Two new toys have been added to the Wee Wee classroom! They are Grimm’s Large Rainbow Conical and Triangular Towers. They are stacking/sorting toys that stimulate children visually and mentally.

Our friends used reasoning and creative thinking while developing motor skills and hand-eye coordination. These are also helpful tools to learn colors, size, and ordering!

Breakfast was Kix cereal and pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat English muffins with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese, strawberries, and cucumbers. Afternoon snack was graham crackers with cream cheese.

Have a great night!

Amanda

 

*Announcement: Group A [Elizabeth, Elliott, Emerson, Daniel, Jackson, Clara, Addi, Eren] will be going to the farm tomorrow, Wednesday October 7th.

Good afternoon!

This morning started with an exploration of the pegs. Friends used them in many different ways: sorting them by color, stacking a tower, fitting each peg into a hole and creating a pyramid with every single peg! Open ended materials like these, that can be used in multiple ways, engage friends of multiple ages. 

Outside today it was all about the slide and the bikes!

Friends experimented going down the slide in different ways: feet first, on their stomachs and fast or slow. Even a seemingly simple activity such as going down a slide helps children build body awareness and gross motor skills.

This morning friends waited patiently while the teachers got the bikes out of the garage:

Then they got to riding!

So many friends wanted to ride today, there were some traffic jams!

But all that exercise was good for our bodies and helped us concentrate during group time after lunch. We love hearing stories about fall!

Kindergarten: Today with swimming lessons, Elliott and Elizabeth completed their kindergarten work separately, each working on a habitrail log of one of their creations. Elliott chose to work with the tiles and created “a wall with steps” while Elizabeth recorded her work with blocks, animals and the farm house. The practice of drawing from real life objects helps improve observational skills and supports the notion that their work is important and deserves recording!

Have a wonderful Tuesday! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Kix and fresh strawberries. Lunch: Whole wheat English muffins with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese, fresh green beans and kiwi/oranges. Snack: Graham crackers and mozzarella string cheese.  

  

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Happy Monday!

Pumpkins and bugs. That was our focus this morning. We had a parent AND a teacher bring in small pumpkins for our friends to decorate!

We had a discussion about small, medium, and big. We used multiple pumpkins as our objects. Friends put the pumpkins next to each other and a conversation was had about the characteristics between the pumpkins.

 

Each child chose their pumpkin and the color they wanted to use to paint their pumpkin. The end result was very individualized to each child .

While outside, we were SUPER focused on bugs. Finding them. Caring for them. Creating a habitat for them.

Wee Sprouts-fresh green beans. Breakfast-whole wheat bread with butter and fresh pink pearl apples. Lunch-whole wheat pasta with chicken, oranges, and broccoli/cauliflower. PM snack-organic whole milk yogurt and fresh apples.

Have a terrific evening.

-Mindy

It was a musical Monday morning at Wee Wee!

Anna and Rosemary tested what sounds they could produce from the wall xylophone when they hit the different pegs with a drum stick.

Then friends went outside to ride bikes and race them down the hill!

Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with chicken, apples, and green beans. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and apples.

Have a good night!

Amanda

It was a musical Monday morning at Wee Wee!

Anna and Rosemary tested what sounds they could produce from the wall xylophone when they hit the different pegs with a drum stick.

Then friends went outside to ride bikes and race them down the hill!

Breakfast was whole wheat toast with butter and pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with chicken, apples, and green beans. Afternoon snack was organic whole milk yogurt and apples.

Have a good night!

Amanda

Hello, everyone!

Enjoy some of our favorite photos taken throughout the day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast was Kix cereal with bananas. Lunch consisted of rice with cheese, pears, and corn. Afternoon snack was mozzarella string cheese with kiwi, bananas, and pears.

Have a great weekend! We’ll see you Monday.

Amanda

This morning we traveled to Springhope Farm to pick apples. Enjoy these pictures from our trip!

Our first stop was to watch the apple cleaning machine in action. The little apples get sorted from the big ones, are polished and then dried.

Next, each friend got an apple picking bag of their very own.

We saw a tractor in the barn and then got to ride on another one out to the apple trees.

It was a fun ride on the big tractor!

We heard about all the different apple varieties and then got to picking.

We filled our bags to the brim!

Look at all them apples!

We were glad so many parents and grandparents were able to join us!

Enjoy the apples and have a great weekend! –Jessica

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter, hard boiled eggs and bananas. Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with quinoa and chicken, carrots and fresh pears. Snack: Honey crisp apples fresh from the orchard with a peanut butter/organic whole milk yogurt dipping sauce!

Franklin worked on his hand-eye coordination by playing with one of the object permanence boxes!

Anna has been all about baby dolls this week! Outside or inside, they’re her go to toy.

Rosemary was a great helper when she picked out story books for her friends to enjoy.

Breakfast was Kashi’s Blueberry Clusters cereal with pears. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortilla with black beans and cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was graham crackers with hardboiled eggs.

Have a good evening!

Amanda

Happy 1st Day of October!

This morning started off with a group meeting to predict what was in this large package that arrived at Wee Friends. After some interesting ideas, ranging from “bananas” to “bricks,” we discovered it was a pump for our bicycles!

We took turns pumping air and feeling it on our hands:

Afterwards, we had another community matter to discuss: what to do with our pumpkins?! The teachers narrowed down our ideas from yesterday to three options we could vote on: Carve It, Pound It, and Bake Seeds. After some time to think, friends came up to graph their vote.

In the end we decided we could do all three options, pound one pumpkin and then carve and bake the seeds of the other pumpkin. As one friend pointed out, in order to bake the seeds, we’d have to cut it anyways! Because pounding the pumpkin got the most votes (eight) we started with that work.

We love choosing where to hammer in our golf tees!

Outside, the fallen leaves have proven to be very interesting to the Wee Frienders! Filling trucks with leaves, making leaf piles and sweeping leaves have been popular choices this week.

Kindergarten: Today Elizabeth and Elliott were introduced to the symbols for “less than” and “greater than” through a game involving an alligator/shark. Although learning about these symbols were not specifically mentioned in this week’s math FAB, the kindergarteners have been doing so well identifying greater than and less than values Jessica wanted to give them a challenge.

Have a wonderful afternoon on this sunny day! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Red and green bell peppers. Breakfast: Whole Grain Cheerios and fresh strawberries. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with turkey lunch meat and fresh cauliflower and grapes. Snack: Snap pea crisps and peanuts.

What a beautiful day to be outside!

Our friends are especially loving all the fallen leaves available to play with!

Breakfast was whole grain oatmeal with bananas. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs with whole wheat flat bread, strawberries, and cucumbers. Afternoon snack was hummus and wheat crackers.

Have a great night!

Amanda