broccoli. Breakfast: Whole wheat bread with butter and fresh apples. Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with a homemade cheddar cheese sauce, fresh cauliflower and oranges. Snack: Organic whole milk yogurt and jujubes from the Purple Porch!
Happy Friday! Our day has been fabulous.
We worked with our new balancing scale:
Created patterns with the Connect 4 game:
Painted:
Listened to stories:
And rode bikes!
In addition, I (Jessica) may have inadvertently sparked a renewed interested in knitting/crocheting after bringing in some of my personal crochet projects to work on during my break. Today friends were very dedicated in learning (or relearning) how to finger knit! They have all sorts of projects planned for next week.
Other friends also got in on the yarn action by making some braids.
We got really excited about our finished products!
Kindergarten: Today the kindergarteners worked on math FAB K.M.1: Make direct comparisons of the length, capacity, weight and temperature of objects and recognize which object is shorter, longer, taller, lighter, heavier, warmer, cooler, or holds more. We started with three different containers and made a prediction about how many cups of water we thought they would hold. Next, we poured water into the container and then the measuring cup. We had to look very close to see what line the water came up to! Then we recorded the actual capacity in our journals.
At the end, Elizabeth and Elliott were able to identify which containers held the most and least, and have a lot of fun while doing it.
Have a wonderful weekend! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with almond butter and grapes. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with hummus, fresh green beans and oranges. Snack: Cheddar block cheese and pretzels.
Rosemary and Anna asked to play with the pianos and xylophones this morning. Ruby saw what they were doing and decided to join.
Then everyone bundled up and went outside, where David lead a long line of bikes around the track! Rosemary caught a ride on a trailer of a Wee Friends’ bike.
Breakfast was Kashi Wheat Squares with bananas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat bread with hummus, oranges, bananas, and green beans. Afternoon snack was mozzarella string cheese and pears.
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Rosemary and Anna asked to play with the pianos and xylophones this morning. Ruby saw what they were doing and decided to join.
Then everyone bundled up and went outside, where David lead a long line of bikes around the track! Rosemary caught a ride on a trailer of a Wee Friends’ bike.
Breakfast was Kashi Wheat Squares with bananas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat bread with hummus, oranges, bananas, and green beans. Afternoon snack was mozzarella string cheese and pears.
Have a great weekend!
Amanda
Today, our friends were interested in playing with the stacking rainbow blocks. They loved looking through the colored inserts and giggling at each other. Rosemary did a great job of stacking them back in order of biggest to smallest when they were done.
Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and pears. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with chicken, grapes, and peas. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with cheese.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Today, our friends were interested in playing with the stacking rainbow blocks. They loved looking through the colored inserts and giggling at each other. Rosemary did a great job of stacking them back in order of biggest to smallest when they were done.
Breakfast was Whole Grain Cheerios and pears. Lunch consisted of whole grain brown rice with chicken, grapes, and peas. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with cheese.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Hello! Yesterday friends who went to the farm brought back a HUGE pile of corn. Thus this morning was a corn shuckin’ and kernel poppin’ extravaganza!
First, friends shucked the corn. Next, they experimented with different ways to get the kernels off the cob. For example, Jackson used a twisting motion, Elliott pushed the kernels off, and Maxwell pulled each kernel off individually before placing it in a pile.
Popping the kernels off corn cobs is a time-consuming and messy process, but we loved the end result: lots and lots of corn kernels! We already discussed the many things we want to do with the corn, such as put some kernels in a sensory bin, glue the kernels and make corn husk dolls.
Expect to see some corn creations coming home in the upcoming week!
Kindergarten: In kindergarten today, we played a version of Halloween bingo that focused on hearing/recognizing the beginning sound of words. Elizabeth helped create a spinner for the game and then the two friends spun away. After landing on a letter, they figured out its sound and searched their bingo board for an object that started with that sound. For example, after landing on “S”, Elizabeth and Elliott found a “ssssscarecrow” and “sssskeleton” to put their bingo markers on! This was a fun way to practice phonological awareness, a foundational skill for reading.
Have a wonderful afternoon! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Cucumber. Breakfast: Kix and grapes. Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with chicken, fresh broccoli/cauliflower and apples. Snack: Pistachios and wheat thins.
