Each day at Wee Friends, we see our friends imitating the roles of moms and dads, playing dress up, acting out real life stories (hammering or making last night’s dinner), and creating make believe spaces.

In these explorations, emotions, minds, language and sensory motor skills are hard at work! Today friends continued creating bear daybeds in housekeeping and the reading area. Today their interest evolved into a more abstract/complex daybed: a hammock.

Practicing the art of negotiation, friends determined where the hammock should be hung. They exercised fine motor (and problem solving!) skills working at tying it to a hook. More social skills were cultivated as friends took turns swinging their bears.

 

To keep our study connected to reading/writing we sought to demonstrate our friend’s names in written form throughout our classroom. We cut out brown, gray and black bears, wrote a friend’s name on each bear and went on a literacy bear hunt! Our friends loved the hunt, and we loved watching our kids identify either their name in its entirety or the first letter of their name. Some of our older friends recreated their own bear at the art table with a template, wrote out their own name and created their own hunt.

We continued our conversation about the differences between grizzly, black and polar bears.

 

For lunch we served whole wheat cous cous with red beans, cantelope and a cucumber/tomato salad.

 

Have a terrific day!