Good Afternoon!

K/PREK1: Last week, Miss Charlotte brought use several cartons of eggs! We love fresh eggs and enjoyed getting to see her. This prompted the book choice for today as we focused on non-fiction stories. We read ‘Chicken and Egg’ which taught us about the process of a chick being born and what happens inside of the egg. It takes roughly 21 days for a chick to hatch from it’s egg. Throughout those 21 days, there are red veins that are in the yolk which give the chick food and air to survive. A friend said, “Yeah, like our veins!”, and pointed to the veins in their arm.

As each friend was called to roll up their mat, first they took two dice and rolled them. They counted the white dots on each dice and had to say which dice had more dots. We used the following terms: ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘most’, ‘least’, and ‘one’.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, fairy tales, poems).

K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison, including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than.

PREK2 friends explored Montessori beads. After looking at them, they had to place them in order from smallest to biggest! Children were able to correctly place them in order from smallest to largest based on the area each square took up.

We brought a little nature inside today! Children were anxious to explore charcoal as they did a charcoal sketch of nature elements. After friends used the charcoal to sketch the still life, they used their fingers to shade. We talked about shadows that we observed as well as the different angels at which friends were looking.

“Scientists have recently determined that it takes 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain—unless it is done with play, in which case, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions!”

-Dr. Karyn Purvis

Breakfast– Corn chex and fresh apples.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat flatbread, fresh oranges, and fresh carrots/cucumber.

PM snack– Cottage cheese and whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/carrots.

Have a great evening.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 2/5