Good afternoon!
Please enjoy some pictures of our exciting day!
Breakfast: Whole grain Kix cereal with fresh strawberries
Lunch: Hummus on whole grain tortilla, fresh orange and cooked broccoli
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagels with cream cheese and fresh banana
Wee Sprout: Mini cucumber
Have a fantastic evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to Pictures: 2026-06-09
Good Afternoon!
For our PREK1 sign in, we focused on travel and how we prefer to get around. A lot of our friends are traveling to Europe or overseas this summer so we specifically talked about how we need to travel across the Atlantic ocean because driving is not an option! However, we also talked about the various ways we can travel within the United States including by train, car, and airplane!
We played off of our interest surrounding continents and new places by reading our world book for group time, Here and There, as requested by Arthur! We chose to read about nature and how it looks different on different continents and different countries. We learned about animals that occupy specific places and habitats. We used a map of the world to help identify where a few of these places are.
Today, we offered a maps activity table since the older kids have been talking about maps during group. Several kids have been traveling out of the country or have plans to, so many of our kids have been interested in where these places are on the map. We offered a stencil activity where kids could stencil the continents with colored pencil. Several kids decided to make a “world maps” book. They took time to write the names of each continent and then create a cover with a title.
Kids could try a playdough world map activity as well, using playdough to look at the world map and create their own. Kids began to recognize the shape of certain continents as they tried the various activities. Arthur shared that South America was the shape of a tornado.
We offered a continent puzzle activity as well which younger kids were able to do. They looked at the shapes of the continents and found the matching piece to fit.
Hannah took this project even further…both figuratively and literally into outer space. She wanted to draw the planet Earth with the continents as it would look from space. Next, she made a chart including Earth and Mars. She took her chart around the class and asked friends to choose which planet they liked best. She commented ,“Boy, people sure do like Earth a lot!”. This is exactly the type of evolution we love to see in class projects. It shows us kids are using their own creativity and critical thinking skills to think for themselves. They are able to make connections and build on what they have learned all on their own..
Please enjoy a few more pictures!
Breakfast: Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh cantaloupe.
Lunch: Peanut butter on whole wheat tortillas, cheddar cheese, fresh honeydew melon/oranges and fresh cucumbers/carrots.
PM Snack: Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh green beans/cucumbers.
Have a wonderful afternoon!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-09
Good Afternoon!
We began our morning engaged in a variety of activities. Several friends rocked in the rocking chair, rocked on the rainbow mats, engaged with a ball, went down the habi-trail slide and engaged in the play kitchen and looked through the colored squares of the pyramid.
We then engaged in water play in the sensory table. We had sea animals, plastic eggs, boats and strainers.
We then headed outside to engage in the sandbox, draw with chalk on the chalkboard and engage in pushing the trucks down the car ramps.
Breakfast: Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh bananas.
Lunch: Whole grain penne pasta with black beans, fresh pear and cooked sweet potatoes.
Afternoon Snack: Whole milk yogurt and fresh strawberries.
Wee Sprout: Mini Cucumbers
Have a terrific evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-08
Happy Monday!
**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed Monday, June 22 through Friday July 3. We’ll reopen Monday, July 6.
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We kicked off our week by continuing to talk about maps but today, we worked as a team to complete our classroom map! PREK1 kiddos came up to the board, chose a card, and after reading the card aloud, taped it onto the correct space on the map. Several friends just hung out around the board, watching various spaces of our classroom identified on the map!
Social Studies: Create maps 2 dimensionally and 3 dimensionally.
Our older kids got right to work drawing and writing at the art table and throughout our classroom. One of our favorite activities lately across all age ranges is using a clipboard to ask questions amongst their peers! Eliza took a clipboard around this morning and asked her peers what their favorite color was. Not only does this simple, child driven activity help promote literacy in the way of kid spelling but one to one correspondence as children use tally marks or drawings to document answers.
Elsewhere in our classroom, children searched for a space to peak their interest. Various building materials were used all morning long. Charlotte and a friend read a story in the reading area where they identified the shapes they found in the story as well as counting the number of shapes that they saw!
Enjoy a few pictures from our outside time this morning!
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and cinnamon along with fresh apples.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and shredded cheese, fresh strawberries/cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/green beans/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots/green beans.
