Today we welcome 3 year old Owen to Wee Friends! We are so glad you are with us!

Lisa came to Wee Friends today with a butterfly habitat that stands 3’ tall! Rich, having heard all about how friends were collecting live specimens, built it for us! Thank you, Rich!

We stayed outside all morning chasing butterflies and doodle bugs. We watched more babies being born. We read books under the shade of our tree. Using sidewalk chalk, we created art, numbers and letters. The Boss of the Garden led a harvesting of tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes and (our first) carrots. Marina, Sloane and Leo took care of their babies. We welcomed a new friend and started talking to “old” friends about new schools. This Friday, we say goodbye to Ada and a week from today, Arleigh.

Have a terrific Monday.

Breakfast: Whole wheat PB toast and bananas. Lunch: Brown rice with turkey, fruit salad with cantaloupe, strawberries and blueberries and a WF garden kale salad with Ranch. Snack: Yogurt and blueberries.

Happy Friday!

To start off our Friday, our four friends headed into the kitchen where they worked with coffee filters and markers. Once they were done with each coffee filter, we sprayed water onto the coffee filter and watch the colors melt together! The different colors ran down the coffee filter and blended together. We found this very interesting!

Stories took up most of our morning. Between teachers reading books to children and friends reading to themselves, books were everywhere this morning! Books allow friends to increase their vocabulary. A lot of our friends vocabulary is taking off! Woohoo!

Smiles filled the room.

Once we headed outside, friends scattered to their favorite activity. We love drinking from the water fountain .

For breakfast, children had raisin bran and banana. Lunch consisted of whole grain mac and cheese, oranges, and salad.

Have a lovely weekend!

We are flying into our weekend chasing butterflies. A perfect way to end this week spent observing nature’s amazing and miraculous…..bugs……and the miraculous and amazing Wee Friends who have invested hours of study. This week we created habitats for doodle bugs, a fly, a cricket, an earthworm, an ant and today….a few species of butterflies found on our butterfly bush outside.

Before the butterfly expedition, friends spent time be-jeweling homemade crowns, building pirate ships, reading Bob the Dog (and exploring letter sounds and recognition) and digging in the sand.

Have a great weekend.

Wee Sprouts: WF cucumbers. Breakfast: Peanut butter toast and apple slices. Lunch: Homemade mac-n-cheese, salad with ranch and oranges. Snack: Cottage cheese and pretzels.

Happy Thursday!

Friends started packing for their Wee Wee picnic! They decided to take everything . It sure was delicious! We did a great job sharing our food with our friends and teachers.

After our picnic food was gone, we heard lovely music coming from our music area. Emma and Eren played their xylophones in unison.

The sun was shining this morning as friends headed outside. There was a traffic jam with a few trucks and grocery carts! We were go, go, go!

For breakfast, children had cheerios and banana. Lunch consisted of melted cheese on whole wheat tortillas, mixed vegetables, and banana. PM snack was special mini cupcakes that Macy from Wee Friends brought over along with string cheese. Today is Macy’s last day at Wee Friends. Thanks for the special cupcakes Macy and we will sure miss you!

Have a great night.

 

 

Macy Wolfe Little was 7 months old when she became a Wee Friend. Today she is 5 and 3/4, and it’s time to say goodbye. She will start kindergarten at Northpoint Elementary School in a couple weeks. Today marks 7 1/2 years that the Little Family has been a part of the Wee Friends family. Both Macy’s sisters, Sydney (9) and Taylor (8) were Wee Friends. How do we say goodbye?! Well, the sendoff began yesterday by the Little’s having the Kona Ice truck visit Wee Friends! THANK YOU so much!

How do we say goodbye? Let’s not! We will say “We love you, Macy Wolfe Little! Thank you for the gifts you have shared with Wee Friends: Your giggles, your leadership, your initiative and thoughtful observations! You are a lovely girl and we can’t wait for you to come back and visit us, sharing stories of your new friends and new school-and the school bus! We know you are excited about riding the school bus.” That’s what we’ll say. No goodbyes, just big hugs and kisses.

Fly away Little Lady! YOU CAN DO IT! And come back to us soon.

Wee Sprouts: Elliott’s garden tomatoes. Breakfast: Cheerios and bananas. Lunch: Lisa’s taco salad (thank you, Lisa!), tomatoes and bananas. Snack: Tami’s homemade rice pudding and crackers.

Human babies, doll babies and doodle bug babies have been filling our play, our curiosity and our imagination!

Today, we used embroidered nursery rhyme blankets to warm and comfort our dollies.

When Arleigh picked up a blanket, she wrapped it around her leg as a bandage. This discovery led her to invite her friends to play doctor. We offered a cot, rag bandages and lotion for friends to act out their doctor story.

To support our Doodle Bug study, Elizabeth’s mom, Kristin, has loaned us a microscope. 

