WF, 2/7/2019 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

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This week during K/PREK1 group, we’ve been exploring different text genres. As I pulled out our book for the day, ‘Engelbert the Elephant’, friends quickly commented, “That’s not real!”. A discussion started about what text genre this story would be from and after thinking for a moment, Lucy raised her hand and said, “Fiction!”. Throughout the story, we talked about how certain events couldn’t be real such as an elephant going to a ball with a queen!

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

In PREK2 group, children used square gems to solve greater than and less than problems. Miss Kim put an equation on the ground such as three gems on one side and four gems on the other. She put an alligator between the two sets of gems and told children that the alligator wants to each the bigger number. So, when it was Ruby’s turn, she turned the alligator mouth towards the group with four gems instead of one gem meaning that four is greater than one.

Our day is full of movement, peer interaction, concentration, questions, gross motor and fine motor, and several other activities that challenge us. At the end of the day, we leave with our cups full of happiness and satisfaction. HOWEVER, most times it is hard to talk about what we did during the day. On Monday’s, we’ll ask kids what they did over the weekend and most times, we get the response, “Nothing..”, even though majority of the time weekends were full of fun and engaging activities! Smile

I’ve blogged about this suggestion before but looking at the blog can elicit detailed stories about what kids did during the day. Children see a picture of themselves dancing with scarves and they’re able to recall when they were dancing to a given song and the feelings that they felt at that time. We try our hardest to take pictures of every kid during the day as this is a great way to get conversations going about daily activities.

Our days are often filled with playdough pizza, TV’s built with LEGOS, or a zoo created by a couple of four year old children. Talk about interesting story starters!