Good Afternoon!
The FAB’s for the week are as follows:
K.RL.2.2: With support, retell familiar stories, poems, and nursery rhymes, including key details.
K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence. (2006 standard)
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
The habitrail is one of the most popular areas in the house. This morning, friends moved their bodies throughout the environment.
Then, we transformed the area into a big arena for children to use different sized cars on the mat. It’s wonderful when we can transfer spaces throughout the house to meet children’s needs at a specific time.
Play dough was made available this morning at the art table. Our imagination was flowing as there were many different things made. Sometimes, friends just use their fine motor skills to transform the play dough from one state to another.
It’s not JUST play dough..
https://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/music-math-more/playdough-power
In large group, we continued our ‘Tacky the Penguin’ interest as we read ‘Tacky and the Winter Games’. Throughout the story, Tacky and his friends prepared for the winter games! There were many different activities that were done throughout the story. At the end of the story, we talked about different events that occurred throughout the story that we thought were important. Every child stated an event that they liked or that they thought was of importance. Throughout the week, we’re going to focus on putting these events in chronological order. (K.1.4)
Volcanoes have been a recent theme for a few of our friends in large group. Today, Maddie and Lulu constructed individual maps of paths leading from a volcano to their home. As they’re drawing, they described what path to take to get to the volcano the quickest. Addi commented, “I don’t live by a volcano.” Children put such thought into their journals that by validating it by explaining/describing the journal at the bottom of the page, it brings the whole process full circle.
The look of investigation; where our heads are buried in the ground, investing the world around us.
Hope you had a terrific start to your week!
Breakfast– English muffins with hummus and apples.
Lunch– Pasta bake with melted shredded cheese, applesauce, and mixed vegetables.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with blackberries.
Wee Sprouts– Carrots.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/3