“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Anna banana, happy birthday to you!”
We celebrated Anna today as she turned FOUR years old! We hope you had a sparkly, fun filled birthday!
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We opened up ‘Wee Friends Library’ in pre-k/k group. After reading ‘Elmer and Snake’, we looked at four library books and worked as a team to put them in alphabetical order using the author’s last name. We used our knowledge of authors and illustrators as well as the order of the alphabet to get the job done! We paid close attention to the first letter of the author’s last name and put them into order.
Before completing our daily calendar exercise, we counted by ten’s up to 100! Our two kindergarten friends counted aloud first before their younger peers joined in on the second round.
K.1.19: Learn and apply knowledge of alphabetical order (first letter) when using a classroom or school library/media center. (2006 standard)
K.NS.1: Count to at least 100 by ones and tens.
It was a morning full of exploration!
Max and Grady explored different inclines to see on which incline the car would travel the fastest. Max made a comment related to the speed of the car: “The blue car moves faster when I tip it like this!”
An art activity was made available this morning that got the attention of several friends! Each child got a printout of an egg. First, they painted shaving cream onto their egg before using eye droppers to add various water colors to their creation. Children used the eye dropper to drop big and small dots of water color onto their paper, waiting to see the different between each.
“Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.”
-Dr. Maria Montessori
Breakfast– Kix and PPC mango.
Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh apples, and PPC snap peas and cucumbers.
PM snack– Homemade banana muffins made by Anna and family (they were delicious: thank you!) with string cheese.
Wee Sprout– PPC snap peas and cucumbers.
Have a great night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 3/20