We’re getting ready for Father’s/Grandfather’s Day!

We can’t tell you too much, but we worked with craft cement, cookie cutters and rocks we discovered yesterday on a hike! We’ll be able to share our creations with our grandpas and dads Friday. F.2.9 Use different colors, surface textures, and shapes to create form and meaning. F.2.19 Use a variety of materials (e.g., crayons, paint, clay, markers) to create original work.

We explored how to use familiar toys in new ways. This structure became a ping-pong like game as friends passed a favorite colored magnetic ball back and forth with first a piece of rail road track and then a magnetic rod. F.2.4 Integrate a variety of educational concepts in games. F.1.3 Manipulate objects by throwing, catching large balls with two hands, striking and swinging. F.6.5 Find an indirect way to obtain an object. F.6.6 Discriminate between object that is pulled apart and one that is put together.

All the Wee Friends love playing with water, particularly the outside water fountain. Today, they filled up measuring cups and baby bottles and experimented with mixing and pouring sand and water. They also created sand structures with the wet/dry sand. F.3.1 Participate in activities using materials with a variety of properties (e.g., color, shape, size, name, type of material). F.3.2 Investigate and talk about the characteristics of matter (e.g., liquids and solids, smooth and rough, bend-not bend).

For lunch we served cheese tortellini and whole wheat pasta with white sauce, corn and cantelope/grapes.

A quick note from Tami: Parents when you come into Wee Friends and when you leave please make sure you are closing and locking both the top and bottom locks on the front door.

Have a great day.

Happy Monday!

Today the three year olds visited the Farm.

We started our trip by visiting the baby chicks. We also saw the turkeys and chased a chicken around the yard!

All of our friends had a pony ride!

Ever wonder what happens to the buckets of scraps the kids save in the ‘chicken bowl’ in the kitchen?!

We went on a nature walk through the woods and saw huge trees that had fallen. We examined the root systems as well as the holes they left in the earth.

We picked up black turkey feathers and discovered many uses for them, including a broom!

Miss Charlotte and her husband built a log cabin in the woods of their farm. During a recent storm a tree fell on the house. The house survived with minimal damage to the hickory log roof. Our Wee Friends had a ball climbing up the mountainous trunk that still lays near the cabin.

To end our adventure, Miss Charlotte led us to a secret hiding place inside a row of pine trees. We discovered a robin’s nest with eggs inside!

For lunch we had a turkey and cheese melt on whole wheat tortillas, carrots/celery and raisins.

A few reminders:

*June 20-24-Tami on vacation

*July 1 (Friday)-July 10 (Sun) Wee Friends closed for summer break.

*WF opens again Monday July 11.

*Melinda recently cleaned the cubbies. Please take home any items not needed (winter boots, blankets and toys) as well as artwork in the cubby shelves. Thank you!

Have a great day!

Thank you, Grandma Carol, for spending the morning with us! It was a special treat to have our Librarian/Super Grandma IN HOUSE reading stories and being with Wee Friends.

At one point today, we counted 9 boys and 1 girl at school! It was a quiet day filled with lots of independent play. Friends enjoyed helping make muffins for snack, squishing, cutting and shaping our new coffee

Play-Doh, and

creating complex Magna-Tile structures WITH TOES!

Some friends painted with watercolors and others created long towers out of Trios.

For lunch we served peanut butter on whole wheat tortillas, cantelope and mixed veggies.

Don’t forget we are selling Miss Charlotte’s farm fresh eggs for $3.50 a dozen. They are delicious!

A quick reminder to make sure your child has a change of summer clothes and a swimsuit at school. For hot summer days, we will have lots of backyard water play!

Have a terrific, restful weekend.

This morning Melinda led a science experiment creating sand. Using Starbuck’s coffee grounds (thank you Alexandra G.!), salt, flour and corn meal, friends measured, poured and hand sifted sand. Using mathematical concepts, we compared the amounts of ingredients as well as the containers from which we poured. We poured in order of size (ex: “whoever has the largest container – pour it into the tub!”) adding ingredients sequentially.

As we mixed the ingredients together, friends made observations and comparisons: “It looks like an oreo cookie! It looks like dirt! It does feel like sand! It smells like coffee!”

Friends then squeezed the sand into balls, sifted and rubbed it between their fingers and enjoyed the fruits of their labor!

Melinda then made coffee ground Play-dough!

To pass the rainy day indoors, we blew bubbles out the back door, sang “Bubbles in the Bathtub” and acted out King Bidgood’s in the Bath.

A group of younger friends played house, everyone acting out being a baby. We sang “Hush Little Baby” using the animals from Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See? identifying animals and colors.

The truck room was busy all morning as friends built structures with Magna Tiles and Trios.

For lunch we served toasted turkey and cheese on wheat bread, peas and bananas.

We’re all thinking of Tami as she recovers from yesterday’s surgery on her wrist!

Enjoy your day!