Happy Last Day of August!

This week marks the beginning of our first 12-week rotating cycle using the Wee Friends Framework for Academic Balance (FABs). The FABs were created by Tami in 2012 as an organizational tool to ensure that our older preschoolers and kindergartners are offered activities that encompass the Indiana Academic Standards for Kindergarten. For more information on our FABs see https://www.weefriendskids.com/program-philosophy/.

Each week, I will highlight some of the ways we integrate the FABs into our lesson plans and activities based on the interests and needs of the children. 

These are this week’s literacy standards:

K.RF.2.4 Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

K.RF.3.2 Orally segment words into syllables.

In large group this afternoon, we began practicing hearing syllables by learning the syllables song! We figured out the number of syllables in everyone’s name.

Today Wee Frienders had a lot of fine motor skill practice. This morning friends were engaged with pipe cleaners and a strainer:

Beadwork:

And hammering nails!

Kindergarten: Today the kindergarteners played a counting and one-to-one correspondence game called “Counting Sheep.”  This work then evolved to predicting how many sheep were in a pile, counting the actual number and then figuring out how many sheep you were off by. Elizabeth and Elliott were particularly engaged because they made up the rules of the game!

Wee Sprouts: Carrots/cucumber. Breakfast: Toasted whole wheat bread with butter and grapes. Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with shredded beef and tomatoes and oranges. Snack: Organic whole milk yogurt and fresh Purple Porch raspberries!

Have a wonderful afternoon. –Jessica