Happy Friday!

Friends were very excited to get back on the Blue Bus today! They were also excited to count hearts. With numbered paper hearts, friends added and subtracted. Then they added dice. They added the numbers on the dice. They found the hearts that matched those numbers.

Santa had an evolving crew of elves making presents for his sack. Practically speaking, friends spent huge amounts of time cutting with scissors.

Tami read Boom Chicka Rock by John Archambault. Friends gathered around her to listen to a story, sing along AND count the numbers on the face of a clock. Later, they found an image of the clock on the reading center wall. They matched the book clock with the wall clock.

Friends were leaders and followers, dancers and athletes, architects and mathematicians, moms, dads, sisters, brothers and babies. A great way to end our week back.

Happy Friday and have a terrific weekend.

Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese and pear slices. Lunch: Hummus on whole wheat bread, mixed veggies and pear slices. Snack: Goldfish and bananas.

Happy Thursday!

We spent our morning getting to know our newest two year old friend Nora! With the travel and weather delays, Nora and her mom, Nicole, made it to Wee Wee today! She’ll have her first full day on Monday. We’re so excited to welcome Sean, Nicole, and Nora to our Wee Wee family!

Between pulling ourselves up onto furniture, jumping on our bottoms in a play block, and getting in tune with the fish, our baby friends had a fantastic day!

Eren and Emma took their new friend Nora into the kitchen where they colored, playing with magnatiles, and did peg work.

This afternoon, Eve came over to say hi to her friends and sister Maya. Eve is transitioning this week to Wee Friends! We enjoyed seeing her and her BIG smile!

For breakfast, children had whole grain toast with butter and cinnamon along with banana. Lunch consisted of whole grain noodles with marinara and turkey sausage, mixed vegetables, and banana. PM snack was cottage cheese and pretzels.

Our gentlemen of the class say, “bye!”

There were lots of ideas and interests being developed today. Fireflies for one. Yesterday, Lisa read a book that mentioned a firefly. The kids were captivated by this tiny magical insect. Today, a small group worked together to learn the different parts of a firefly, especially the part that makes it light up!

Puzzles, princess drawings and Magna Tiles were other activities that filled the imaginations of our friends.

We filled bins with snow and added Little People. We also squirted water color and sprinkled sparkles into the snow. We asked questions as friends explored the textures and temperatures: “Is it hot or cold? Soft or hard? Slimy or fluffy?”

The Polar Express was built under the habitrail. We explored the word “polar” and identified other words that are coupled with it (and why).

A small group of friends used magnifying glasses to study other kinds of bugs and insects. 

They organized a very practical and comfortable work table for their study.

And a few friends danced The Nutcracker. To the Nutcracker music. They described, at length, characters in the story and which WF was which character.

Our older friends who meet for large group after lunch began The Magic School Bus study. As I write, they are creating their own magic school bus out of cardboard boxes, markers and glue.

Princesses and fireflies, trains and buses. Let’s see where our Wee minds take us.

Have a terrific day!

Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole wheat toast and cinnamon. Lunch: Pasta with ground turkey and marinara, mixed veggies and orange slices. Snack: Cottage cheese and pineapple.

 

 

 

There were lots of ideas being developed today. Fireflies for one. Yesterday, Lisa read a book that mentioned a firefly. The kids were captivated by this tiny magical insect. Today, a small group worked together to learn the different parts of a firefly, especially the part that makes it light up!

Puzzles, princess drawings and Magna Tiles were other activities that filled the imaginations of our friends.

 

We filled bins with snow and added Little People. We also squirted water color and sprinkled sparkles into the snow. We asked questions as friends explored the textures and temperatures: “Is it hot or cold? Soft or hard? Slimy or fluffy?”

The Polar Express was built under the habitrail. We explored the word “polar” and identified other words that are coupled with it (and why).

A small group of friends used magnifying glasses to study other kinds of bugs and insects.

 

They organized a very practical and comfortable work table for their study.

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

We all got back in the swing of things today! Everyone had a lovely two and a half weeks to spend at home with family but it’s back to Wee Wee World .

Eren and Saskia played together all morning. Reading books and playing in the gross motor area filled their day!

Our three little friends came back and acted as if they were never gone! They’re getting teeth, moving quicker, and growing faster than we can blink our eyes.

For breakfast, children had cheerios and banana. Lunch consisted of cheese tortillas, cucumber, and banana. PM snack was yogurt and animal crackers.

Have a great evening!

Welcome back Wee Friends and Families!

Today, we welcome Eve into the older classroom!

We eased into our day hearing lots of stories about stay at home days and exciting things in their lives.

