Wee Start Update!

Welcome to Wee Start! The year is off to a great start! We are beginning to learn daily routines and the children are becoming comfortable with their environment, the other children, and their teachers.

This week and next week our theme is fall! We filled our sensory table with silk leaves and bugs. The children have enjoyed covering up the bugs with the leaves and putting the leaves in baskets. We have also done many fall themed art projects. We had a fun time sponge painting red, yellow, orange and brown leaves on a construction paper tree. Some of the fall art projects will be displayed in the front office. Stop by the office in the next few weeks to check out what we have been working on!

Wee Learner #1 Update

Our class has had a busy start of the year. We started the year meeting new friends and saying "hi" to old ones. Chester the raccoon came to visit the class and teach us about our classroom and all the fun stuff we have to play and learn with. He also shared his baby book with us. We learned that baby raccoons need their mother to teach them to hunt for food. We learned that raccoons like to stay awake during the night. They are nocturnal. They like to eat corn, eggs and garbage. We sang a song about raccoons, too.

The next week we discovered colors by being scientist. We have done two experiments. The first one was mixing colors. We mixed blue and yellow together to make green and we mixed red and blue together to make purple. Check out our experiment in the test tubes on the windowsill. We read the book Little Blue Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. This is a story about two friends, one was yellow and one was blue. They were happy to see each other and gave each other a hug and turned green!!! This is a great book to check out of the library and find out what happened next. Our second experiment was to see if crayons sink or float. A great and easy experiment to try at home. Hmmmm.... I wonder which ones will float?

We read two books about crayons. The first book was The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane De Rolf. The second book was How Is A Crayons Made? by Oz Charles.

We are finishing up September by going buggy in our room. Yes, we are talking about those 6 legged, two antenned creatures and some bugs, like worms and spiders. We have been doing a lot of counting of legs to find out if the bugs are insect or not. Remember spiders have 8 legs so they are not considered insects. We are exploring outside to find some bugs to bring inside. We use our magnifying glasses to check them out a little closer. Real worms will be at the science table for us to examine. We will hold them and feel how they wiggle without legs off our hands. Do you know they have eight bristles under each segment to help them move?

Wow, September has been an exciting month!

Wee Learner #3 Update

Hello! Wee Learners #3 has been having a very exciting time with starting the new school year! The last two weeks we have been focusing on getting to know each other and the daily routine. We’ve also have had a blast exploring our classroom and all the fun things it has to offer!

In the next few week we will be learning about the many ways we are special, complete with a special classroom book made up of the stories behind our names and our likes and dislikes. We will also will be exploring colors and the fun facts about the Fall season. These themes will be using different activities, projects, and experiments, all of which will be fun learning experiences.

We hope that your child has been enjoying their time here and hopefully they are sharing their wonderful experiences at home with you and your family. We are excited to see how much fun we can have learning this year in Wee Learners #3!

4K Update: This is the way we…

...Go to school!

We are so excited to welcome so many new faces into our program and our classroom. As we begin our new school year. We spend a great deal of time learning the day to day routines of our classroom. We wanted to take this opportunity to share some of those routines with you.

We begin our 4K day at 8:00am with a free exploration time. Children are allowed to play with all of the toys in our classroom during this time. This allows students to practice making choices and engage in self directed activities. The teacher in the classroom at this time (usually Ms. Lee) greets friends being dropped off, facilitates learning through play and prepares students for the day ahead. During this first free hour we also pause for morning snack.


Between 9:00-9:15am we begin cleaning up our classroom. We practice our teamwork, and self help skills during clean up.


At 9:15 we begin our morning meeting. During this time we all come together as a class. We sing our good morning song, talk about months, seasons, and days of the week. We choose our daily helpers, continue our pattern on the calendar, and graph the weather.


After morning meeting we take a break for music and movement allowing us to get out all our wiggles and giggles and keep up with our group time.

Around 9:30-9:45 we have our story time.

At 9:50 we move to the tables to draw and write in our journals. Right now children draw a picture and come to a teacher to have her write all the words. As the school year continues many students will begin to write some of these words on their own.


After finishing journals children are given a more limited choice time and allowed to work with our activity bins. Activity bins are games and toys to be used independently or with a small group. These activity bins help us develop, fine motor, math and literacy skills as well as promote independence and focus.


This time is also when we complete our theme activity. Sometimes it’s an art project, other times a math activity, a literacy lesson, or a science experiment. Some days we may participate as a whole group other days a few children at a time are called to work with a teacher.

At 10:45 we head outside for some gross motor play. Most days we enjoy free play time at the Webster Park playground. Other days we walk on paths through the woods or play group games in the field.

At 11:15 we head in from outside for another group time. We play a group game, sometimes share another story, use our pocket chart for literacy or math, feed our sound muncher, do a fun letter activity.

At 11:45 we prepare for lunch. Our lunch helper helps set the tables, our counter counts the days of school and how many friends are in our class today. We write our storyboard about our day and wash our hands for lunch time.

After lunch we head down to playroom for a nap from 1:00-3:00. Any children who do not sleep are sent to an up room for quiet activities at 2:00.

At 3:30 we eat our afternoon snack in the classroom and have free exploration until our afternoon outside time at 4:00.

At 4:30 we return to the 4K classroom for a short story time or table activity.

At 5:00 we combine in WL#1 for the end of the day.