Happy Monday!
It was a full, active day here at Wee Friends!
We started off by welcoming our newest Wee Friender’s, Brycen and Calix!
Our FAB for the week:
Social Studies: K.3.6 Identify and compare similarities and differences in families, classmates, neighbors and neighborhoods, and ethnic and cultural groups.
We incorporated this into our day in a variety of ways.
Miss Melinda offered a music and movement opportunity in the habitrail area where she started off the conversation by asking Lulu, “Lulu, are you the same as Riley?” She laughed and said, “No! He’s a boy!” We talked about the similarities and differences between us all. The fact that we’re all people was mentioned as a similarity.
We compared us as people and then switched to comparing and contrasting instruments. Children were asked how much they know about instruments as well as what instruments we have available here at Wee Friends. The following were shouted out: piano, drums, guitar, and shakers (maracas).
This conversations lead into DOING! Friends each got their own instrument and proceeded to make music by walking throughout the house.
As we played our different instruments, we marched to a beat.
Jackson and Addi started their Kindergarten year today!
The FAB for the week was able to be brought into our large group discussion today. We read two stories that discussed the similarities and differences in each other as well as our families.
The first story we read was a new Robert Munsch book that I found at the library! After reading, ‘Purple, Green, and Yellow’, we talked about the color of our skin and how no one is the same. Clara commented, “I’m beige!”
The second story we read was, ‘Meet the Parents’, which was a story displaying what parents do for their children. I started off the story asking, “Raise your hand if you have one parent? Raise your hand if you have two parents?” In this group, everyone raised their hand for two parents. We talked about how some children only have one parent. A child raised her hand and said, “Maybe because their other parent went away?”
After our stories, we dissected all of our families. We found out how many people are in each of our families. “Everyone’s family looks different”, said Clara.
We headed outside this morning where we realized that the rain that we got over the weekend washed away some of the sandbox. Clara, Jackson, and Addi took the initiative to form a group to collect the sand that was on the sidewalk and transfer it using trucks and buckets. They moved it to the areas of the sandbox that got eroded.
We all pitched in. Great team effort!
After sweeping up leftover sand, the three amigos headed around the yard cleaning up other areas that were a little messy.
Our Monday was terrific! We hope you had a great day too.
Breakfast– Bagels with sunflower seed butter and pears.
Lunch– Hummus on tortillas, oranges/pears, and green beans/carrots.
PM snack– Yogurt with fresh PPC peaches.
Wee Sprout– Green beans and carrots.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/15