Happy Friday!

We enjoyed our first full week back of this year! No delays. No closings. It was awesome to have consistency this week. Now if the snow could just stop coming .

Friends read stories, participated in habitrail play, and manipulated magnatiles. However, we were rather lethargic. Friends were pretty low key this morning and even into this afternoon. It was a long but good week!

Our baby friends LOVED reading stories today. Someone gave Henri a book and he started bouncing for joy!

We’re hoping to see the warmer temperatures that they’re calling for next week so we can maybe think about going outside! Wonder where all of this snow if going to go?

For breakfast, children had kix and oranges. Lunch consisted of whole grain rice with cheese and beef, peas, and oranges. PM snack was graham crackers and hard boiled eggs.

Have a GREAT weekend! See you Monday!

-Mindy

“What am I creating?” asked Lisa. “It’s an optical course!” shouted Clara.

We talked about the Olympics this morning and Lisa created an optical course for friends to navigate. Each of them received the gold, upon completion of the course.

Afterwards, we created a message board with the questions: What type of athlete are you?” We had everything from ballerinas to boxers.

In light of our indoor day, we are keeping our friends moving and groovin’. “If You’re Happy and You Know It” got their bodies jumping, clapping, shaking and hopping.

Hope everyone has a terrific and warm weekend.

Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Kix and orange slices. Lunch: Cheesy brown rice with beef, peas and bananas. Snack: Pretzels and cheese sticks.

Good Afternoon!

Here are a few pictures from today!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and oranges. Lunch consisted of egg casserole with ham and cheese, peas, and apples. PM snack was rice cakes with cream cheese.

Hope everyone stays warm!

What do we do when one friend gives another friend unsolicited, unfriendly feedback? 

We teach peace. Pace. Mir. And Lisa did just that. She gathered friends close to her and talked peace. She read Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz. She role played with friends about what they might say/do when another friend shares unkind words. She invited friends to offer kind words to one another. We’ve talked about what an angry face looks like and what an angry body looks like. We’ve talked about what to do with our anger when we feel it. We make our way back to making peace.

In other parts of the classroom, we used poker chips to determine Math FAB K.1.8: using, appropriately, the words: one/many and none/all. We also worked with Montessori beads.

 

We worked, played, climbed, glued, painted, puzzled and cared for one another (and our baby dolls), beside one another… with peace as our mission.

And our Wee Friends made it happen.

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Cereal and apple slices. Lunch: Egg casserole, peas and bananas. Snack: Yogurt and orange slices.

Peace Out.

Laurie

 

The new blue bus session for WF begins this Monday, Feb 10.  There will be a sign up sheet in the doorway to check “yes” or “no” for your child’s participation in this 7 week session. 

The cost of this session is $70.00. 

If your child is new to the blue bus, you will also need to fill out Jennifer’s Registration form, which will be located above the sign in sheets. 

We also have a make-up day on Friday, Feb 14th for this past session.  Sorry it’s so confusing, but the snow days really messed up the schedule!

Tami

Good Afternoon!

As a group, we had a great day! New friends are getting acclimated to the environment, teachers, and friends. Our older friends are continuing to grow in their development. The growth that children make day to day is astounding. Children are truly amazing.

We spent the day in the gross motor area. Our older friends help the babies get toys that they may want or teach them how to do something such as rocking on the gross motor tool.

Friends try new things everyday such as Lucy trying to get up the slide. She tried multiple times with a smile on her face.

Our newest friend Henri is filling our house with even more smiles and laughter.

We helped one another with various activities today such as building a train track.

Our baby friends are growing way too fast! Just in a few short months, they will all turn one year old (HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!)

We take on various roles throughout the day such as handyman, doctor, and chef. At the end of the day, we have the best job of all….being a kid!

For breakfast, children had malt-o-meal with pears. Lunch consisted of soy butter on tortillas, apples, and peas. PM snack was string cheese and graham crackers.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

We are looking,each day, for an opportunity to get the kids outside! We assess the temperature, starting about 10:30am, and we look for “real feel” to be a number we think kids will be comfortable playing in. We take into account sunshine and wind! Unfortunately, we didn’t make it out this am!

HAPPY BIG THREE LEO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Math FAB K.1.17 and K.1.8: Find a number that is more/less than a number, up to 10: Use correctly the words one/many, none/some/all, more/less and most/least.

