Good Afternoon!
Children in the pre-k/k group are inquisitive about books. I can not get through a story without several friends asking various questions about the pictures or making comments about what’s going to happen next (this is AWESOME). Even though it takes a little longer to get through a story, it’s more meaningful and ultimately, children get more out of an experience where they can contribute and question anything and everything.
Today, we read ‘Ladybug Girl and the Best Playdate Ever’ which is a book that we’ve read before. Children immediately want to share their favorite part of the story or list different events that happened throughout the book. I use this as an authentic assessment to see how children are comprehending the books we’ve read and how specific the details are that they remember.
Once we were done reading the book, I asked our older friends to tell us one character that we learned about in the book. We were able to name all of the characters before talking about the setting of the book!
K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g., characters, settings, or events).
Our welcome activity was a measurement math box but we also identified which object had more or less cubes. This math box is also a great way for our fine motor skills to get a work out as the cubes are rather small as well as the boxes that they go into!
Miss Kim went downstairs and retrieved our fall/Halloween box which had several different manipulatives in it for us to explore. Using science tongs, we moved the manipulatives around our trays as well as put our imaginations on display. Some of the spiders ended up being poisonous! (our imaginations hard at work)
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
-Albert Einstein
Breakfast– Kashi Blueberry Clusters and PPC kiwi berries.
Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat flatbread, PPC pears/mango, and PPC green beans/cucumber.
PM snack– Cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and craisins.
Wee Sprout– PPC cucumber/pepper.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/2