Good Afternoon!

We continued to talk about community helpers and what each helper needs to do their job. Today for PREK1 sign in, children were given three clues for a specific helper and they had to choose if the clues were for a farmer or a painter. A few friends were able to correctly sign in under the helper by sounding out each word! It’s amazing when children can start identifying words and sounding out words we use a lot.

Social Studies: K.4.2 Identify and describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools they use.

This morning we had an innovative idea at the sand table.  One of our friends discovered he could used the truck bed to make bricks out of sand.  He asked for some sticks and used them as corner posts to brace rows of his bricks.  He said he was building a house.  These are the kinds of discoveries we always hope for through free exploration of materials!

Another friend tried our most difficult puzzle this morning.  He was able to complete several different orientations of the puzzle pieces, creating different patterned designs.  These kinds of activities build memory/focus, pattern recognition, visual/spacial awareness and problem solving through trial and error.  Puzzles like this also build critical thinking skills which foster mathematical/logical thinking later on.

We hope you enjoy a few more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Overnight oatmeal with fresh bananas.

Lunch: Farm fresh egg/cheese roll-ups with flatbread, fresh pineapple/bananas and fresh snap peas/peppers.

PM Snack: Hummus with tortilla chips.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/snap peas.

Have a great day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-05-06

Happy Wednesday!

Please enjoy some pictures of our exciting day!

Breakfast:  Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon/sugar mixture and fresh cantaloupe.

Lunch: Sliced Colby Jack cheese, whole grain wheat bread, fresh pineapple and green beans

Afternoon Snack: Hummus and white corn tortilla chips

Wee Sprout: Cucumber

Have a wonderful evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:  2026-05-06

Happy Tuesday!

We spent a good portion of our morning building with Magna-Tiles! Friends built by themselves and with friends.

In the kitchen, we engaged with our fabric flower petals and plastic egg sensory table. We picked things up with tongs to put into baskets and tried fitting plastic egg halves together.

Afterwards, Miss Bekah brought out the Mix and Match Magnetic animals, and we all worked on putting animals together.

Breakfast:  Whole grain Kix cereal and fresh apple slices.

Lunch: Refried beans, whole grain wheat tortillas, fresh cantaloupe and cooked peas.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain wheat bagels with butter and fresh oranges.

Wee Sprout: Yellow bell peppers.

Have a terrific evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-05-05

Good afternoon!

We hope you enjoy some pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Kix cereal with fresh strawberries.

Lunch:  Peanut butter on whole wheat flatbread, fresh mango/banana/watermelon, and fresh cucumbers/green beans.

PM Snack: Whole wheat bagel with butter and cinnamon.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/green beans.

Have a lovely afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-05-05

Happy Monday!

**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed Monday, May 25th for Memorial Day.

Today, we started exploring community helpers and the tools they need to do their jobs correctly. Each PREK1 friend came up to the board where they chose a piece of paper with a community helper written on it. They read the helper aloud and matched it to the tool that the helper needs to do their job. A few friends were able to read their community helpers name and find the tool on the board by sounding out the words!

Social Studies: K.4.2 Identify and describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools they use.

This morning, we explored some loose parts building materials.  Kids enjoyed creating a variety of inventions as they tinkered with different ways to put the pieces together.  A couple of the inventions kids shared were a “paint sprayer with a holder”, a “bell instrument”, a dinning table and a “hammer”. 

These two friends worked at the art center all morning strengthening their visual/spacial, language arts, and fine motor stills through play.  First, they chose to draw pictures that looked the same.  They had to look carefully at the details of how to draw one another’s images.  Next, they worked together to write out the entire alphabet in “rainbow letters”.  They talked back and forth about the letter sounds as they made their letters.  It’s great to see kids hard at work learning with no teacher direction at all!

We spent much of the morning outside moving our bodies, creating imaginative play schemes and building bonds with friends.

Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with cream cheese and fresh plums.

Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with marinara, mozzarella cheese, fresh watermelon/banana and fresh cucumbers/peppers.

