Happy Tuesday!
Today, we officially kicked off our newest asset to the our classroom: Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness Curriculum (MACK). In our classroom, social and emotional learning opportunities are always present. Our MACK curriculum provides us teachers with direct-teaching learning goals in 5 areas over a 12 week cycle, similar to our FAB’s.
As Tami was creating our MACK curriculum, not only were various resources added to our environment but she added more than 60 books that we’re able to pull from which cover our MACK topics:
- Mindfulness: Paying attention on purpose in the present moment with kindness and curiosity.
- Emotions: Recognizing and naming emotions in themselves and others.
- Acts of Kindness and Friendship: Defining and demonstrating kindness and exploring facets of friendship.
- Peace and Diversity: Celebrating the differences and similarities that connect all people.
- Gratitude: Learning about gratitude and recognizing things they are grateful for in their lives.
The books we’ve added to our environment for our MACK curriculum can be found on the blog! We’re thrilled to add this to our resources and our every day life here at Wee Friends!
We (Mindy, Kim, and Annastecia) can’t thank Tami enough for all of her hard work this summer to get the MACK ready for this Fall!
The MACK we’ll be focusing on this week:
MACK Week 1: Children will learn that mindfulness involves paying attention on purpose in the present moment with curiosity and kindness. Children will use their senses to describe what they are feeling and seeing in the world around them.
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In K/PREK1, we read ‘Yoga Bunny’ which went along with our yoga session that Franklin headed up!
Afterwards, we started talking about syllables and how we figure out how many syllables are in a word.
Each member of our group got to pick one word and we read it aloud together before they tried to figure out how many syllables were in their word. Once they did, they taped their word under the correct category.
Two ways we can figure out how many syllables are in a word:
- Chin method!: Place your hand under your chin and count how many times your chin moves when saying the word.
- Clapping method! Clap how many singular sounds you hear in a word. For example, ba-nan-a.
K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.
In PREK2 group, children used ants to cover individual pieces of food that were at the picnic! On Mack’s watermelon, he had to match the number that was present and place 10 ants on his watermelon. This activity focused on children’s one to one correspondence skills as they placed each ant on the picnic blanket.
A peak into the rest of our day!
Breakfast- Quaker Oatmeal Squares and fresh apple.
Lunch– Melted shredded cheese on whole wheat tortilla, fresh oranges, and fresh carrots.
PM snack– Raisins and whole wheat english muffins with cream cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a terrific evening.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 9/3