This is a really special track that Elliott designed and constructed. He charged $59 to use it. A teacher paid him and then with a slight tilt of the orange beam,  rolled a car down. Elliott expressed that it could not be done that way. A conversation followed about who gets to choose how the car is rolled and why. Elliott said “I made it and they are my cars.” The teacher said “Yes, but I paid you $59.” Elliott finally agreed “Ok-it’s $100 to do it like that.”

“Where is Ben?” asked Leo this morning. He was ecstatic to see Daniel, our new Wee Friend! Welcome Daniel!

We saw the sky darkening and decided to get outside ASAP. Friends expressed fear about  thunderstorms and lightening. Mel read and played our rainstorm book/cd and talked with Wee Friends about their specific fears of the changing weather. They discussed details about clouds, rainstorms, thunder and tornadoes. Finn explained “torrential” rainstorms and elaborated on “rotating winds”. 

We headed outside and when Ada found another mama doodle bug, Lea expressed: “We found another rolly polly giving birds!”

Human babies, doll babies and doodle bug babies have Wee Friends giving bird (or birth!) to new ideas each day. We love it!

Wee Sprouts: Celery. Breakfast: Chex cereal and apples. Lunch: Tami’s ham and bean soup, cornbread and watermelon. Snack: String cheese and crackers.

Good Afternoon!

Music filled our morning with sounds of laughter and joy! Children got out their favorite instrument and played along with music going in the background.

With the outside air feeling fresh after the nice rain we got last night, friends scurried off to the sandbox where children played with the wet sand.

We love building with the sand packing it with our hands . On the log, Emma made a castle using packed sand!

For breakfast, children had chex and banana. Lunch consisted of AWESOME pasta with whole grain noodles and homemade marinara sauce, fresh cantaloupe, mixed vegetables, and fresh garden potatoes. PM snack was homemade zucchini/banana bread and string cheese.

Have a terrific evening.

We spent most of the morning cooking our lunch with our garden harvest. Using chives, zucchini and tomatoes from our garden,  we created a marinara. We roasted our potatoes and used more zucchini in a bread for snack. Friends washed, cracked, snipped, tossed, salted, poured, scooped and stirred everything, helping it make its way to our table.

The tomato/zucchini marinara, roasted potatoes and zucchini bread were all delicious. Friends loved knowing the food on their table came from their garden.

And now we wait on our plum tree.

Other great Tuesday Wee Moments:

• Matching and rhyming with Lisa
• Creating a balancing course under the habitrail
• Playing house (and baby) and switching roles
• Leo and Puff the Magic Garden Dragon
• Daily sign in sheet
• Digging for more fossils
• And looking for more pregnant doodle bugs.

Hope you’re having a great day.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Corn Chex and bananas. Lunch: WF Garden marinara with penne pasta, roasted WF potatoes and cantaloupe. Snack: WF zucchini bread and watermelon.

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone’s weekend went well!

We headed outside this morning where our friends dove right into their Monday routine. While friends sprinted to the sandbox, other zoomed down the slide with friends. It was the perfect morning outside!

We had an afternoon filled of various activities. Lu Lu sat with a few friends and played different instruments. Keerthi fed her baby doll with a bottle. She talked to the baby as she was falling asleep.

For breakfast, children had cheerios and oranges. Lunch consisted of whole wheat tortillas, turkey, cheddar cheese slices, cucumber, and banana. PM snack was goldfish and hard boiled eggs.

Have a great evening.

We danced into Monday. We also talked to friends about birthstones and discovered who knows their birth date! Friends practiced writing their names and choosing the jewel that matched the color of their birthstone.

We headed outside as soon as we could and created a fossil dig in the sandbox, using the salt dough fossils we made last week. Finn created rules to follow and shared with us how he found several dino bones in his own backyard!

The Doodle Bug Team continues to collect pill bugs. Today we discovered the difference between a male and female. We also learned how a mama doodle bug hatches her eggs. We think we found a mama in the process of giving birth. Wee Friends were amazed and excited. “Stand back-you’ve got to see this.” exclaimed Elliott.

Ada found a fly who couldn’t fly. She rescued the fly and created another glass jar habitat for it. We studied what flies might eat and fed the new pet a small flower and a dead doodle bug. Ada and Elizabeth are keeping close tabs on their new specimen.

The backyard baby dolls give our Wee Friends and siblings pure comfort and joy-and good practice being a contributing member of a family!

Look how this newly formed family took care of Lea: helping her cocoon herself under the cool, silky sand. This large group of friends collaborated peacefully and worked toward one goal. They showed understanding on how to care for Lea’s body so that she was not hurt.

Right now we are harvesting tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers. Thank you to the Garden Committee who came this weekend and weeded the garden. It looks beautiful and inviting-and delicious!

Wee Sprouts: Elliott’s garden tomatoes (thank you!). Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with cinnamon and pear slices. Lunch: Turkey and cheddar cheese sandwiches, WF garden cucumbers and apple slices. Snack: Bananas and cottage cheese.

Have a happy day.