PM Snack: Whole milk yogurt with granola.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh pea pods/peppers.

Have a great day!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-05-04

Happy Monday!

The friends engaged with making beats while playing their drums.

We then engaged in building with Duplos.

We then headed outside to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and weather.  We dug in the sandbox,  engaged in water play on the deck, engaged with the toys on the blanket and crawled off to explore the grass and engaged in pushing the trucks down the ramps.

Breakfast:  Whole grain wheat bread toast with butter and fresh oranges.

Lunch:  Whole grain penne pasta with marinara sauce and shredded Colby Jack cheese, fresh apple and cooked broccoli.

Afternoon Snack:  Whole milk yogurt and fresh watermelon.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a marvelous evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-05-04

Happy Friday!

Reminder:  Wee Friends will be closed on Monday, May 25th for Memorial Day.  Thank you.

The friends noticed Miss Bekah dusting and wanted to help.  Each friend got a turn dusting with the duster.

We engaged in the kitchen with playdough.  We used our rolling pins and wooden hammers to flatten our dough and our cookie cutters and playdough knives to cut it.

While we were outside, we went down the slide, cooked in housekeeping, worked on our balance walking down the rocks by the slides and engaged with a truck on the blanket.

Breakfast:  Whole grain brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh watermelon.

Lunch: Sliced rotisserie chicken lunch meat, whole grain wheat bread, fresh watermelon and cooked corn

Afternoon Snack:  Mozzarella cheese stick and whole grain Goldfish

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers. 

Have a great weekend!

WWF Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-05-01

Happy Friday!

Yesterday afternoon, a couple of our older friends said they had an idea for an activity they wanted to explore the next day.  They asked if they could mix cornstarch and water with “sesame seeds” and paint.  After talking a bit, we figured out what they meant was chia seeds.  They wanted to have all the ingredients in jars so they could mix them in an “experiment”.  We set that up this morning. Some of the kids stayed with the activity for an hour, carefully mixing all the components into a lovely slimy concoction :).

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!

Breakfast: Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and fresh plums.

Lunch: Ham and cheese on whole wheat tortilla,  fresh honey dew melon/plum/pineapple slices and fresh peppers/cucumbers.

PM Snack: Goldfish and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprouts: Fresh cucumbers/peppers.

Have a great weekend!

~Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures:2026-05-01

Happy Thursday!

This morning we engaged with the sound sensory tubes.  We swapped sensory tubes with each other, and sat on the habitrail steps together.

Then, we took turns on the swing!

Outside, we enjoyed riding the teeter totters, going down the hill on bikes and cooking in housekeeping.

Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal with cinnamon sugar mixture and fresh pear.

Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with red beans, fresh watermelon and cooked broccoli.

Afternoon Snack: Whole grain Ritz crackers with peanut butter.

Wee Sprout: Cucumbers.

Have a great evening!

WWF Teachers

Link to Pictures: 2026-04-30

Good afternoon!

We had a great trip to the farm this morning!  First, we collected eggs from the chicken coup.  There were enough that everyone got to collect some.  Next, we went exploring in the woods.  We found that the woods were flooded with seasonal pools.  The kids were very interested in these pools so we explored them thoroughly.  One friend had the idea to try to build a bridge to an “island”.  Everyone helped lay branches across the pool to make a bridge to the island.  The kids were excited to try crossing the bridge.  Though one friend forgot to wait for a teachers hand to cross and got a bit wet…the bridge was for the most part successful :).

Back at Wee Friends, we stayed busy at the art table making a very innovative donut truck and on the building rug exploring several new yoga poses. Kids always want to try ‘the Human Zipper’! When we went outside, children immediately gravitated towards the bikes and the log area.

Breakfast: Toasted oatmeal squares with fresh apple slices.

Lunch: Brown rice with turkey, fresh honeydew melon/oranges, and fresh cherry tomatoes/cucumber/pepper.

PM snack: Whole wheat crackers with peanut butter, seed mixture, and raisins.

Wee Sprout: Fresh cucumber/snap peas/pepper.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2026-04-30