*Tami is planning a trip to the farm tomorrow with our older Wee Friends: Elizabeth, Emerson, Elliott, Sophia, Daniel, Sloane, Eleanor, Owen and Aislinn. Parents! Please dress your Wee Friend in layers, wear play clothes and shoes that can get dirty. Provide rubber boots, or we can offer friends boots from our large collection. Your Fall 2014 permission slip covers this trip.

*Also, if your Wee Friend brought in their own snow pants this winter, please feel free to take them home now. We think it is safe to say there should be no more snow!

Have a great afternoon!

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Blueberry Oat Flakes and strawberries. Lunch: Melted cheddar and ham on whole wheat tortillas, pear slices and pea pods. Snack: Cheese sticks and fresh pineapple.

Today was the start of the next Blue Bus session! Please note that this session, all classes begin at 9:15 am. We welcomed two new friends onto the Blue Bus today: Tate and Lucy!

The rest of our Monday has been full of flying airplanes:

We wrote the names of people in our family and played musical instruments:

We enjoyed the glorious outdoors:

And so much more! Happy Monday –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Our homemade pickles! Breakfast: Toasted whole wheat bagels with butter and bananas. Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with black beans, fresh carrots, and orange slices. Snack: Whole milk yogurt and fresh Purple Porch strawberries.

Happy Friday!

Here are a few pictures from today!

 

For breakfast, children had eggs with cheese and banana. Lunch consisted of cheese tortillas, cucumbers, and pears. PM snack was string cheese and pretzels.

Have a terrific weekend!

How to Taste a Pickle Popsicle

Step 1. Get them out of the freezer

Step 2. Taste them

Step 3. Make a funny face

Step 4. Immediately go drink some water

Step 5. Share what you think about pickle popsicles!

As you can see, some friends did not care for the very strong sweet/sour taste of the pickle popsicles. On the other hand, some friends stayed around to drink the juice:

Yum?!

Have a great weekend! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Pea pods. Breakfast: Malt-o-Meal and bananas. Lunch: Cheddar cheese quesadillas on whole wheat tortillas, cucumbers/cauliflower, and fresh fruit salad of pears, apples and bananas. Snack: Colby jack cheese and whole wheat crackers.

Hello!

We moved our bodies around the environment this morning. Anna has been walking more and more. After taking many steps consecutively, she always shows her excitement!

Friends worked with the blocks and gross motor soft stars. Thankfully, we were able to get outside for a little bit this morning before the rain started!

Rosemary grabbed the yellow ball and threw it down the hill. She ran after it and did it over and over!

Lucy used pebbles to make pancakes for her friends! Tate has officially mastered the log house! Yay!

For breakfast, children had kix and pears. Lunch consisted of brown rice with beef, broccoli, and oranges. PM snack was raisins and colby block cheese.

Have a terrific evening!

Will it sink or float? Science discovery with different objects.

“And we’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo….” and how we got there this morning was the big work: how to build the car, who is old enough to drive, what we might see when we get there.

What REALLY happens when you don’t cover your sneeze? A water bottle sneeze-a-thon science experiment explored this idea.

And lots of other stuff. Questions posed. Questions answered. Ideas sprouting. Some grow and some dry up in a second. A great Wee day.

Wee Sprouts: Grape tomatoes. Breakfast: Kix and strawberries. Lunch: Brown rice with beef, fresh broccoli and oranges and bananas. Snack: Apple slices with peanut butter.

Good Afternoon!

It was a cloudy morning but that didn’t stop us from making awesome drawings on the sidewalk with chalk! Lucy and Tate both grabbed a piece of chalk and headed towards the sidewalk. Lucy let everyone know that she had green!

We love being able to interact with the Wee Friends while outside. Friends are able to form bonds and relationships with their older friends which is a GREAT social aspect of the multi-age setup.

Waffle blocks were a big attraction this afternoon. Lucy said, “I build castle!” while Tate put multiple pink blocks together. We talked about the different colored blocks that were available to build with. There seems to be an overwhelming number of pink blocks compared to the other colors!

For breakfast, children had english muffins with cream cheese and strawberries. Lunch consisted of chicken salad sandwiches, strawberries, and snap peas. PM snack was pretzels and raisins.

Have a great night!

*Reminder: If you haven’t signed up for Blue Bus yet and would like to join, please do! There is a sign-up sheet on the front porch. The next session will run for six weeks from Monday April 13 through May 18th.

 

This morning some friends were eager to share how they covered their hands in chalk. This naturally led to a conversation about the unique nature of hands and how there is NO ONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD with your exact fingerprints. This reminded me of one of my favorite poems I’d like to share:

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it—I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.

          

I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts.

 

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know—but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.

     

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

    

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me.

   

I am me, and I am Okay.” -Virginia Satir

To all our wonderful Wee Friends—Wee love you!

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Rice cakes with peanut butter and pear slices. Lunch: Homemade chicken salad sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh tomatoes, and bananas. Snack: Hummus and blue corn chips.

Good Afternoon!

Tate and Rosemary worked with babies this morning. Tate enjoyed feeding and burping the baby. We’re working on using soft touches as a whole group. Lately, we’ve been talking about what nice touches look like and practicing on the babies is a perfect activity!

Children took at the easel to paint. Even before breakfast was served, Tate asked for painting so that’s what we did! Friends got full bellies and we headed to the kitchen for a little sensory action! Lucy was vocal about what colors she wanted to paint with.

After naptime, music was turned on and friends requested musical instruments. Between the maracas and drums, it was lively in the establishment .

For breakfast, children had chex and banana. Lunch consisted of whole grain bagel pizzas, strawberries, and corn. PM snack was whole wheat crackers and cream cheese.

Have a great night!

The rain threw us a curveball. So we filled our morning with straight lines to learning (science experiment resulting in homemade moon sand); zigzag routes to understanding (“That’s MY toy!”); and finally, curvy, swervy lines to fun (which route is gets you to the end more quickly? I’ll time you!”).

We caught the curveball and shouted “GAME ON!”

Happy rainy, curvy, zigzaggy day. –Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Red bell peppers. Breakfast: Chex cereal and raisins. Lunch: Homemade cheese pizza on whole wheat bagels, apple slices and steamed dill carrots. Snack: Coconut bread and cheese stix.