WF, 01-31-2017 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Today when a friend came to school, he wanted to paint. After breakfast, we made finger painting available. All of our friends came over and explored mixing the primary colors together to make new colors.

In Kindergarten today:

We focused on two of our FAB’s for the week:

K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g., create a rectangle composed of two triangles).

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

Translucent geometric shapes were made available at the light table. Our younger friends joined Jackson and Addi so there were varying degrees of ability. As a group, we talked about the properties of the shapes that we saw such as the number of sides and vertices. A couple questions came up regarding vertices so I had everyone get a shape and press the pointy corner. “This is a vertices!” It’s where the sides come together.

Addi and Jackson took two sizes of the same shape such as a big triangle and a small triangle. I asked if they were the same shape. “Yes! They still both have three sides,” commented Addi.

Afterwards, friends were given the reigns to use their imagination. Addi started to build a house while incorporating grass, a garage, chimney, and trees! Some of our younger friends made simple geometric patterns using various shapes.