WF, 2/11/2020 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

We read ‘Listening to My Body’ in K/PREK1 which is a book from our MACK collection. We’ve been adding books that are relevant to this collection as the year has progressed. Listening to My Body focuses on one character that shares different experiences that he’s been through and how it made his body feel.

We talked about sensations that our body feels and completed a couple of exercises to see what sensation our body would get: rubbing our hands together quickly for twenty seconds and taking our index finger and lightly/slowly tracing the lines on our palm were two exercises we did. After we traced the lines on our palm, N shared “My hand tickles!”. Once we were done rubbing our hands together, Grady said, “My hands are warm and tingle!” This allowed children to share a story or two that they thought of that correlated to the experience we were reading about.

Afterwards, we talked about the story and different elements of the text. I wrote children’s answers down as they shared.

MACK: Children will practice strategies for managing strong emotions of their own and how to navigate the strong emotions of the people around them.

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g., characters, settings, or events).

PREK2 read ‘What Would Darla Do?’ which is another story from our MACK collection. Throughout the story, children can choose whether or not Darla makes a good decision or bad. Depending on what they choose, the end outcome will reflect those decisions.

I strolled through Teacher Tom’s blog yet again this afternoon and found a short article where I found a quote that struck a cord:

“This is the world of early childhood, a place where the most important things happen, not according to schedules we make, but rather according to the spaciousness of seasonal processes, developmental stages instead of more and faster deadlines; processes that are as old as humanity.”

“You can’t hurry the seasons, but you can count on them. There’s no place for more and faster when it comes to young children. When our butterflies are ready, they will emerge, and not one moment sooner.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/when-our-butterflies-are-ready-they.html