WF, 2/6/2020 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

In K/PREK1, we’ve been talking about different text genres. We’ve highlighted fiction, fairytale, and poetry so today, we read a non-fiction story that focused on the life cycle of horses. A few fun facts that we learned:

When a horse is born, it’s called a foal. It weighs around 100 pounds at birth and by the age of one, horses (or yearlings) weigh 700 pounds!
The tallest horses are about 7 feet tall.
Horses are herbivores and only eat grass, plants, and vegetables/fruits.

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

In PREK2, children focused on the equal sign and what that means. Each child was given a number and they had to use manipulatives to come up with the number that was equal.

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“I never pretend to know what kids will learn on any given day and, honestly, any teacher who does is either deluded or blowing smoke. No one can possibly know what another person is going to learn. You can hope. You can plan. You can lecture yourself blue. You can even, if you’re especially clever, trick someone into learning something, but the idea that one person can “teach” something to another, except under narrow circumstances, is one of the great educational myths.”

While I was searching through Teacher Tom’s blog this afternoon, this specific blog caught my eye. The notion that children can be taught something at any given time is interesting. Children learn from one another every single day and most of the time, children have to be ready to soak in facts or new skills but it’s no something that can be forced at this age.

“And still, despite my utter lack of “teaching,” the kids who come to our school are learning. How do I know? I watch them. I listen to them. I remember when they didn’t know and then I hear them saying and see them doing things that demonstrate that now they do. And even though I’m not teaching them, they mostly learn exactly what I want them to know.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/not-teaching.html