WF, 4/18/2019 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

We combined two of our favorite things in K/PREK1 group: animals and poetry! We read a book by Eric Carle where he combined the two. Friends got to pick an animal poem and afterwards, we talked about the animal and certain characteristics that the animal displays.

Science: K.4.2 Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different.

A few friends were quite helpful this morning as they helped Miss Kim make a special Thursday snack! They used various items to make the final product: trail mix!

Before lunch, we all got together to have an egg hunt. Each friend has a bag in their cubbie with four eggs. Throughout the egg hunt, we saw various social behaviors that we try to encourage each day:

“Mack, you can find your fourth egg! You can do it!”

“Oh here’s Lucy’s egg. I’ll let her be surprised and not tell her.”

“I hope that Grady’s able to find his fourth egg soon!”

Friends were encouraging their peers and exhibiting great team work!

Here’s a short Teacher Tom blog post to send us off to a long weekend.

How we talk to children matters. What we say matters. Being honest and truthful to children matters. I often find myself trying to correct what I’m saying so that I’m telling the truth. Instead of saying, “We don’t hit friends.”, I change it to, “I can not let you hit my friend.” There are times when friends exhibit behaviors because they need to hit something or use their hands in a certain way. “I see you need to hit something. We can go find something that’s appropriate to hit (a pillow for instance).”—sounds much more appropriate than “We can’t hit.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/replacing-false-with-true.html