Good Afternoon!

**Wee Friends Families— The symphonic choir that Melinda is in will be performing at Potawatomi Park at 7:00 pm on Saturday (August 25th). It will be outside and be held by the IU Art students so there will be dancing and music! If you’re free this Saturday, it sounds like a great activity for families!

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This week, we’re focusing on identifying and comparing the similarities and differences of families, classmates, neighbors and neighborhoods, and ethnic and cultural groups (Social Studies: K.3.6).

In pre-k/k group, we read ‘Here and There’. I got it at a Usborne book party (fantastic books!) but this specific book goes into detail about specific differences depending on the country that you’re in. Today, we talked about different ways to travel to school. Before we started reading, each friend answered the question, “How do you get to school?”. All friends shared how they get to school and we soon found out that majority of us have the same thing in common: we all take a car to get to school!

We started reading and soon found out that that’s not the only way to get to school. In Zambia, children have to walk miles to get to school, often having to walk over elephant paths! In Japan, children have to take several trains to get to school. Children often travel to school by themselves by the age of six! This made many of our children’s eyes get HUGE as they couldn’t imagine having to take several trains by themselves at the age of six! Other transportation options that we learned about were bus, bike, bus bike, cable car, horse, train, and canoe!

We talked about all of these differences that we saw as far as transportation and wrote it up on the chart as we recalled each one.

Several children wanted to journal this morning so after they got out a journal, children started drawing. Our younger friends are working on their name and learning the letters of their name/writing it too!

Maxwell and Chloe requested two math boxes this morning. Chloe worked on identifying shapes and matching shapes while Maxwell took the fruit that was in his box and sorted it.

Mack and Grady were busy all morning long building with trio blocks. Grady was a supportive, patient older brother as he helped Mack build several of his creations.

Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and PPC kiwi.

Lunch– Refried beans and shredded cheese on whole wheat flatbread, fresh watermelon, and fresh carrots.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and cheddar cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/21