Happy Monday!
**BOOK DONATION: One of our Wee Friends parents is working on an initiative called TRANSLATE FOR TODDLERS: SOUTH BEND TOWARD JUSTICE. It aims at translating into French donated English language books for toddlers and young children aged one to eight. The translated books are then gifted to charitable organizations as a present of welcome to immigrants, refugees, and international students with young children. We are going to have a donation box here at Wee Friends so if you’re able to donate a book, it would be greatly appreciated! If you have any questions, please ask!
In large group, we read a story titled ‘The Little Red Hen’. After we read the story, friends kept asking, “Why are none of the red hen’s friends helping? That doesn’t seem kind..”
Lately, we’ve started looking for the meaning/theme in stories. We also looked for punctuation throughout the story!
After we were done with the book, we went through sentence strips that I made, looking for and naming the punctuation that we saw. We recognized periods, question marks, and exclamation marks.
K.W.6.2b: Punctuation—Recognizing and naming end punctuation.
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Maddie and Lulu were extremely interested in writing themselves today, without teacher assistance. Lulu sounded out the words she needed, spelling ‘map sun’. Lulu drew a map to a sun and described it by writing underneath. Maddie drew a beach and found a paper in her journal titled, ‘beach’. As she was looking through her pieces of paper with writing on them, she noted, “I need to look for a ‘b’ because beach starts with ‘b’.”
Since it was a little chilly and snowy this morning, we brought the outside in to us!
We used many tools to manipulate the snow. When the snow had been inside for a while, we noticed that it started melting.
The rest of our morning consisted of building with various materials, art table, and interacting with peers.
Breakfast– Cinnamon raisin bagel with butter and apples.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with shredded beef and shredded cheese, oranges, and cherry tomatoes.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with blueberries.
Wee Sprout– Carrots and peppers.
Have a wonderful night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/13