Max made it to # 38 in The Magic Tree House book series. Owen played store. Aislinn got a new Lego set and Marta ate octopus at a Japanese grocery. Sloane joined the “big kid group” and Leo slipped right into his WF house slippers. Elliott told us about how his daddy put the Christmas tree outside and it stood straight up, all by itself, like a real tree. Elizabeth got a new hat and gloves and still loves Sleeping Beauty. At WF, Finn gets to stay up now, instead of napping. Clara hung ornaments with her mom and Ellie’s new princess shampoo doesn’t make her head itch.

Friends jumped into their favorite places to learn and play. Lisa offered an observation/listening game in which friends listened to an object move around the inside of a box. She showed them a tray with the missing toy and they had to guess which toy they heard.

A stage was built for The Nutcracker and Elizabeth and Sloane cast the ballet and then danced it. Sadly, our Nutcracker recording was not available, so they settled for a synthesized Beatle’s medley.

The Blue Bus will be here on Friday morning.

It’s good to see everyone again! Here’s to the start of a fantastic 2014!!!

Laurie

Wee Sprouts: Snap peas. Breakfast: Kashi and bananas. Lunch: Melted cheddar on whole wheat tortillas, cucumbers and bananas. Snack: Yogurt and Goldfish

Hello All!

We will be opening tomorrow despite the closing of area schools. (If you have signed up for the text alerts, you knew this around 5:00.) The schools are remaining closed because of the snowy/icy roads.  Everyone use great caution to get to WF!

The roads to WF in Riverpark are cleared, but slippery since it is too cold for salt to work.   29^th Street is plowed and snow blowers were used to make it as clear as possible, considering the volume of snow.  Please be extra courteous about parking and follow our policies. Especially limit the length of time you are parked curbside at the houses so that all of our families can have the short walk.  The best times to use your full 10 minutes of curbside parking to catch up with teachers would be after 9:00 and before 4:30.  Otherwise, during these very cold days, please keep your dropoff/pickups very brief so parking does not get congested. 

I know we are all excited to get back to working with your children! 

Oh, for the quickest notifications, don’t forget to sign up for the text alerts.  It only takes a minute to be part of the group.

Text this message

@weefr

To this number:

(574) 310-8161

Thanks!

Tami

Good Afternoon,

Wee Friends will be CLOSED Tuesday, January 6th. Everyone please stay safe and warm during this extreme weather.

Tami

Good Snowy Afternoon,

To better help everyone make plans, I wanted to let everyone know that Wee Friends WILL be CLOSED tomorrow, Monday, 1/6/14 due to the winter storm. Please, if you do travel in the next 36 hours, please be careful! It’s a mess!

Don’t forget to sign up for our new free group text service! With this storm we have had plenty of notice and everyone is aware of a potential closing. However, this text service is a great way for me to contact everyone immediately at any point in the future when immediacy is the key. Thanks for doing this.

Enter this number in your texting app

(574) 310-8161

Text this message to the above number and this will sign you up to receive our WF group text messages

@weefr

Enjoy your snow day,

Tami

Good Morning!

I imagine most of you have seen the forecast for this Sunday and Monday and a few have contacted me for my call on opening on Monday. If the forecast (posted below) comes to fruition, we will be closed on Monday. While we generally do not close alongside of the public schools for temperature only, the forecast is to get dumped on with snow on Sunday and record setting subzero lows on Monday.

I hope this lets you plan better for Monday and if the weather prediction is incorrect, I will email you by 7:30 a.m. on Monday morning with the revision.

As always, I am so sorry for any inconvenience closing can cause. I do not close our program without great thought and anxiety.

NEW Text Alerts for WF Parents…Grab Your Phone!

Grab your phone and follow the steps below to sign up for your Wee Friends text messages. This is a free service that allows me to blast text anyone who has signed up for the service any emergency information, like closings. I won’t know who has signed up, since the service keeps subscribers private. (Not necessary for us, but keeping in mind the service is free, I’ll go with it!)

Enter this number in your phone as a WF contact

(574) 310-8161

Text this message to the above number and this will sign you up to receive our WF group text messages

@weefr

So when I have emergency/closing information, I’ll:

1. Send a blast text to those who have subscribed (immediate notification)

2. Email families (keeping in mind, sometimes emails aren’t immediate and get stuck in cyberland)

3. Post a blog (those signed up get email notifications, but that can be flakey)

YOUR WSBT FORECAST FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 4th

***WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7PM EST TONIGHT UNTIL 1AM EST MONDAY FOR ALL OF MICHIANA***

Mostly cloudy skies expected today. Highs will be in the upper 20s to lower 30s. For tonight, snow will begin during the evening hours and last through the overnight hours. Expect heavy snow at times. Lows will be in the middle 20s. More snow expected on Sunday, heavy at times. Storm totals 8-12″ across the area, with heavier amounts likely near Lake Michigan as lake effect snow begins to develop. Extremely cold temperatures expected Sunday night through Tuesday.