WF, 9-5-2017 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

The FABs that we will focus on this week are:

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

K.RF.3.2 Orally segment words into syllables.

K.NS.4 Perform one to one correspondence tasks.

K.NS.5 Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line , a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

In large group, we read ‘Tacky in Trouble’. Before we started reading, I asked the question, “What are syllables?” A few friends said that we hear them in words so to build upon that, I commented that the syllables are individual sounds we hear in a given word. I asked them to pay attention in the story because afterwards, we would count the number of syllables in the names of the characters we read about in the story.

After the story was done, friends started naming off characters names. We used two techniques to figure out the number of syllables in each name; the clapping technique and the ‘hand under the chin’ technique.

The clapping technique focuses around clapping when you hear each unit of sound. For example, TACK (one clap)- Y (one clap). The second technique we used has children put their hand under their chin and say the word. How many times your chin moves is how many syllables are in a word!

Once we were done, MANY children said, “Hey! All of the names have two syllables! It’s a pattern!”

We had a TERRIFIC first swim session. Children in the beginner class focused on their back float and kicking with their legs while children in the advanced class worked on putting their face in the water and making bubbles while using their arms and legs to move throughout the water (sometimes unassisted!).

The reading area was a popular place with many friends today. They enjoyed looking at the books themselves or asking a teacher to read many books to them!

A few friends were using their creativity as they built with the magnet blocks in the science area.

The bikes were very popular this morning. Grady used imagination play to pretend he was a traffic light. He would say red light or green light and his friends would either stop or go as they were riding by the deck.