Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Most of us came back with a little runny nose and cough. For that reason, it was a pretty low key morning full of stories and building with blocks.

Rosemary and Anna worked together to get the waffle blocks out. Rosemary looked at two blocks that were different: one with a hole in the middle and one that was solid without any holes.

For breakfast, children had eggs with oranges. AM snack was corn. Lunch consisted of spaghetti with marinara sauce, apples, and broccoli. PM snack was yogurt and crackers.

Have a wonderful night.

 

Hey, old friend
What d’ya say, old friend?
Are you okay, old friend?
Are we, are we unique?
Time goes by
Everything else keeps changing
You and I, we can
Continue next week.
Most friends fade
Or they don’t make the grade
New ones are quickly made
And in a pinch, sure, they’ll do.
But us, old friend
What’s to discuss, old friend?
Here’s to us, who’s like us?
Darn few.

-Stephen Sondheim

Is there anything that compares to the reunion of good friends? The Blue Bus comes close. Math FAB K. 1.5 Divide shapes into equal parts? Ummm….not even close.

Finn. Finn is in the house. And that’s all there is to say today.

 

Wee Sprouts: Carrots.

Breakfast: Buttered whole wheat bread with orange slices.

Lunch:  Whole wheat spaghetti with marinara sauce, fresh pineapple and apple slices, and fresh broccoli

Snack: Whole milk organic yogurt and a Purple Porch fruit TBD after our delivery!

Happy Friday!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and banana. Lunch consisted of turkey and melted cheese on flatbread, mixed vegetables, and blueberries. PM snack was crackers and cheddar cheese.

Have a terrific weekend!

Our environment is based upon the idea of choice. For much of the day, friends are free to move from area to area as they please. It is always interesting to see where friends choose to spend their time.

Today, some friends spent time in the back constructing a house, building with Legos and driving cars.

                       

Other friends hung baby clothes on the clothesline in our housekeeping area, practicing opening and closing those tricky clothespins!

And still other friends sat at the island trying to master straw weaving, manipulating yarn over and under, over and under straws.

Yet no matter what area of the house we choose to play and work in we are always learning, exploring and growing.

Have a great weekend! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Malt-O-Meal and raisins. Lunch: Whole wheat flatbread quesadillas, mixed vegetables and apple slices. Snack: String cheese and whole grain Goldfish.

Happy Thursday!

A few smiles to brighten your day.

For breakfast, children had Chex and oranges. We LOVED our oranges today. AM snack was corn. Lunch consisted of brown rice with black beans, banana, and cauliflower. PM snack was blackberries and cheddar cheese.

Have a terrific evening.

Hello! Here’s a quick reminder that the WF Annual Conferences will be Friday, March 6, 2015. Wee Friends will be closed this day. Tami will make sign up sheets available mid-February.

Clothespins, cookbooks and dominoes dominated our learning environment today. IN/OUT, UP/DOWN, AROUND were some of the concepts we explored. Numeral identification and color recognition were others. Add pinching, grasping, pulling (not each other)and choosing and we cooked up a pretty interesting (and happy) morning. Have a great day.-Laurie

Wee Sprouts: PPC Cucumbers. Breakfast: Kix and pear slices. Lunch: Brown rice with black beans , PPC cauliflower and bananas. Snack: Peanuts and apple slices.

Good Afternoon!

The pictures on this blog are from Monday and Tuesday.

For breakfast, children had cinnamon toast with blueberries. Lunch consisted of egg casserole with potatoes and cheese, pears, and whole wheat bread with butter. PM snack was bananas and string cheese.

Have a great evening!

It’s 7:45am and WF is ready for friends. “Let’s continue our tally work.” thinks the teacher. “Hmmmmm….could this learning experience be a bit more inviting?” she wonders. “Ponies! Yes. That will definitely bring them to the table. Bright, sparkling, purple ponies.” Waiting. Waiting. No one touches the ponies. Almost no one touches the tallies. The Power of the Ponies has failed. But it did induce a good laugh. Onward we went to creating a compass and an uppercase/lowercase spinning game. Morphing to our WF interest and direction. With or without the ponies….we press on to the Light of Learning.

 

Have a great day. – Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole grain rice cakes with peanut butter and strawberries. Lunch: Farm fresh egg casserole with cheese and potatoes, pear slices, and whole wheat flatbread. Snack: Refried black beans and crackers.

 

Happy Tuesday!

We’re having some technical difficulties with the camera and the computer reading the pictures. Hope to have this resolved soon .

For breakfast, children had cheerios and oranges. Lunch consisted of hummus on whole wheat bread, broccoli, and blueberries. PM snack was string cheese and pretzels.

Have a great night!

***BLUE BUS SIGN UP HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH THIS WED 1/13/15.

We currently have only 3 children enrolled for this session.  Our minimum class number is 6 children for the Blue Bus to continue to come to Wee Friends.  So, if you are interested, you will need to sign up today or tomorrow.  Otherwise, if not enough families are interested in this extracurricular activity, we will take a break from it and check back in the spring.  The cost is $80 for 8 weeks.  The class is Mondays 9:00-9:30.

The Excitement of New Materials

Tuesday morning started off with a flurry of excitement. New Legos! Friends helped Melinda sort a huge batch of building blocks into various bins. Whether it’s new materials or simply newly rediscovered materials, we are always eager to see what innovative things friends will do.

                                          

Materials used in a new way or in a different setting are also exciting! This morning Laurie led friends through a counting, adding and subtracting activity with dominos and dot painters at the art table.

                                         

A recently discovered tool from the basement are paper punchers. We practiced identifying shapes, threading paper and then pressing down (hard!) to punch. We love collecting our tiny shapes in envelopes to share at home.

 

Just because there are new materials or tools out and about at Wee Friends, it doesn’t mean we forget our primary pastime: playing with and enjoying the company of our friends.

                                                                                       

Hope you have a great day.

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Red bell peppers and carrots. Breakfast: Cheerios and pears. Lunch: Hummus sandwiches on whole wheat bread, broccoli, and orange slices. Snack: Cheese and graham crackers.