Many friends worked on Leo’s Big Birthday Card.

Other friends used a variety of math manipulatives and explored the above FABS.

Elliott experimented with a launch pad.

Clara puzzled and matched rhymes. She’s also been belting out     “C-L-A-R-A!” We followed her lead and cheered the letters that make up other friend’s names.

A group of friends played Maleficent under the habitrail. When casting the roles, the witch was said to possess “a black heart because she’s a witch”. We talked about the color black and sad and angry emotions.

And we celebrated Leo, in large and small groups, with his favorite toys and his birthday kazoo.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Cereal and raisins. Lunch: Whole wheat tortillas with peanut butter, peas and pears. Snack: Birthday cupcakes and apple slices.

Hope you’ve had a terrific day and here comes the sun.

Laurie

Good Afternoon!

The morning crew started off their day manipulating stackable blocks. Henri enjoyed taking two blocks and banging them together. Saskia stacked them one by one while Tate laughed when the tower got knocked down .

Saskia, Eren, and Nora played with play-doh in the kitchen. They used hammers, rolling pins, and their fingers to investigate it.

Eren noticed that there were sparkles in the play-doh!

For breakfast, children had toast with butter and oranges. Lunch consisted of turkey and cheese slices, bread, black beans, and pears. PM snack was cottage cheese and pretzels.

Have a fantastic snowy night!

Good Afternoon! Unfortunately at our outdoor time, the temp was ONLY 12 degrees.  Major disappointment for all.  However, we easily stayed busy in a group project creating a beautiful classroom yarn/heart piece of art, exploring more bat concepts and learning about Sloane’s new interest….clouds, in addition to all the regular work we do daily.

For those who haven’t been watching the weather, there is a Winter Weather Advisory for our entire area from Tuesday to Wednesday afternoon.  More snow.  Oh yeah. 

There are still a few families not in our text service.  It’s wickedly easy to get notified immediately by text for any closings or delays we may have.  Just send @weefr to 574-310-8161.  You will be prompted to text your name and then you are all set.  It will save me panicked phone calls to people who aren’t signed up when we have a sudden change of plans like a week ago Monday and I’m trying to reach multiple people before they leave their house.

VALENTINE’S DAY 2014, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH

Love is in the air!  On Valentine’s Day, children are welcome to bring in valentine’s for their friends and teachers.  Here’s some ground rules:

• Keep it simple! Don’t be up until 2:00 a.m. the night before creating stunning scrapbooking worthy valentines unless you love doing this and find it a joy.  The kids are very happy with any valentine that comes their way, including those store bought ones.
• Please don’t “up the ante” by bringing high dollar or elaborate valentines.  If you do choose a valentine with candy, keep it small.
• All valentines and candy will be sent home with your child to enjoy with you.
• Feel free to just label the “from” part of the valentine and your child can then just put one in each valentine bag.

Children in our WF classroom:

1. Finn
2. Elizabeth
3. Marta
4. Leo
5. Clara
6. Zoi
7. Max
8. Elliott
9. Emma
10. Sophia
11. Daniel
12. Eve
13. Sloane
14. Eleanor
15. Owen
16. Aislinn
17. Cassie
18. Lea (We’d like to send an envelope of love to our two friends who moved on in December)
19. Marina

Teachers: Laurie, Lisa, Melinda, and Tami

Breakfast was whole wheat toast and orange slices.  Lunch was ham and cheese on wheat, green beans, and applesauce.  Wee Sprouts are cukes.  And snack will be peanut butter rice cakes.

Stay warm!

Tami

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! We were so happy to see the sunshine today! We have missed it!

Eren started off playing magnatiles in the kitchen. All of his friends wanted to join him.

Our Monday was full of smiles and laughter.

The gross motor area was the happening place to be this afternoon. Lucy had a blast going up through the habitrail.

Nora and Saskia soon joined her! Lucy and Nora were laughing together. Nora started jumping and Lucy tried to imitate .

Eren got out the sensory circles. Friends took turns stepping on them while feeling the different patterns with their feet and hands as well!

We ended our afternoon with a snack! Friends made sure to get it just right.

For breakfast, children had cheerios and oranges. Lunch consisted of homemade macaroni and cheese with whole grain noodles, mixed veggies, and pears. PM snack was cheddar cheese and whole wheat crackers.

Have a great night!

-Mindy