Good Afternoon!
Wee Sprouts: Red, yellow and orange peppers. Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal and fresh blackberries. Lunch: Farm fresh eggs and cheddar cheese quesadillas on whole wheat tortillas with cucumbers and strawberries/bananas. Snack: pumpkin seeds and blue corn chips.
Have a great night!
Please note: A student from IUSB, Ali, will be assisting us in the Wee Wee classroom every Tuesday for the next ten weeks. She is striving for her Early Education degree.
Also, since the weather is changing, please bring in at least two Fall outfits for spare clothes. Thanks!
Our friends played with the object permanence boxes today after snack. By putting the balls and coins through the openings, the children were developing hand, wrist, and finger control.
And then Anna started a dance party! Anna loves to dance and her friends are happy to join her.
Breakfast was whole grain oatmeal. Lunch consisted of farm fresh eggs on whole wheat tortilla, strawberries, and cucumbers. Afternoon snack was wheat crackers with cream cheese.
Have a great night!
Amanda
Rosemary was interested in reading books this morning. She picked Llama Llama Zippity Zoom from the shelf, showed it to Miss Marty, and said, “Llama zip!”
David pulled himself up to the art table to make colorful pictures with his friends.
Ruby investigated the different materials to be found in our backyard.
Breakfast was Kix cereal and strawberries. Lunch consisted of toasted whole wheat bagels with cheddar cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was Tami’s homemade (fresh Purple Porch) strawberry whole wheat oatmeal cookies.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Rosemary was interested in reading books this morning. She picked Llama Llama Zippity Zoom from the shelf, showed it to Miss Marty, and said, “Llama zip!”
David pulled himself up to the art table to make colorful pictures with his friends.
Ruby investigated the different materials to be found in our backyard.
Breakfast was Kix cereal and strawberries. Lunch consisted of toasted whole wheat bagels with cheddar cheese, bananas, and peas. Afternoon snack was Tami’s homemade (fresh Purple Porch) strawberry whole wheat oatmeal cookies.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Hello! On the third swim lesson of the session, we finally remembered to bring a camera. Here are a few assorted pictures from today’s swimming lessons.
Friends started with some bobs to warm-up, then it was off to jump in!
Here Eren and Clara work on kicking their legs:
Naia and Addi carefully listen to instructions from their swim teacher:
And after class is over, friends help out by putting their equipment away!
Kindergarten: Today Elliott and other friends worked on one of the math FABs for this week, K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison, including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than. We played a game outside using one of the materials around us: bark! Friends rolled a die, counted the dots and placed the same number of bark pieces on one side of the paper. They repeated the process on the other side of the paper and then compared which side had more or less!
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Kashi’s Cinnamon Harvest cereal and fresh strawberries. Lunch: Whole wheat bread with melted cheddar cheese, tomatoes/carrots and apples. Snack: Homemade (fresh Purple Porch) strawberry whole wheat oatmeal cookies and Colby Jack cheese slices.
*Special Announcement: Former WF teacher Laurie Bulaoro, founder/producing director of Youth On Stage, will be presenting the final showing of The Children of South Bend this Sunday, September 27th at 2:00 pm at The History Museum in downtown South Bend! Don’t miss out on this show, which features Wee Friend alumni as performers!
For more information check out: www.youthonstage1.org
Have a great afternoon. –Jessica
I hope everyone had a great weekend! Here’s some of our favorite photos from today.
Breakfast was whole wheat bagels with butter and bananas. Lunch consisted of whole wheat pasta with black beans, oranges, and mixed vegetables. Afternoon snack was string cheese and strawberries.
Have a good night!
Amanda
Today while our younger friends were at the farm, our older friends worked with the glittery sequins and glue. This was a popular activity last week and friends are still thoroughly interested and engaged in this work.
After this sensory/fine motor skills/art work, friends helped clean off the tables and get things ready for lunch. Several friends brought lunch over to WWF while the others put out the cots for naptime. They were great helpers!
The rest of our day has been spent mostly outside, enjoying this beautiful weather!
Have a wonderful afternoon! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Toasted whole wheat bagels with butter and fresh oranges. Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with black beans, fresh green beans and watermelon. Snack: Organic whole milk yogurt and fresh apples.
Hello! It was an absolutely gorgeous day to spend some time at the farm. Our younger friends were so excited to head out into the sunshine and fresh air.
Our farm day started with Miss Charlotte showing us different kinds of seeds: morning glory, marigold and asparagus.
Next, we visited with the baby goats! Although at first they were a little intimidating to some friends, after some encouragement many friends pet the goat’s soft fur.
Miss Charlotte and Miss Tami then brought over some chickens. Miss Charlotte showed us the chicken’s wing. We enjoyed hearing the loud noises the chickens made!
There was also a TRACTOR at the farm! Friends had a blast climbing up on their own, sitting on the tractor seat and grabbing the wheel.
Next, we took a walk through the field. We discovered lots and lots of milkweed beetles on a plant and watched them crawl. Miss Charlotte also showed us how wonderful the bee balm plant smells.
One of our favorite activities to do at the farm is RUN! The wide open spaces at the farm are perfect for moving our bodies as fast as we can. There was lots of starting and stopping and yelling and joyous laughter.
We had a great time at the farm! –Jessica
Hello! Today has been a great day full of exploration and learning.
This morning started off with a reading of Go, Shapes, Go! by Denise Fleming. After listening to the story, friends were invited to the round table to work with the same shapes from the story. Following the directions in the book, they recreated a monkey!
The light table was a popular spot today. Friends spent time sorting, stacking and classifying jewels into different groups.
Much of the class was drawn in by Miss Melinda’s reading of Goodnight, Gorilla. Friends had to pay close attention and use watchful eyes to find the mouse and banana on each page!
Outside friends requested the chalk. What started as a normal chalk exploration changed when some rain water was spilled on a friend’s chalk drawing! This prompted the teachers to bring out the water spray bottles and continue to support friends’ experimentation with chalk and water.
It was a hit! Many friends patiently waited their turn for a spray bottle. In the meantime, many felt wet chalk with their hands or drew with wet chalk pieces. Other friends tried to create a “chalk river,” noticing that the water flowed down the hill.
Kindergarten: Today Elliott and Elizabeth spent a lot of time creating a structure back in habitrail. They were invited to record their work in a habitrail log. We missed getting a picture of the actual creation, so their drawings will speak for themselves! This was a “house boat in a storm” and “a boat”.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend! –Jessica
Wee Sprouts: Green beans and carrots. Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with almond butter and fresh blueberries. Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread with hummus, fresh broccoli/cauliflower and watermelon. Snack: Cheddar block cheese and pretzels.
Happy Friday!
Friends were invited into the kitchen where they worked in their journals and later construction paper. Children were given paper and markers with no directions. The free range of things that friends colored and drew was extremely varied.
For breakfast, children had rice cakes with sweet pea butter and pears. Lunch consisted of hummus on tortillas, peas, and fresh plums. PM snack was string cheese and blueberries.
Have a terrific weekend!