Have a wonderful night!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-08
Happy Friday!
Hannah had a journal from earlier in the week that she wasn’t able to finish so she decided she’d work on it today. Lately, several friends have been interested in identifying vowels and how they fit into kid spelling! Hannah shared, “All of the words I wrote have vowels.”. We looked into it and there are very few words that don’t have a vowel: shh, psst, and hmm. Not words we use very much!
At the art table, friends were taking spelling into their own hands by sounding out words that they wanted to write, such as unicorn!
There are so many aspects that children explore once they start kid spelling such as punctuation, vowels and consonants, and blends. We explore these freely when interest and readiness arise and it only helps children retain and understand these if they work together!
Arthur challenged himself this morning in different spaces in the classroom. Children have loved building with the gear activity and recently, they’ve only thought to build horizontally along their board. Today, Arthur decided to see if it’d work to build up while keeping his gear chair in tact. It worked! This allowed other friends to explore the same concept.
Later, he sat with a younger peer at the circle table where they used the rubber band boards. Arthur started placing the bands onto his board in a specific way, wanting to make certain shapes. His younger peer sat there quietly and watched as he tried to replicate what Arthur was making. One of the many benefits of a multi-age classroom: younger kiddos learning from their older peers (and sometimes, vice versa too!).
Here are a few pictures from the rest of our day!
Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh watermelon.
Lunch– Chicken and sliced cheese on whole wheat bread, fresh pears/banana, and fresh cucumber/pepper.
PM snack– Pretzels and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.
Have a lovely weekend!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-05
Happy Friday!
We have really enjoyed driving wooden trucks around this week, so Miss Bekah used tape to create a road for friends to drive their trucks around! We also pulled out ramps and wooden blocks that we drove our trucks along.
Then, Miss Audrey pulled down the swing, and each friend was offered a turn.
Outside, we engaged in our favorite activities.
Breakfast: Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh kiwi/pear.
Lunch: Hummus on whole grain wheat bread, fresh oranges and cooked carrots.
Afternoon Snack: Pretzel sticks and mild cheddar block cheese.
Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.
Have a great weekend!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-05
Good Afternoon!
This morning, we drove wooden trucks and trains around the room. A couple friends also explored object permanence boxes.
Outside, we enjoyed some water play and painting on the easel.
Breakfast: Whole grain Corn ex cereal and fresh pears slices.
Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh watermelon and cooked corn.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Wheat Thin crackers with peanut butter.
Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.
Have a terrific evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-04
Good afternoon,
This morning a group of friends decided to all make books about snowmen. I asked what made them think about snowman today. One friend answered, “Well, it’s been so hot that I wanted to cool off, so I decided to draw snowmen to make me feel cooler”. What a great way to use the visual and language arts!
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh pears.
Lunch: Brown rice with turkey, fresh yellow kiwi/watermelon, and fresh cucumbers/peppers.
PM Snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter/pepita seeds/raisins.
Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/snap peas.
Have a lovely day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-04
Happy Wednesday!
This morning a friend requested the Sleeping Bunnies song. We acted out the motions to the song.
We then headed into the kitchen to engage with playdough. The friends used tools to cut their playdough into shapes and Miss Bekah showed a few friends who had playdough scissors how to hold them to cut their dough. We also flattened our dough with hammers and rolling pins.
We then headed outside. Several friends helped to water our flowers, engage in scooping up the sand and placing it into their containers and ride or push their bikes up or down the hill.
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh pears.
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded colby-jack cheese, whole grain wheat flatbread, fresh kiwi and cooked peas.
Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat tortillas and hummus.
Wee Sprout: Cucumber
Have a wonderful evening!
WWF Teachers
Link to pictures: 2026-06-03
Good afternoon!
It was a good day for hands in paint! We mixed up some paint/corn starch/shaving cream, added some tools to choose from (plus hands of course) and allowed the kids to freely explore paint in a way that was engaging to them. It was a successful project as many kids spent over 20 minutes deeply engrossed in the art making process.
We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!
Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh pears
Lunch: Farm fresh scrambled eggs with cheese, fresh banana/oranges and fresh cucumbers/peppers
PM Snack: Humus with tortilla chips
Wee Sprouts: Fresh snap peas/peppers
Enjoy the rest of your day!
~Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures:2026-06-03